[android-developers] Re: Irregular Polygon Area Calculation in Android MapView

2012-08-09 Thread bob
A GeoPoint is a point. The area of a point is zero. On Thursday, August 9, 2012 11:45:07 AM UTC-5, ajmer singh wrote: > > Hi All > > I am working on an Map based android application where i want to calculate > the area of Polygon created by the Goepoint on the MapView, Please if any > body c

[android-developers] Re: Irregular Polygon Area Calculation in Android MapView

2012-08-09 Thread goodG
http://math.stackexchange.com/ In your case this is probably one of the best options that you have on the internet Il giorno giovedì 9 agosto 2012 18:45:07 UTC+2, ajmer singh ha scritto: > > Hi All > > I am working on an Map based android application where i want to calculate > the area of Poly

[android-developers] Re: Irregular Polygon Area Calculation in Android MapView

2012-08-09 Thread RichardC
This is complex problem even if your points are close enough together for you to assume that the earth is flat. You will need to check that the polygon is closed and non-self-intersecting. If you do this the formula is Wikipedia page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygon Note that the f