id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc 2618 Use geodetic calculations from Proj 4.9 pramsey pramsey "As of proj4.9, geodetic distance and area on spheroid will be available from proj4 http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/84012/how-can-i-obtain-the-same-area-values-provided-by-the-census-for-tiger-boundarie The area in particular does not have failure cases around the poles or over the equator, so would be an improvement on the current code. Could also copy the code directly into liblwgeom for support on earlier versions of proj." enhancement closed medium PostGIS 2.2.0 postgis 2.1.x invalid