Usage

Area per each feature

  • It gets the area of each feature (Polygon/MultiPolygon) into a GeoJSON file and it will generate a new GeoJSON file with all features with an area attribute.
COMMAND REQUIRED DESCRIPTION
--geojson_input yes Path to GeoJSON to process.
--unit_measurement yes Unit of area measurement:
- square_meters: area in square meters.
- hectares: area in hectares.
- square_kilometers: area in square kilometers.
--geojson_output yes Path to GeoJSON output.

Return:

GeoJSON file - Each polygon/multipolygon feature in the GeoJSON file has an area attribute in the unit measurement selected.

Command line:

docker run --rm -v ${PWD}:/mnt/data developmentseed/geokit:python.latest geo \
    featurearea \
    --geojson_input=<INPUT_GEOJSON> \
    --unit_measurement=square_kilometers \
    --geojson_output=<OUTPUT_GEOJSON>

Use case:

  • Get the area in square kilometers of each polygon/multipolygon.

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