The basic process for putting your own data on GeoYukon is to format it in a simple text file and upload it to GeoYukon using the "Upload Data" section of the "File" tab in the advanced tools menu at the top of the screen.

This page shows how to use a spreadsheet of geographic points to create the text file suitable for uploading into GeoYukon.

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Step 1: Gather your data

You'll need to determine the latitude (north-south) and longitude (east-west) coordinates of your points in decimal degrees. These may be from your GPS, from another map, or maybe even from GeoYukon itself.

Here is a sample point in the Whitehorse area:

-135.14349	This is the longitude: 135.14349 degrees west. The negative sign means west.
60.74879	This is the latitude: 60.74879 degrees north of the equator.

Note that if your points are not already in decimal degrees, you'll have to convert them.

Here are three points in decimal degrees that we'll use to demonstrate putting data on GeoYukon. These are (near) junctions on the Alaska Highway.

-135.14349 60.74879	landfill road
-135.14004 60.74538	Fish Lake Road
-135.13465 60.74444	Ravens Ridge

In the table above, longitude is first, then latitude.

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Step 2: Put your data into a spreadsheet

Put your data into a spreadsheet with each point on a separate row, longitude first then latitude in separate columns:

Or you can download the sample spreadsheet file here: 3pts.xlsx . (Right-click and "Save as".)

(Actually, you could skip this step and create the CSV file shown in step 3 directly using a text editor. But managing more than a couple of points is usually easier using a spreadsheet.)

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Step 3: Save spreadsheet data to a CSV file

Once you have the points in your spreadsheet as shown, save the spreadsheet as a CSV (comma delimited) file using File, Save As, probably as the same name as your spreadsheet but with .csv file extension.

Or you can download the sample CSV file here: 3pts.csv . (Right-click and "Save as".)

If you open the resulting CSV file in a text editor, it should look like this... pretty simple with each point on a different row with longitude and latitude separated by a comma.

(If you want, you can skip the spreadsheet route and prepare a CSV file like this with a text editor. Be sure you give it a .csv file name. If you use Word for this, you must save your data as a plain text file (File, Save as).)

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Step 4: Upload CSV file to GeoYukon

On GeoYukon, go to the File tab near the top left of the screen, click "Upload Data." Browse to your CSV file and click "Upload." This will give you a Table Mapping Details box. Make these selections:

• Select "X Axis Column" to be Column 1.
• Select "Y Axis Column" to be Column 2.
• Leave the "Spatial Reference" as is.
• Unselect "Use first row as header."

The Table Mapping Details box should then look like this:

Then click "Confirm" you'll get a small Layer Details box that asks for the layer name. The default will be the name of the CSV file. You can type in whatever you want, e.g., "Test points on Alaska Highway."

Click "Proceed" and you should get a Table Record Results box saying that no records were rejected. Click "Done."

This will lead you to a series of dialogue boxes that will let you specify how your points will appear on GeoYukon. These can be either symbols with various parameters (colour, size, width, style) or images (many variations). Experiment!

Then click "Proceed" and your points will appear on GeoYukon. You'll see your points as a separate layer in the list of visible layers (menu on left). You can tinker with the appearance using the "Turn on/off layer visualizations" layer action for that layer. You access that via the [>] symbol to the right of the layer name.

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