Yukon GIS « geospatial tidbits for and from the Yukon

A comet flies on by, and out

Posted on 2019-May-28 by matt

A response to Leaving the GIS industry: bye for now Alexey Tereshenkov has done more in 10 years than I have in 27, and what […]

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Fix labels on top of linework

Posted on 2019-May-08 by matt

Fix some labels-on-linework problems using Maplex Labelling toolbar >> Weight Ranking. I’ve been using Maplex label engine for years, but didn’t really pay attention to […]

ArcMap, Cartography

QGIS and Mapservices.gov.yk.ca #2

Posted on 2019-Jan-29 by matt

I’ve had this sitting in draft for over a year, waiting for me to come back to it and add missing details. That’s not going […]

Data, Qgis

QGIS and Mapservices.gov.yk.ca #1

Posted on 2019-Jan-29 by matt

I’ve had this sitting in draft for over a year, waiting for me to come back to it and add missing details. That’s not going […]

Data, Qgis

Spatial Data Summit – Oct 2, 2018

Posted on 2018-Sep-12 by matt

[Geomatics Yukon] would like to invite you to the 3rd Canadian Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Summit. Co-hosted by the Canadian Council on Geomatics and the […]

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Arcmap: no more jaggies

Posted on 2018-Aug-15 by matt

For smooth background images in ArcMap turn on Bilinear or Cubic Convolution. To make this the default, see “Arcmap >> Customize >> Arcmap options >> […]

ArcMap, Tip

Manually register a custom Esri DLL tool

Posted on 2018-Jan-23 by matt

The Imagery Workflows Team at Esri have an interesting Custom Raster Function tool that adds on-the-fly contour generation to the Image Analysis window in ArcMap […]

ArcMap, Tip

Have your Hillshade and Elevate it too

Posted on 2018-Jan-16 by matt

For years and years we’ve been using Shaded Relief a.k.a Hillshade images in order to visualize and assess the qualities and deficiences of elevation models. […]

ArcMap, How-to

Count number of vertices in all Feature Classes

Posted on 2018-Jan-16 by matt

I needed to get the number of points it takes to build all the lines and polygons in our admin boundaries. Here’s the python script […]

arcpy, Python

Download Aerial Photographs from the Yukon Government image server

Posted on 2017-Oct-14 by matt

Go to the GeoYukon portal web app, Turn off all Operational Layers (optional), Turn on Base >> Imagery layers of interest (shows footprints) Zoom to […]

Data, How-to