Tabletop Roleplaying Games (TTRPGs) like Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) be used as team builders within the workplace, but they also can be used in analogies regarding the mapping process when…

It's hard to believe that the UN has now had a number of major production iterations, following along with ArcGIS Pro releases on 2.0 through 2.5 and many point releases.…

Symbology is often simply thought of as the graphic representations a map uses to indicate real-world objects.  Typically, this means symbolizing objects based on shared attributes.  However, an often-overlooked use…

Have you ever tried to initiate a large organizational change without the backing of management? I’ve done it and let me tell you: I sometimes felt like Sisyphus pushing that…

While writing this fiber blog, I had to think back almost 15 years to when I was an analyst at a utility and given the task of mapping out our…

If you've been paying attention to the evolution of the Utility Network for more than a few months, you've probably formed some opinions and expectations about what the platform and…

Exciting times around the SSP office as we engage in more and more implementations of the Utility Network! As the industry spins up the technology, we have been providing solutions…

Data and how it’s organized can impact all aspects of an organization’s mandate. As such, a decision to adopt a new data model, regardless of commodity, can be a daunting.…

This is a post about a place. A location on the Earth. A geography. A spatial locus. The arrangement of physical matter in a locale. Where, you ask? Unimak Island.…

If you haven’t noticed from the various LinkedIn postings and also the Jobs page on our website, SSP is hiring. A lot of new people have come on board over…

Migrating data into a Utility Network environment may seem like a challenging experience, but the process can be streamlined with Python. A recent project of mine involved taking data created…

Esri’s Utility Network allows you to model your electric and gas systems from the generator or gathering fields all the way down to a customer’s meter.  Having this connected model…