Area measurements in square meter Completed
Hello,
I'd love to have an option to display the size of an area (polygon, area assignment) not in km² but in m² - makes life easier when building area assignments for dogs and fits more with the measurements our local dog teams are used to working with (Germany).
Is this possible?
Thanks :)
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This is now live on the website, app will follow with next release.
For our awareness, what are the scales you're usually working at that you would want expressed in square meters? It sounds like a reasonable request, but it also seems like typical search assignments in my area (0.25 - 0.5 square kilometers) would be translate to very large numbers of square meters.
Thanks for the feedback!
For dog area searches in forests, a single dog can searches roughly 25.000-30.000m². So the area sizes will vary between 25k and 300k m².
Alternative to square meters would be a (100m²) or ha (10.000m²), whatever would be easiest.
Thanks, that's an awesomely fast change!
Looks like till 10.000m² the area is shown in square meters and above that in square kilometres, is that correct?
Yes that is correct
Thanks!
But what I was mostly looking to was to get a higher precision when handling i.e. 25.000 square meters or 50.000 or similar, so smaller areas with 1-4 dogs (25-100k sqm). With the square km display, precision is down to 10ksqm - so the assigned area could be 20 or 30k sqm (or, if its rounded, it could be i.e. 25k-34999sqm).
Of course, this can be mitigated, but when i.e. searching for suicidal persons with small initial searching areas and branching out, having it displayed as sqm, ar or ha would save time. It would absolutely be fine to have this as an option (i.e. "metric" / "metric small areas" or similar).
We have made some changes that I believe will solve your issue. We use m² from 0-9999 m² then hectares from 1 to 249.9 ha then km² from 2.50 km² and greater.
Awesome thanks
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