Always ask for the source files, not just the final product
I’ve been asked to make a map of the final admin plan for Dàadzàii Vàn (Summit-Bell) Territorial Park for Cabinet submission. So an important map […]
Continue reading »A comet flies on by, and out
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 […]
Continue reading »Fix labels on top of linework
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 […]
Continue reading »QGIS and Mapservices.gov.yk.ca #2
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 […]
Continue reading »QGIS and Mapservices.gov.yk.ca #1
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 […]
Continue reading »Spatial Data Summit – Oct 2, 2018
[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 […]
Continue reading »Arcmap: no more jaggies
For smooth background images in ArcMap turn on Bilinear or Cubic Convolution. To make this the default, see “Arcmap >> Customize >> Arcmap options >> […]
Continue reading »Manually register a custom Esri DLL tool
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 […]
Continue reading »Have your Hillshade and Elevate it too
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. […]
Continue reading »Count number of vertices in all Feature Classes
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 […]
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