why would this be important for your application? if you’re trying to get an actual area of a polygon, you can always just calculate the area of a given bounding box or the simplified polygons provided by the API. if you’re not sure how to do that calculation, there are lots of existing tools that will do that calculation based on a geoJSON or some similar polygon definition.
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