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

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

A Brief Tutorial on Exploring the Open SGID with Open Source Python Tools (7 min)

The accompanying Python Notebook for this blog post can be found .The Open SGIDThe introduction of the has opened the door for new ways to explore Utah's GIS data. Before the Open SGID, a user would

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