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From the Developer Blog
Python Shorts: Loading an Open SGID Layer into pandas
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 progr...
Aggregating and Analyzing Point Data with H3 Hexes and Pandas
Introducing Masquerade
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 ...
Python Shorts: The Benefits of Unit Testing
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...
Python Shorts: Flattening Arrow Code
“Arrow Code” refers to a series of nested if statements that increase your indentation level at each statement, creating an arrow of whitespace when the ifs ...
Introducing the Official UGRC API Client
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 mak...