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Utah SGID Statewide Roads Data Layer Updates (1 min)
UGRC recently completed updates to the SGID Roads data layer. Please visit our Roads and Highway System data page where you will find information about the Roads data model, as well as a web service l
Utah SGID Statewide Roads Data Layer Updates (2 min)
Municipal Boundaries, Final update for 2023 (3 min)
Finally, the end of 2023 is here—another year of growth. Utah County again led the way with 16 annexations, followed by Weber with 10, Box Elder with 8, and Cache County with 7. Four other counties fo
Municipal Boundaries, Third quarter update for 2023 (2 min)
It seems like 2023 is flying by; We're already into October and fall is here. It has been a quiet summer for annexations, presumably most folks were dealing with the special election. Utah did have a
Municipal Boundaries, Second quarter update for 2023 (2 min)
We are halfway through 2023 and the annexations are slowing down. Hopefully that is not related to the flooding or the threat of. This quarter we got the latest (July 1, 2022) population estimates for
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, First quarter update for 2023 (2 min)
We begin 2023 with many cities jumping out to get a head start on the year with multiple annexation for them. Heber City led the way with four in three months. This put the state off to a good start f
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
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
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
SGID Product Relaunch Update (6 min)
In a June 2019 post “SGID Then and Now,” we touched on where we thought the SGID is going. Based on the survey responses from that article, we have changed direction in some areas and taken on new tas
2019 and 2020 Utah Aerial Lidar Acquisition - Updated (3 min)
UGRC has awarded Aero-Graphics, Inc. and The Sanborn Map Company, Inc. to acquire of aerial Lidar elevation data. The Lidar will be a combination of USGS Quality Level 1 (), 8 points per square meter
The SGID, Moving Forward (3 min)
In an effort to ultimately consolidate and organize as much State GIS data as possible, UGRC has been gathering information about SGID data layers managed by UGRC, and we are now reaching out to state
Statewide Lidar Plan for Utah (2 min)
To aid the planning efforts for future Lidar acquisitions in Utah, UGRC and the Utah Department of Natural Resources have collaborated with various local, state, and federal entities to create the fou
Authoritative Utah Geocoding Results (4 min)
Geocoding Assurance Why you should trust the resultsThe UGRC web api is a great resource for deriving information from the SGID. Geocoding an address is one of the more popular and useful free servic
USGS GeoPDF Topographic Maps (2 min)
Want an aerial photograph and a topographic map all packaged into one file, in a pdf format? Then the USGS GeoPDFs may be the answer. These GeoPDFs are similar to the 1:24,000 scale, legacy 7.5-minute
Wireless Signals and Lidar Derived Elevation Models (3 min)
Specialized software allows the modeling of cellular, radio, or wireless internet signal propagation and coverage. Better, more accurate results for wireless signal propagation depend on the precision