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 […]
Continue reading »Download Aerial Photographs from the Yukon Government image server
Go to the GeoYukon portal web app, Turn off all Operational Layers (optional), Turn on Base >> Imagery layers of interest (shows footprints) Zoom to […]
Continue reading »Lightning Maps for YT?
Wildfire season is upon us, albeit quietly in the southern Yukon, but not for those near us. This has me thinking of the primary cause […]
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Friendly ArcGIS model descriptions
Creating a decent Description for models and other tools in an ArcGIS Toolbox is a friction-full experience. The provided text box is tiny. If you […]
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