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Anatomy of a Utility Network

By: Josh King

One of the great things about the Utility Network is how configurable it is. In fact, you can create your own Utility Network from scratch if you’re ambitious enough. Esri…

Where is the Wild West: Web Scraping, Data Science, and GIS using Jupyter Notebooks

By: Stephen Hudak

I am a fan of Western films. Those films captured the West with all the cool shootouts and uniquely western landscapes. Sure, they are romanticized but that is what I…

Pad-Mounted Single-Phase Transformers
– A Sample UN Model

April 9, 2019 By: Joaquin Madrid, Ph.D.

The purpose of this White Paper is to illustrate the make up and functionality of a sample Utility Network (UN) model of a Pad-Mounted Single-Phase Transformer. The model is implemented…

Unit Testing – The Basics

April 8, 2019 | By: SSP Innovations

The idea that you can write unit tests to test all scenarios seems like an impossible task. There is simply no way that you can cover every single possible thing…

Is Montana’s “Big Sky” bigger than your sky?

April 4, 2019 By: Stephen Hudak

Montana’s nickname is an exception to the rule. Big Sky Country is an idea that has always intrigued me. How can the sky be bigger over yonder than over hither?…

Esri Utility Network Management Extension – Gas Isolation Tracing

March 11, 2019 By: Clarke Wiley Tom DeWitte, Esri, Guest Author Tom Coolidge, Esri, Guest Author

With the upcoming release of ArcGIS Enterprise 10.7 and the recent release of ArcGIS Pro 2.3, the core tracing capabilities are being enhanced to include an isolation option. This addition…

Opening The Curtain on Code Quality

March 7, 2019 By: John Coleman

All code should be managed via source control and stored on a secure server. Source control is essentially code control. It allows developers to manage and track any changes that…

5 Interesting Facts About Streets

By: Stephen Hudak

It's hard to imagine a GIS professional who hasn’t had a lot of exposure to street data. These polylines have been included in almost every map we’ve made. When someone…

When a Legacy App Can’t Consume
Secured Esri Map Services

Esri’s ArcGIS Server was around long before we saw the full evolution into modern web GIS including ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise. Correspondingly, many third-party vendors built their own productized…

Survey123 Basics – Part 1

February 6, 2019 By: Josh King

Survey123 was first released around June of 2016.  The product’s goal is enabling seamless integration between ArcGIS and users of ArcGIS collecting data whether that be on the field on…

An Introduction to Using GIS Data in Jupyter Notebook

By: Stephen Hudak

Jupyter Notebook is an increasingly popular open-source web application used by all sorts of people for all sorts of purposes. It is an easy way to work with data programmatically,…