[Qgis-user] qgis vs grass

[Alister Hood]

> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:35:51 -0500
> From: "Jake Maier" <j.m at jmforestry.com>
> Subject: RE: [Qgis-user] qgis vs grass
> To: "'Noli Sicad'" <nsicad at gmail.com>
> Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Message-ID: <003e01ccff16$8e8a3f50$ab9ebdf0$@m at jmforestry.com>
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> Thanks Noli,
> That was exactly the advice I was hoping for.
> I write forest management plan, and work with some biologists on Natural
> Resources Inventories. I provide the mapping with a bit forestry
> consulting as a sideline.
> So I want to show drainage maps  or vegetation maps (airphotos or topomaps
> overlain with different shaded polygons).
> One important future goal is to show particular stands depending on
> information in the database. I also was hoping grass may provide better
> ways to calculate area. I need English system, acres. I think that is not
> provided in QGIS.
> 
> Jake

QGIS will report areas in the native units of whatever CRS your layers are in - typically meters or I guess feet.  But why would it be a problem to convert these to acres?  It should be easy.