Saturday, 7 February 2015

qgis - How to measure areas of features in OpenLayers plugin background maps correctly?


I can't figure out how to make areal calculations (eg. in km2). I have tried the 'field calculator', I have tried the 'measure area' function on the "attributes" toolbar, and i have tried fTools in the "Vector"-menu.


How I do:




  1. Open Qgis

  2. Add Google Hybrid Layer (OpenLayers Plugin)

  3. Find tenniscourt (should be 200-260m2)

  4. Measure

    • attribute toolbar->measure area - result: 65.060 m² hmm?

    • layer->new shapefile layer->polygon, save, "add feature" and drawing polygon. Then field calculator $area - result: 118.48828125

    • repeat with new shapefile - result: 4.05503328693158e-08

    • vector->geometric tools->export/add geometric columns = another random result





I can't figure out what I am doing wrong! For me it seems like there is some error in the program? I have tried saving the shapefile and opening it again in a "blank" project - same result - and new result every time?




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