geoarea: Calculates the area of a given region.
In geo: Draw and Annotate Maps, Especially Charts of the North Atlantic

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Calculates the area of a given region to a given precision.

1 2	geoarea(data, Projection = "Lambert", old.method = F, ngrdpts = 2000, robust = T)

`data`	The region, should contain \$lat and \$lon.
`Projection`	Which projection is beeing used.
`old.method`	If true an older version of this program is used. Default is False.
`ngrdpts`	The precision of the calculation.
`robust`	If true a more robust method is used, default is True.

The area of the region given.

None

geodefine, geolocator, geoinside.

geoarea(island)         # Calculates the area of Iceland up to
                                 # an with default precision.

         geoarea(island,10000)   # Calculates the area of Iceland up to
                                 # an adiquite precision.

#         geoarea(geodefine(),10) # Calculates the area of a region specified
                                 # by the user.