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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…

An Introduction to Using GIS Data in Jupyter Notebook

| By: SSP Innovations

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,…

Getting Started With ArcGIS Online
Custom Web AppBuilder – Part 2

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: SSP Innovations

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: SSP Innovations

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: SSP Innovations

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…