[Talk-ca] Yukon Mapping Protected areas

[Sam Vekemans]

Cool, so i take that as confirmation we can use it for OSM.
Awesome.

Its probably a bit early to be digging for gold (gps tracks from KTA
anyway) as its hard to find trails when the railway/ and/or
abandoned/telegraph trail line isn't mapped yet. And point of
reference is still difficult in black space.

I think that once these parks get mapped, ... canvec geobase.... we
will see more activity anyway.
... otherwise i'll need to bike up their myself... although i hear the
distance is a little daunting.

Thanks again,
I'll keep in touch for when i finish converting it all.  It will be
great to compare with the Aboriginal_lands areas that i already am
working with from geobase, and the data from Atlas of Canada

P.S.
Wow, yup NRCan is a BIG warehouse with many shelves.
http://clss.nrcan.gc.ca/data-donnees-eng.php

For the talk-ca list: you can see that the 'GeoBase - Aboriginal
Lands' is what user:Neskie started converting for BC, and i went ahead
and converted the rest.  (the tags are still debatable.. as always)
and so, PLEASE, if anyone is working on some of the other datasets,
please let the talk-ca list know about it, and update the wiki with
some kind of reference, there is ALOT  of data available, and i dont
claim ownership to it :-)  Anyone who has learned how todo the
conversion is free to jump in and help.  (As i do want these things
done, they are on my list ... but if others beet me to it, that's fine
by me)



On 5/12/10, Matt Wilkie <maphew at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> http://clss.nrcan.gc.ca/datalicence-licencedonnees-eng.php?rg=yt
>
> I don't know anyone involved in the KTA,or more likely I know people
> but I don't of their involvement. :) I'll ask around.
>
> cheers,
>
> -matt
>
>
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Sam Vekemans
> <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Matt,
>> cc:talk-ca
>>
>> Im working on getting the protected areas mapped for the area, but
>> dont see the .shp files in the NRCan set for the Yukon, i see it for
>> all the other provinces.
>> I do see the parks in the Atlas of Canada WMS, and that looks good,
>> there is about 5 or so, so i dont mind tracing. (the scale is 1:1mil
>> so i keep that in mind when tracing) these parks are rather BIG (like
>> small country sized)
>>
>> Would you know if there are more that actually exist, but are held in
>> the provincial set, and just not yet passed onto the National set?
>>
>> Also, (on another topic) do you know who is in charge of collecting
>> the trails data for the Klondike Trails Association?
>> The railway data might be out of date, so i'll be in Contact with
>> local mappers to see what is what.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sam
>>
>>
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