Re: [gdal-dev] proper way to get area of a lon/lat polygon

2020-09-18 Thread Mikhail Kruk
Yes, you are correct, that was one of my first attempts and was wrong because I don't really understand these projection systems. I now have a better one which sort of works and produces areas in meters by setting first system to sr.SetWellKnownGeogCS("EPSG:4326") Now I am struggling with selecting

[gdal-dev] proper way to get area of a lon/lat polygon

2020-09-17 Thread Mikhail Kruk
Hi! I am a complete GIS newbie so please bear with me... I am trying to get the area of a polygon specified in lon,lat pairs in some reasonable units, like sq kilometers. My quest so far is documented here: https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/374428/default-geo-spatial-reference-system-in-gd