> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:35:51 -0500 > From: "Jake Maier" <j...@jmforestry.com> > Subject: RE: [Qgis-user] qgis vs grass > To: "'Noli Sicad'" <nsi...@gmail.com> > Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > Message-ID: <003e01ccff16$8e8a3f50$ab9ebdf0$@m...@jmforestry.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > 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.
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