Re: [Talk-ca] Yukon Mapping Protected areas

2010-05-13 Thread Matt Wilkie
Cool, so i take that as confirmation we can use it for OSM. Awesome. Yes, the parks and protected area data is free and libre, as is all the gis data from Environment Yukon found on the website. (Please note that the Wildlife Key Areas does have it's own license agreement.) Its probably a bit

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: Yukon Mapping Protected areas

2010-05-13 Thread Matt Wilkie
coffee and it does not carry the same weight as an inquiry). Best regards, matt wilkie Geomatics Analyst Information Management and Technology Yukon Department of Environment 10 Burns Road * Whitehorse, Yukon * Y1A 4Y9 867-667-8133 Tel * 867-393-7003

Re: [Talk-ca] Yukon Mapping Protected areas

2010-05-12 Thread Matt Wilkie
Hi Sam, 1000k and 250k parks data c.2008 is available from http://www.environmentyukon.ca/geomatics/govdata.html. There is an update pending for Old Crow Flats special management area Real Soon Now(tm). Surveyed protected areas can be nabbed from

Re: [Talk-ca] Mapping parks

2009-01-16 Thread Matt Wilkie
Yukon Parks Protected Areas data can be nabbed from http://environmentyukon.gov.yk.ca/geomatics/govdata.html cheers, matt wilkie Geographic Information, Information Management and Technology, Yukon Department of Environment 10 Burns Road * Whitehorse

Re: [Talk-ca] GeoBase and OpenStreetMap

2008-12-16 Thread Matt Wilkie
that can be addressed if there is a will to do so. cheers, matt wilkie Geographic Information, Information Management and Technology, Yukon Department of Environment 10 Burns Road * Whitehorse, Yukon * Y1A 4Y9 867-667-8133 Tel * 867-393-7003 Fax http

Re: [Talk-ca] Initial Test Areas to Import GeoBase

2008-12-11 Thread Matt Wilkie
to running conversion scripts if someone else can provide them, or a sample from which I can write my own. best regards, matt wilkie Geographic Information, Information Management and Technology, Yukon Department of Environment 10 Burns Road

[Talk-ca] Why import all of Geobase/Canvec?

2008-12-11 Thread Matt Wilkie
to more closely match the reality they see. I don't see the same potential value adding activity for natural features like hydrology, contours, satellite imagery, etc. Am I missing something? best regards, -- matt wilkie Geographic Information

Re: [Talk-ca] Why import all of Geobase/Canvec?

2008-12-11 Thread Matt Wilkie
easier to do that kind of calculation from a digital elevation model than contours. As for hydrology, by attitude would be, if it isn't much trouble to add, why not? The theme of my questions is based on the premise that it likely will be a lot of trouble. :) cheers, matt wilkie

Re: [Talk-ca] Canadian data - GeoGratis (and an accuracy rant)

2008-12-10 Thread Matt Wilkie
metre (in UTM coordinate space), as per the NTDB specification. matt wilkie Geographic Information, Information Management and Technology, Yukon Department of Environment 10 Burns Road * Whitehorse, Yukon * Y1A 4Y9 867-667-8133 Tel * 867-393-7003 Fax http

Re: [Talk-ca] mp2osm updating Wiki page

2008-12-02 Thread Matt Wilkie
. http://geogratis.gc.ca/geogratis/en/collection/detail.do?id=28954 -- matt wilkie Geographic Information, Information Management and Technology, Yukon Department of Environment 10 Burns Road * Whitehorse, Yukon * Y1A 4Y9 867-667-8133 Tel * 867-393-7003

[Talk-ca] Hello from the Yukon

2008-11-27 Thread Matt Wilkie
Greetings Everyone, My name is Matt Wilkie and I work for the Yukon Government, Department of Environment, and have a little familiarity with Geobase data. At least as it pertains to my region. Sam Vekhemans scrounged me up and invited me to participate in the discussion of importing Geobase