geoarea 0.1.3

Calculate the area from latitude longitude coordinates list

geoarea

This is a fork from geojson-area (python). Calculate the area from lists of latitude and longitude coordinates.

Installation

  $ pip install geoarea

Usage

Simply pass a list of latitude and longitude

>>> from geoarea import area
>>> latitude_world = [-90, 90, 90, -90, -90]
>>> longitude_world = [-180, -180, 180, 180, -180]  
>>> area(latitude_world, longitude_world)
511207893395811.06

Test

  $ python test.py

Credit

• geojson-area (python)
• geojson-area

References

• https://trs.jpl.nasa.gov/bitstream/handle/2014/41271/07-0286.pdf