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Comfort and Disease; The Glorious Quest for a Supremely Useful Mosquito Map

August 3, 2021 By: Stephen Hudak

Maybe it’s a dumb ask, but shouldn’t there be a map that shows how bad mosquitos are? I can’t find one anywhere. Every map hits some specific data point like…

Selling Organizational Change Management Internally

June 30, 2021 By: Chris Spencer

When discussing Organizational Change Management (OCM), an organization leader may vocalize concern regarding what value the business will receive from adding OCM to their project scope. This conversation most likely…

A Case for User Acceptance Testing

By: Jason Brewington

SAT also known as Site Acceptance Testing (and often used interchangeably with System Acceptance Testing), can often be a repeat of Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) test cases. Often enough, it’s…

Making a Case for Moving Your GIS to the Cloud

June 6, 2021 By: Phil Dunn

If your organization has been discussing moving your GIS platform into the cloud, you are not alone. Cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform…

Esri Gas Data Management for ArcGIS Online

By: Brian McCormick

Esri recently launched an ArcGIS Solution for managing gas utility data in ArcGIS Online.  This is a pretty slick solution configuration and one that is definitely worthy of more than…

The Geographic Origins of 12 Common Food

June 4, 2021 By: Stephen Hudak

For most of us the origin of food doesn’t even factor into our lives. Modern supply chains and efficient global transportation has made an overwhelming variety of foods available to…

SOAP: Sending Clean Messages Between Platforms

May 11, 2021 By: Andrew Martin

Previously, on the topic of communication between multiple systems, we looked at methods of intercommunication between SSP Lifecycle Work and ArcFM™ Designer. In that article, we largely focused on direct…

Choropleths are Among Us

By: Martin Hughes

Ah, cartography – just when I thought I’d heard all the best words associated with you, another pops up to steal my attention away for another EA article. Whilst barreling…

American Toponymy

By: Stephen Hudak

Places in the US that are named after place-names in other countries but are pronounced differently have always bothered me. When I lived in Minnesota there was a New Prague.…

Thought Leaders Align – Welcoming Peter Batty to SSP

April 9, 2021 By: Skye Perry

Peter has now officially joined SSP Innovations as our Chief Research Officer (CRO) where he will work closely with our CTO, Adam Tonkin, as well as our two lines of…

Author a Successful Deployment

January 7, 2021 By: Eryle Bixler

Electric utilities are under increasing pressure to maintain the reliability and integrity of the electrical grid to ensure uninterrupted service to its consumers. With the increasing cost of performing many…

Vegetation Management

By: Eryle Bixler

On August 14th, 2003 the northeastern United States experienced the largest blackout in its history. The power outage extended from the northeastern states of New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey…