Hope to see you at this year’s Utah Geographic Information Council (UGIC) conference, April 1-5, 2013 at the Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Provo, Utah. Follow the action, most of which begins on Wednesday, on twitter using the hashtag#ugic2013 For more information: http://ugic.info/2013-ugic-conference
Read More »Just a quick note to let everyone know that the pre-rendered, super fast AGRC base map services got new names when they were ported to our new ArcGIS 10.1 server which went live March 1. 2013. Web applications were not impacted by this change, but ArcMap users will need to re-add the base maps to …
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AGRC is currently working with County governments to build a statewide address point dataset. To date, AGRC has collected over 846,000 address points from Counties, many of which received, through AGRC, address point development grant funding from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) within the US Department of Commerce. Later this Spring, AGRC will …
Read More »The National State Geographic Information Council (NSGIC) exists to 1) Promote statewide geospatial coordination activities in all states 2) Advocate for states in national geospatial policy initiatives that support a national spatial data infrastructure. Toward these objectives, NSGIC provides a number of valuable resources related to GIS coordination and policy that may be of interest …
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Geographic coordinates for Utah addresses can now be located using the AGRC’s ArcGIS Server-based apis. These are the same apis that are used by AGRC web applications. The geocoding-related apis currently include single address geocoding, bulk geocoding, reverse geocoding, route and milepost lookup. The apis and their parameters can be viewed and tested at api.mapserv.utah.gov. …
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In 2005, the Utah Legislature, recognizing the need to support highly accurate GPS applications for surveying, engineering, construction, and GIS data collection, passed into law UCA 63F-1-509 to fund the initial build-out of a real time GPS base station network. UCA 63F-1-509: • Created the Statewide Global Positioning Reference Network to improve the quality of …
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Maps on the Hill is this coming Monday, January 28, 2013 from 11:00am to 1:30pm in the Utah State Capitol Building Rotunda. Maps on the Hill is sponsored by the Utah Geographic Information Council (UGIC). Utah’s elected officials and the public are invited to come learn about the various mapping projects from professionals and students …
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The annual Salt Lake Valley GIS Day, which is sponsored by the Utah Geographic Information Council (UGIC) Education Committee, was held on November 26 & 28, 2012 at Salt Lake Community College’s Miller Campus. Over five hundred 4 -7 grade students from around the Salt Lake Valley attended the event. UGIC supplied bus grants to …
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On November 14, AGRC sent the first edition of a short-format newsletter to subscribers who signed up on the gis.utah.gov website. The newsletter features recent announcements, blog posts and other information relevant to Utah’s GIS and mapping community. To receive our newsletter, fill out the ‘Newsletter’ form found in the footer section of any pages on gis.utah.gov. The …
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The 2013 Maps on the Hill event will be held on January 28, 2013 from 11:00am – 1:30pm at the State Capitol Building. Maps are used in government, business, and education for a wide variety of applications. The Maps on the Hill event gives mapping professionals and students an opportunity to share their latest work …
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The Utah Department of Transportation was featured during the opening Plenary Session of the ESRI International User Conference on July 23. For those no familiar, the ESRI User Conference attracts 15,000+ GIS and mapping professionals every year to be part of hundreds of meetings discussing the use of GIS across all enterprises. ESRI is a …
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AGRC, in partnership with the Governor’s Office, the Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands, and the State Fire Marshal have released an interactive map of all fire restriction in the state of Utah. Previously, this information was being maintained in several different locations across federal, state, and local entities. With these willing partners and …
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Over the years organizations have approached the Automated Geographic Reference Center (AGRC) to post GIS or mapping-related job recruitments. We are eager to continue accommodating those requests. However, the mighty staff at AGRC don’t often know when those posting expire. So, to try and continue offering a single resource for GIS jobs in Utah, we simply plan …
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Twitter is a low commitment social media tool that can be great for professional collaboration and sharing. It allows users to quickly search and scan recent tweets (posts) for relevant information. And, the 140 character limit of Twitter’s ‘microblog’ format is just a starting point. Tweets can include URL links (usually shortened using a URL …
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The next few days mark an interesting time in the geospatial industry. As geo-guru Peter Batty noted, rarely do a couple of the world’s largest companies put maps at the forefront of their competitive strategy like they are this week. (“Finally, maps are relevant!”) Earlier in the week, well-placed rumors were headlining that as part …
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You are a combat-hardened, grizzled C# up and comer with a few years of coding experience under your belt. You’ve been using the .NET framework long enough to know the ins-and-outs of threading, reflection, generics, and lambdas. You’ve done a fair share of ASP.NET and know how to use AJAX and Javascript frameworks like JQuery …
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Scott Davis, AGRC Developer recently presented at the 2012 ESRI Developer’s Summit an a newly released application to help UDOT and the State Division of Wildlife Resources track wildlife-vehicle events (politically palatable term for “roadkill”). Last year a graduate student approached UDOT with an idea to better track wildlife-vehicle collisions across the state. After further …
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Mapping professionals and students were invited to showcase their projects for legislators and the public during the 2012 Session of the Utah Legislature. The goal of the event was to provide a platform for mapping professionals and students to share their hard work with Utah’s elected leaders. Maps on the Hill highlights the critical role that …
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Lieutenant Governor Greg Bell announced the launch of the Political District Maps website. The website will display interactive maps of the state house, state senate, state school board and congressional districts recently passed by the Utah State Legislature. The districts represented by these maps take effect on January 1, 2012, for electoral purposes and on …
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AGRC had an opportunity to update the Public Utilities and Technology Interim Committee on its recent projects. It was a great opportunity to bring some visibility to legislators on the work of AGRC as well as many of its agency partners and associates in digital mapping. The general theme was one of collaboration and AGRC …
Read More »For more than ten years, AGRC has supported activities across the state in support of GIS Day. GIS Day is principally sponsored by the National Geographic Society, the Association of American Geographers, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, the United States Geological Survey, The Library of Congress, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and Esri. In Utah, more …
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