[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 90027] ENHANCEMENT: Draw: Measure area of shapes in the status bar and dialog

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90027

--- Comment #4 from putt1ck <cputtick at gmail.com> ---
One use case is probably pretty common: calculating the floor area of a room or
bit of land that is oddly shaped or contains fixtures that result in the area
being oddly shaped.

This is useful for example when working out how much flooring is required, or
the amount of fertiliser needed to maximise yield from a particular crop. You
would simply set the scale used on an imported graphic layer and then draw a
polygon over it.

As the original poster noted this is easy for regular shapes, but within Draw
it should be relatively easy to calculate the area within any closed polygon
(because it's routinely done in GIS, so the calculations must be well known -
could ask the QGIS devs how it is done).

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