The units are in whatever your geometry is measured in. If you want the area in meters you will need to reproject your geometry to meters. They have things called equal area projections defined for different parts of the world that are measured in meters.
Jody 2009/5/16 Rahul... हम पंछी उन्मुक्त गगन के <[email protected]>: > Hi Jody, > Can you tell me what is the unit of the area that is returned by the > geotools Polygon.getArea method? e.g. Udig's Information tool shows India's > area as 281.4591570149805 (without mentioning any units) in WGS 84. While > India's area is 156700 km². As WGS84 is a geographic projection so the units > are in Lat/Long. So, Can you tell me how will I get the area in > a specified units such as square-metre or square-foot? > > -- > Thanks, > Rahul > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Geotools-gt2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users
