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Thank you for explaining. When I set center of the sector in high latitude, the visualization of the geometry is stretched like part of a ellipse, I think that's the result of projection, does this stretching affects calculation of area?

Joe.M
– Joe.M

2025-03-02 14:32:36 +00:00
Commented Mar 2 at 14:32
You should not trust Cartesian area calculated in Web Mercator at any latitude, but especially at high latitude.

Vince
– Vince

2025-03-03 04:04:03 +00:00
Commented Mar 3 at 4:04

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