matt, Author at Yukon GIS

Lightning Maps for YT?

Posted on 2017-Jul-17 by matt

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 […]

Data

Friendly ArcGIS model descriptions

Posted on 2017-Jun-01 by matt

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 […]

Geoprocessing, Tip

Adding old content, tracking what is ‘new’

Posted on 2017-May-17 by matt

To see articles that are new-to-the-site look at the Recent Changes page. I’m trawling through my archive of old articles, many never shared publicly, and […]

AlaskaMapped.org – end of an era

Posted on 2017-May-09 by matt

“Service end of life” – greeted me this evening as I visited, alaskamapped.org, a long time member of my hero list. They provided performant web […]

Data

How to debug definition queries in ArcMap?

Posted on 2017-Mar-07 by matt

Troubleshooting and debugging ArcMap defintion queries that go beyond a basic single statement can be very frustrating. Statements that work on their own easily break […]

How-to

Join Jeopardy

Posted on 2016-Nov-04 by matt

Joining a table to features is an incredibly useful tool. It saves on duplication and double (or triple!) data entry and lets us focus on […]

How-to

Elevation Mask

Posted on 2016-Nov-01 by matt

How to quickly mask a region based on elevation values without creating additional files to manage and store. At right is a sample of a […]

How-to

Fetching placenames from Canada Geographic Names Board

Posted on 2016-Aug-01 by matt

How to fetch list of all lakes with registered names from the Canada Geographic Names Board. Interactively http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/search Select “Water Features”, Yukon, and order by […]

Data

Projecting to Yukon Albers

Posted on 2016-May-24 by matt

Yukon Albers is the default projection for most Yukon Government data and projects. Here are 3 methods to get your data into that projection. InteractiveOne-at-a-time: […]

ArcMap, How-to