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I have a polygon on my map and I want to resize it in that way I add X km to all of the vertexes. Any idea?

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Resize relative to what? Adding N kilometers to the y dimension and the x dimension of every vertex will simply move the polygon farther away from the zeropoints of the x and y axes of the projection (for latitude, the equator, for example). – MappingTomorrow Jan 30 at 21:50
You do realise that for most polygons this will result in a modified shape? – lynxlynxlynx Jan 30 at 21:52
I want to do the same like this: obj.geometry.resize(2, obj.geometry.getCentroid() ); instead of 2 there will be x-km. I'm sorry for the misunderstanding... – user14734 Jan 30 at 22:17
Closely related: gis.stackexchange.com/a/29893. – whuber♦ Jan 30 at 22:31

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The spatial operation you need is called BUFFER and is implemented in most geographical database managers

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+1 for this answer... although a general question is, why don't you just redraw the polygon to the specifications that you want? – Andy TIce Jan 31 at 5:03
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if you use geodjango on server side, you can use buffer method in Topological Methods.

polygon.buffer(1000) # 1 km buffer for your polygon

i hope it helps you...

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