Functions for spherical calculations #7105
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This adds
getLength()andgetArea()methods for doing spherical calculations on geometries. By default, the mean radius of the earth is used (from the WGS84 ellipsoid). And by default, geometries are assumed to be in Web Mercator. Both the sphere radius and the projection can be provided as options.Previously, spherical calculations used by
ol.proj.pointResolution()were using the radius for the Clarke 1866 Authalic Sphere. I'm not sure where this came from, but I think using the mean radius with WGS84 ellipsoid values is the right thing to do.Tacking these functions onto
ol.Sphereis awkward, because users never need to construct a sphere. It would be nice to haveol.sphereinstead. We can get rid of theol.Sphereconstructor and useol.spherein a major release. For now,olpackage users can still have nice things: