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How do I calculate the area of an irregularly shaped polygon?
Posted by: Christopher Fridlund
Date: July 27, 2010 05:57PM

Hi,

How do I calculate the area of an irregularly shaped polygons? I've got a MySQL database of polygons. My problem is that the polygons' points are made up of lat long coordinates. So, the AREA(@poly) function doesn't seem to work.

Any advice or suggestions?

Thank you.

-Laxmidi



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