SGID breaking changes from SITLA (3 min)

If you depend on any of the geospatial services from The School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA), you might have noticed that the services started having issues on the 5th of Octob

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

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

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

Introducing the Open SGID Database - A New Publicly Available Data Offering (4 min)

It seems so long ago now, but it was less than a year ago when we first hinted at the possibility of a new SGID offering (then again last fall). We are finally ready to announce the debut of a new ope

Automating Next-Generation 911 Law Enforcement Boundaries (3 min)

UGRC has created a Python script for law enforcement boundaries that automatically builds jurisdiction polygons based on existing boundaries (primarily county and municipal boundaries) in the State Ge

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

The SGID - Then and Now (8 min)

Access to high-quality GIS data is a privilege, and the fact that it's open and free is nothing short of amazing. Yes, I’m talking about Utah's SGID. From a local perspective, we’re all accustomed to

The Incredible Shrinking SGID (3 min)

Over the past several months, UGRC has been reviewing the usage of the State Geographic Information Database (SGID) data layers in order to determine how to most effectively be a steward of the state’