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