Re: [gdal-dev] Calculating polygon area

2013-05-28 Thread Tyler Mitchell
Did you get square degrees back? Project to a meter or feet based projection to get a measure more meaningful. Cheers, Tyler On 2013-05-28, at 7:14 AM, "Federico Jurio" wrote: Dear all, here I am with one question which I'm sure has such a simple answer that I already feel embar

[gdal-dev] Calculating polygon area

2013-05-28 Thread Federico Jurio
Dear all, here I am with one question which I'm sure has such a simple answer that I already feel embarassed in advance! Here goes anyway... I'm trying to calculate the area length on a GeoTIFF file using GetArea() method of OGRPolygon class and i'm not sure which is the unit that returns. This is