Introducing Masquerade (2 min)

Masquerade is a new proxy service hosted by UGRC that makes our geocoding service and Open SGID datasets easily accessible in Esri products. It does this by impersonating an Esri locator service. You

Is Your Home Close Enough to the Nearest Fire Station? (3 min)

Living close to a fire station can be noisy, but on the other hand, not living close enough can result in delayed, or even worse, inadequate fire service. The National Fire Protection Association (NFP

Python Shorts: The Benefits of Unit Testing (6 min)

In the realm of programming, "unit testing" is an automated way of testing small, individual "units" of your code to ensure that when given a specific set of inputs they return a specific set of outpu

Python Shorts: Flattening Arrow Code (5 min)

"Arrow Code" refers to a series of nested statements that increase your indentation level at each statement, creating an arrow of whitespace when the s are mirrored by accompanying blocks.While arro

Weaving the Fabric - Building Authoritative Geospatial Datasets through Collaboration, Relationships, and Data Standards (6 min)

Many Hands Make Light WorkIt’s been said that it took about 100,000 humans to build the Pyramids of Giza and a similar number to build the Panama Canal. Prior to the internet, large-scale collaboratio

Introducing the Official UGRC API Client (2 min)

Assigning a geographic coordinate to an address, otherwise known as geocoding, is one of the simplest ways to enable data to be visualized on a map. This makes geocoding a gateway to a Geographic Info

2020 Census Redistricting Data in Easy to Use GIS Formats (4 min)

Good news, 2020 census redistricting data is now available for Utah in easy to use GIS formats!In mid-August, the Census Bureau published the PL 94-171 Redistricting Data Summary Files from the 2020 C

Choosing the Right Transformation (8 min)

Modern GIS software goes to great lengths to automate the mundane tasks and hide the boring stuff from us. As a relative newcomer to the field, I've heard the old-timers talk about how spoiled we are

Introducing UGRCodes (3 min)

Are you tired of fighting with esoteric municipal FIPS codes? Have you even tried using them? It's not easy and it's certainly not intuitive. Five digit integer codes with minimal consistency and cont