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Getting Started With ArcGIS Online
Custom Web AppBuilder – Part 2

February 6, 2019 By: Brian Higgins John Sieben

In Part 1, we introduced the first partnering opportunity with our new sister company HydroMax USA. This initial project involved the replacement of HydroMax’s existing Trimble-based field survey data collection…

Tips for Migrating Fiber Data

January 16, 2019 By: Tim Battle

Now that you have made the decision to leverage GIS as your fiber repository, what are some of the pitfalls you may encounter in your journey and how do you…

Transitioning to GPS Data: Mapping and Posting Gas Facilities

We Energies, a company SSP Innovations provides gas work order posting services for, undertook the process to fundamentally change their data collection process from As-Builts and As-Laids to GPS. The…

Are You Ready for Migration to the Utility Network?

By: Dave Coates

The move to UN will be a substantial project which will require a lot of planning and a well-crafted roadmap for success.  There will also be a significant amount of…

Survey123 Design Considerations for Fast Jobs

December 7, 2018 By: Stephen Hudak

Survey123 is a great option for deploying field data collection, especially when it must be done fast. It would behoove the survey designer, however, to consider the ways in which…

Quality Control – Making a Difference in the Quality of Your GIS Data

November 2, 2018 By: Dave Coates

This is my third post about GIS data quality – in the first post I talked about the ever-increasing importance of the quality of your GIS data, which is necessary…

The Future of GIS – Part 2, Systems Integration

November 1, 2018 By: Skye Perry

This month we'll continue our series to review where a utility should be with GIS today before exploring where you should be focused to maximize your investment in GIS in…

SSP Welcomes Two New Senior Project Managers

October 15, 2018 By: Matthew Stuart

SSP is very pleased to welcome two new Senior Project Managers to the team, Brann Greager and Joe Paniccia. Recently we sat down with both to learn a little more…

Create Your Own Utility Network SDK

October 5, 2018 By: Bill Bott

Recently, we showcased a Utility Network web app sample written in TypeScript. Behind the scenes, we had created our own SDK or client in TypeScript. Let’s take a step back…

The Future of GIS – Part 1, In a Relationship

September 13, 2018 By: Skye Perry

The first post in a new series, we begin by discussing what a mature GIS looks like today. To do that, we have to start with the three most important…

Building an Effective
Data Quality Assurance Program

September 6, 2018 By: Dave Coates

A couple of months ago in my first post about quality, I wrote about Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) and what each of these means to me. Quality Control…