My QGIS project uses a .shp file of 179 districts in Tanzania. I wish to know
the area of each district in sq km but the Geometry-$area function (in the
field calculator of the Attributes table) only reports areas in decimal degrees
(whereas the individual area measuring tool from the toolbar
Am 13.09.2013 18:13, schrieb Wenban-Smith:
I have tried
converting the CRS from Arc 1960 to one the UTM ones but this did not
help.
You have probably used 'Set CRS for layer', but this is not a real
conversion. Change it back to Arc 1960, and try 'Save As ...' and select
the UTM CRS for the
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Emne: [Qgis-user] Query re: Area measures
My QGIS project uses a .shp file of 179 districts in Tanzania. I wish to know
the area of each district in sq km but the Geometry-$area function (in the
field calculator of the Attributes
Hi Hugh,
I did some work recently on the Tanzania 2012 Census District file from
downloaded from the NBS website plus the census data.
I converted the Arc60 lat/long file to a projected WGS 84 UTM zone 36S
file in QGIS, calculated the Geometry in sqkms then exported the file to
WGS84
