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Using Python for Data Project Setup and Data Cleanup

August 1, 2019 | By: SSP Innovations

While Python is commonly used in GIS to develop tools and automate processes, it can also be incredibly useful in another aspect of data handling: raw data processing. Data in…

A Match Made in Data Conversion Heaven

June 10, 2019 | By: SSP Innovations

The pairing of the Spec Doc and the Process Document are great assets to the QA/QC portion of any project. When all editors are provided with the same set of…

CRM Data Migration Using Jupyter Notebook and the Salesforce API

| By: SSP Innovations

A tutorial on migrating our homegrown CRM to Salesforce, using Jupyter Notebook. Giving you a good foundation if you find yourself in similar need of a CRM to Salesforce data…

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: SSP Innovations

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…

Esri Utility Network Management Extension – Gas Isolation Tracing

March 11, 2019 By: Clarke Wiley

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…

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…