Last week, AGRC finished a substantial upgrade to the Utah statewide address locator (geocoding) web service. This service utilizes point- and road-based address map reference, data compiled into the State Geographic Information Database (SGID) from local sources, and published on a bi-monthly basis. The publicly accessible geocoding service allows developers to include ‘best effort’ Utah …
AGRC is currently working with County governments to build a statewide address point dataset. To date, AGRC has collected over 846,000 address points from Counties, many of which received, through AGRC, address point development grant funding from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) within the US Department of Commerce. Later this Spring, AGRC will …
The National State Geographic Information Council (NSGIC) exists to 1) Promote statewide geospatial coordination activities in all states 2) Advocate for states in national geospatial policy initiatives that support a national spatial data infrastructure. Toward these objectives, NSGIC provides a number of valuable resources related to GIS coordination and policy that may be of interest …
Geographic coordinates for Utah addresses can now be located using the AGRC’s ArcGIS Server-based apis. These are the same apis that are used by AGRC web applications. The geocoding-related apis currently include single address geocoding, bulk geocoding, reverse geocoding, route and milepost lookup. The apis and their parameters can be viewed and tested at api.mapserv.utah.gov. …
Hope to see you at this year’s Utah Geographic Information Council (UGIC) conference, April 1-5, 2013 at the Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Provo, Utah. Follow the action, most of which begins on Wednesday, on twitter using the hashtag#ugic2013 For more information: http://ugic.info/2013-ugic-conference
Just a quick note to let everyone know that the pre-rendered, super fast AGRC base map services got new names when they were ported to our new ArcGIS 10.1 server which went live March 1. 2013. Web applications were not impacted by this change, but ArcMap users will need to re-add the base maps to …
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Base map services in ArcMapAGRC provides several multi-scale base map service options that deliver pre-rendered base map tiles to your ArcMap session or to web app developers.
USGS scanned topographic maps (DRG’s)The SGID contains a complete statewide coverage of scanned standard series USGS topographic maps, also known as digital raster graphics (DRGs).
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The state’s network of permanently located GPS receivers across the state made possible through public and partnerships for real time high accuracy GPS positioning.