geojson-area
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Calculate the area inside of any `GeoJSON <http://geojson.org/>`_ geometry. This is a port of Mapbox's `geojson-area <https://github.com/mapbox/geojson-area>`_ for Python.

Installation
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.. code::

  $ pip install area

Usage
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Simply pass a geojson string or python dictionary to the area function and get the area.

.. code::

  >>> from area import area
  >>> obj = {'type':'Polygon','coordinates':[[[-180,-90],[-180,90],[180,90],[180,-90],[-180,-90]]]}
  >>> area(obj)
  511207893395811.06

Test
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.. code::

  $ python test.py


Credit
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- `geojson-area <https://github.com/mapbox/geojson-area>`_