If you have access to ARCGIS software it would be pretty easy to do. Select your area, exclude oceans (-1 and under meters elevation - in my experience setting the measure at 0 winds up excluding a lot of land area), and query for area in whatever units you have set up to measure in.
The base-maps are available free from many sources (I have some sources collected here: http://writingfornature.wordpress.com/links-to-interesting-blogs/gis-and-mapping-resources/). If you don't have access to ARCGIS there are good free options, QGIS and GRASS being two good free examples. QGIS is a bit more user friendly. Good luck, On Monday, August 12, 2013, Abdel Halloway wrote: > Hi ECOLOG, > > I was hoping you could help me. I'm trying to determine the land area of > the New World and Old World separately within certain latitudinal ranges. > Is there some way of determining this? Any information will be helpful. > Thank you. > > Sincerely, > Abdel Halloway > -- Neahga Leonard *There is not just a whole world to explore, there is a whole universe to explore, perhaps more than one.* http://writingfornature.wordpress.com/
