<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - ENHANCEMENT: Draw: Measure area of shapes in the status bar and dialog" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90027#c4">Comment # 4</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - ENHANCEMENT: Draw: Measure area of shapes in the status bar and dialog" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90027">bug 90027</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:cputtick@gmail.com" title="putt1ck <cputtick@gmail.com>"> putt1ck</a> <pre>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).</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>