Digital Maps - How Chance, Timing, and Heritage Shaped Modern GIS (24 min)

When you dig into the history of mapping, it's remarkable how certain things come about. If you zoom in far enough, you discover seemingly coincidental occurrences that ended up playing pivotal roles

Using Jupyter Notebook for UGRC Collaboration (4 min)

At UGRC we greatly value collaboration and sharing ideas. A terrific technology to support these values is project.Jupyter Notebook consists of a web application tied to an interpreter to execute cod

Meet Jake Adams - New UGRC Staff (4 min)

UGRC would like to welcome Jake Adams to the team! Jake will be using his GIS experience working with Cache County and Taylorsville City, as well as his Master of Urban and Regional Planning Degree, t

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

Thoughts from Teaching Google and Amazon New Skills (9 min)

Developing software for digital assistants is fun and a refreshing change from typical GIS projects. Over the past few months, UGRC was lucky enough to spend some time developing equivalent skills for

GIS Wisdom - Exploring the Reverse Approach (7 min)

Those of us working in GIS know that it's really powerful and that it's utilized in just about every industry. If you aren’t yet a true believer, you should check out this impressive .GIS technology i

The Western Grid, Explained (11 min)

Have you ever wondered why the patterns of development in the Western United States are so orthogonal (i.e., "right-angled")?Fig 1: 1891 Salt Lake City Bird's Eye View[^1]Pan around a map and you'll s

Creating New State Plane Zone for 2022 (2 min)

In 2022 the plans to publish a series of new horizontal reference frames that will replace the and a vertical reference frame that will replace the .The new horizontal reference frames are the:The n

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