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AnnieG7

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how many acres in an area?
« on: March 30, 2009, 10:50:43 AM »
Hello Im new. I need to know how to determine the area of an irregular piece of land. I draw around the area and need to know how many acres are in it. Thank You
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Re: how many acres in an area?
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2009, 10:52:32 AM »
Use the draw tool to outline the area you need.  Right click and do 'save as...' to save out a GPX file.

Now go back to the "hand" tool mode and right click on the line you drew.  There's an option to 'compute area.'

Hope that helps.
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Re: how many acres in an area?
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2009, 11:06:45 AM »
Yahoooo  Got it thatnk you!!!!  Yippeee!!! 
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Re: how many acres in an area?
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2009, 01:05:51 PM »
What is an UTM zone?
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Re: how many acres in an area?
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2009, 01:09:21 PM »
A way of chopping up the earth and defining separate coordinate systems:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Transverse_Mercator_coordinate_system

There's a good map on that page that shows the zones for the US.
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