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Get the area of a shape

Written by Holly Conrad Smith

Use this when you want to calculate the area of a polygon within a flow, for example checking a lot against a minimum area planning control or computing coverage.

Category: Geometric Operations

Kind: Operation

Description: Get the area of a shape (in sq meters)

Inputs

Name

Abbreviation

Type

Access

Description

Feature

F

Feature

Item

The feature to measure the area of

Outputs

Name

Abbreviation

Type

Access

Description

Area

A

Number

Item

Thre area of the feature

How To

  1. Feed in a single feature.

    Can be directly from read feature, or from any operation that creates geometry.

    If dealing with Lists of geometries, use a map to get the area of each list item

  2. The output is a number reflecting the area of the geometry in square meters

    To convert to imperial, use To square feet

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