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Trailheads, a Collaborative Approach (4 min)
At UGRC, we serve up datasets from a vast array of sources. Some, like municipal boundaries, are created in-house. Others are pulled from a single steward, like the land ownership data maintained by S
Utah Crushes Broadband Challenge through Collaboration (5 min)
Among the many lessons the Covid-19 pandemic taught us, we learned two things about high-speed internet. First, high download upload speeds are necessities in the modern world. Second, figuring out w
Base maps: Out With the Old, In With the New (2 min)
It has been almost a decade since UGRC has updated the look and feel of any of the base maps but changes are on the way! The current suite of base maps were originally authored in ArcMap. These projec
Utah SGID Statewide Roads Data Layer Updates (1 min)
UGRC recently completed updates to the SGID Roads feature class. Please visit our Roads and Highway System data page where you will find information about the Roads data model, as well as direct downl
Municipal Boundaries Final update for 2022 (4 min)
It is the end of another long year and, ready or not, 2023 is here. It was another year of growth for the state which has slowed down some. The top contributors were Utah and Cache County once again w
Python Shorts: Loading an Open SGID Layer into pandas (3 min)
There are a myriad of ways you can access data from the Open SGID. However, these all require some form of desktop client application. What if you want programmatic access to our spatial data? Because
Aggregating and Analyzing Point Data with H3 Hexes and Pandas (10 min)
I recently discovered Uber's open-source H3 geospatial indexing system while working on a project with a lot of point data. This is a great tool for aggregating points into regularly-sized polygon geo
