Yukon NTS Index
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 […]
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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 »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 […]
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 »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 »Georeferenced Survey Plans
The federal government has plans for all surveyed parcels online as images, but they aren’t georeferenced. Here is a short recipe and dataset for fixing […]
Continue reading »Backdoor to US Seamless National Elevation Data
I recently needed to acquire a large swath of elevation data for Alaska. After fighting through the web map request interface for Seamless NED for […]
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