matt, Author at Yukon GIS

Objective: collect all GPS waypoints and tracks for the Tombstone hikes on YukonHiking.ca into a single map. (Prep: download the GPX files. Thank them for […]

Gdal-ogr, How-to

Unintended map art

Posted on 2021-Nov-07 by matt

Useless for it’s intended purpose but somehow interesting in it’s own right, maybe even beautiful. You’re looking at the outlines of 474 satellite images drawn […]

Cartography

Add a nodata mask to a read-only image?

Posted on 2021-Feb-19 by matt

I finally came up with a solution to the problem of how to deal with missing or inappropriate nodata in imagery that we can’t change […]

Data, Gdal-ogr, Tip

Goodbye ArcMap

Posted on 2020-Dec-05 by matt

my largest reservoir of sadness is held for those technicians and analysts and developers that, at each iteration, choose to opt out

Opinion

Yukon NTS Index

Posted on 2020-Nov-12 by matt

A commonly used dataset that’s not readily for available for download in ways I find useful is the Canadian National Topographic Series index for the […]

Data

Sooner than later, every GIS user in the territory will need to convert spatial data into our standard Yukon Albers projection and be presented with a dialog that has no less than 17 choices and wonder “What is the right choice??”.

ArcMap, Tip

Always ask for the source files, not just the final product

Posted on 2019-Jun-25 by matt

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 […]

Opinion, Tip

Author: matt

Go to Juneau in 3D in a browser

Using Layer & Map Packages outside of ArcGIS

Using spatial features from an ArcGIS online browser app in Pro

Merging gpx files

Unintended map art

Add a nodata mask to a read-only image?

Goodbye ArcMap

Yukon NTS Index

A map is worth ____ of words

Always ask for the source files, not just the final product