Over the past several years, SSP has been a leading voice in the utility and pipeline sectors of the GIS industry advocating for the use of available GIS technology to…

At last, upper management has approved your long-standing proposal to integrate GIS with an Enterprise Work Management System (WMS). Congratulations! You celebrate with your team, and then go back to…

Assemblies come up again and again when planning for and implementing the move to the UN. The decisions of what should participate in an assembly will get a lot attention—and…

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…

According to my logic in Part 1, the area a person can see from a random point in Montana should be greater than the area a person can see from…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…