public double getArea(){
		/* This finds the area of a any polygon given 4 (x, y) coordinates in an array (gpsCoord[])
		 *  It was done this way because most lots are irregular polygons. http://www.mathopenref.com/coordpolygonarea.html
		 *  is a good resource for finding an array given coordinates.
		 */
		double area = (((gpsCoords[0] * gpsCoords[3]) - (gpsCoords[1] * gpsCoords[2]))  + ((gpsCoords[2] * gpsCoords[5]) - (gpsCoords[3] *  gpsCoords[4])) + ((gpsCoords[4] * gpsCoords[7]) - (gpsCoords[5] *  gpsCoords[6])) + ((gpsCoords[6] * gpsCoords[1]) - (gpsCoords[7] *  gpsCoords[0]))) /2;
		if (area < 0)
			return area * -1;	
		else return area;
	}