Geographic Information Systems

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialist is responsible for the planning, design, implementation and management of a corporate land and infrastructure information management system. The dissemination of information to others in the community, either within the City of Whitehorse, as residence or employees, and to those outside the City, is also an important goal.

City of Whitehorse Maps (http://ww3.whitehorse.ca/Maps/gmaps75.php)

If you just get a empty map window on start up click on the java icon in the lower left corner to switch to no-java mode. To use java mode you'll have to either download the plugin or enable it, or follow the instructions from this website (no guarantees, or responsibility by the City for any information presented or used) .

FireFox users: Tools > Options > Web Features

Features of the Map page:

- search for a street – zoom out to entire city first, select the street from the list at the bottom of the map – click Search

- search for a house number on a street – zoom out to entire city first, select the street and fill in the house number – click Search

- Wild life sightings – check the box beside “Wildlife Sightings” – click “Redraw Map”, then use the icon to draw a box around the animal’s picture for details, then scroll down)

- Bus schedules – use the icon to draw a box around one of the bus symbols – these are the “timed stops” – other stops (diamonds) on the routes do not have times

- Use Quick View drop down to goto any subdivision quickly – select the subdivision from the list

- 1 meter Ortho photos of the entire city ( from August,2001) - check the box beside the Ortho Photo (1 is at the top, 4 is at the bottom) then click “Redraw Map”

- Satellite image of the centre of the city ( from Sept 2003) – check the “Color Satellite Image” and then “Redraw Map”

- Lot information - use the icon to draw a box around a lot and more information on the lot will be displayed near the bottom of the page

- Some Lake and river names are available if you zoom in closely to it (so that the “Scale” is less than 10000)

- Printable Image – will give a new web page with an image suitable for printing

Movement:

- use the icon to zoom in close to a location (draw a box in java mode) -- Notice that zooming in will show more details as you get closer (more information is displayed)

- use the icon to zoom out from the centre of the map

- use the icon to recentre on the point clicked

- use the green arrows at the corners and on the sides to move in that direction

- click on the “Keymap” to quickly move to any point

More features coming later this year.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact,

Mike Merrett

GIS/ Database Specialist

City of Whitehorse

email: mike.merrett@whitehorse.ca

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