Introducing palletjack: Updating AGOL feature services from external sources (6 min)

Do you hate writing the same bits of code over and over again? Do you hate fixing the same thing again and again? Do you think "there's got to be a way to do that, but I don't have time to figure it o

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

Results Update: Detecting Cooling Towers with Computer Vision Tools (4 min)

If you were at the 2023 Utah Geographic Information Council (UGIC) Conference in May, you remember that I presented on . But my second use case, detecting cooling towers in aerial imagery for the Uta

Utah SGID Statewide Roads Data Layer Updates (1 min)

UGRC recently completed updates to the SGID Roads feature class. Please visit our data page where you will find information about the Roads data model, as well as direct download links to the SGID Ro

Utah SGID Statewide Roads Data Layer Updates (1 min)

UGRC recently completed updates to the SGID Roads feature class. Please visit our data page where you will find information about the Roads data model, as well as direct download links to the SGID Ro

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

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