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 […]
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A GIS geek since 1992 or so.
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 […]
Continue reading »Adding old content, tracking what is ‘new’
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 […]
Continue reading »AlaskaMapped.org – end of an era
“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 […]
Continue reading »How to debug definition queries in ArcMap?
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 […]
Continue reading »Join Jeopardy
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 […]
Continue reading »Elevation Mask
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 […]
Continue reading »Fetching placenames from Canada Geographic Names Board
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 […]
Continue reading »Projecting to Yukon Albers
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: […]
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