Questions tagged [equal-area]
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Will I get the same area results using different equal area projections in QGIS?
If I want to calculate areas with $area in QGIS in metric units (sq. unit) of a vector layer containing polygons represented in WGS84 lat/lon, I must reproject the layer onto an equal-area projection. ...
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Calculate area of ellipsoidal polygon with QGIS
There is online service of GeographicLib, by Karney, where one can calculate the area of ellipsoidal polygon without need of reprojection.
Can one calculate the area of geometry in QGIS so as ...
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Accurate area calculation for countries worldwide individually [closed]
I have polygons of countries with its administrative divisions, I would calculate the areas of each division in a country accurately.
I got the bounding boxes for each country, then I divided its ...
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Geometric difference between equal-area and conformal projection
For simplification, let's have a source light for a map projection.
I know where to put the source light in order to get an orthographic, stereographic, gnomonic map projection, but I still don't ...
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Equal area projection of Antarctica ?
I was looking for an equal area projection of Antarctica, but it seems that the Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area (https://epsg.io/3974 , also called 102020 by ESRI) is deprecated because it is not a "true"...
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How can I use the Eckert IV projection with GeoServer WMS?
I'm trying to request a map in the Eckert IV using a WMS hosted by GeoServer. When I set srs=EPSG:54012 in my query string, I just get a sad XML response:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ...
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Equal area projection
In which projection I should project a polygon of a country to get the right area in the attribute table without a distortion? For example greenland
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problem converting OTF from Mercator to equal area
QGIS 1.8.0 on OSX 10.10.5: I've got continent outlines from Natural Earth that are in EPSG:4326 (degrees) plus USGS tree range data in EPSG:2030 (also degrees). When I set the project CRS to EPSG:4326 ...
