UGRC has been building successful and innovative web, mobile, and desktop solutions for a long time. We have a history and reputation for delivering high-quality, user-friendly, and reliable applications. We have a team of experienced developers who are passionate about creating solutions that solve real-world problems. Here are some examples of applications that range from simple to complex and display our ability to work with modern web development, target mobile devices, and take advantage of AI with computer vision.
Roadkill reporter
The Roadkill Reporter native mobile app allows people to easily report dead animals on or near roads, so those animals can be removed more quickly from highways and freeways by DWR , opens in a new tab and UDOT , opens in a new tab employees who have access to the data.
Technology
This Android and iOS application was built using React Native , opens in a new tab and Expo , opens in a new tab .
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PLSS monument records
Section corners in the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) form the foundation for all descriptions of private property and public land boundaries in Utah. All legal property descriptions start from PLSS section corner markers, also known as monuments. If you've ever seen a legal description of a parcel, a subdivision development, or even a service district or municipality, you may have noticed that the description and map always starts with a reference to a PLSS section corner. Keeping the correct, precise location of these corners accessible greatly reduces boundary discrepancies and disputes.
This web application allows surveyors to create an account to submit monument record sheets electronically. A standard form was created to unify the information collected. The application then notifies the county of the submission and the data is reviewed and subsequently incorporated into the PLSS data.
Data Origination
Licensed land surveyors perform the section corner location and monumentation, typically by setting a brass cap. The surveyor also completes a formal monument record sheet (a.k.a. a 'tie sheet') that is submitted to the appropriate county and state entities that preserve the record. Field notes from the survey may also be part of the required record.
Challenges
Each year hundreds of section corners that are used to determine property locations are in danger of being destroyed from land disturbances like new road projects, property development, and even conservation projects that rehabilitate vegetation after wild land and forest fires.
Urban development is expanding into many areas in Utah that have not been surveyed since the early 1900's. Historically, it has been difficult to quickly identify and protect the section corners that may be impacted, while not slowing down the desired pace of development.
Technology
This web application was written using React and UGRC Components , opens in a new tab . The mapping uses the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript with Discover base maps. The UGRC API , opens in a new tab is used to auto populate information based on location. It is deployed using GitHub Actions to the Google cloud and firebase.
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Atlas
UGRC offers many online services to facilitate the use of GIS and Atlas is a combination of most of those services. Atlas contains the complete and most current Discover base maps. Atlas also uses most of the UGRC Components , opens in a new tab . Clicking anywhere on the map makes http requests to the UGRC Web API to reverse geocode, search for the city, county, land ownership, elevation, and US National Grid of the point clicked; and display the results in the left panel. For UGRC developers, Atlas is a code base to keep improving its usage of React and the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript. Atlas , opens in a new tab is a GitHub template that you can use to create your own website.
Watershed restoration initiative
WRI is a partnership among state and federal government agencies, private and public landowners, and non-profit organizations with the purpose of actively restoring and rehabilitating Utah's diverse landscape and waters to promote healthy and resilient ecosystem function and biodiversity. Project origination and implementation occur at a local level, where there is the most direct knowledge of both the challenges facing an area of need, and the solutions to correct them. Five regional teams elect their own leaders; develop proposals across administrative boundaries; review, score and rank project proposals using a comprehensive prioritization score sheet; and assist their members with project implementation and management.
To facilitate this cooperative effort, a web application was developed to track the lifecycle of projects, summarize program metrics, and enable participation from team members throughout the state. UGRC's development team was a natural fit for the application due to the spatial nature of WRI project data.
Project Highlights
The WRI application was the first project to match UGRC and Utah Division of Technology Services (DTS) software engineers. UGRC built and integrated map functionality into DTS's Java, forms-over-data application by incorporating browser-based, desktop GIS style spatial data editing and analysis with complex business and topology rules. The partnership among the Division of Wildlife Resources, DTS, and UGRC to build and deploy the application proved to be successful, and award-winning.
Technology
This web application was written using Dojo. The mapping uses the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript with Discover base maps.
Environmental interactive map
One of the critical missions of the Utah Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) , opens in a new tab is to provide access to government records as conveniently as possible. The DEQ Interactive Map allows users to search for and download data regarding sites regulated by DEQ. This application is used by a wide audience of citizens and professionals and has proven to be of much value to DEQ to handle environmental information requests of basic to intermediate complexity.
The overall concept of the DEQ Interactive Map is to organize the data geographically and to integrate the data across divisions and programs. The interface was designed to allow searches by address, city, site name, DEQ program ID number or by zooming in on a map location of interest. The results are displayed on the map and allow access to site specific details. The search results return feature information for programs of DEQ and each of its divisions.
Data Challenges
The main challenge for this project has been trying to gather and standardize the wide variety of data sources so that they can be presented in a consistent manner within the application.
Technology
This web application was written using React. The mapping uses the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript with Discover base maps. It is deployed using GitHub Actions to the Google cloud and firebase.
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State parcel map
The parcel GIS data that UGRC standardizes are the most popular vector downloads on this website. The parcel viewer makes this data accessible to anyone with a web browser. In turn, it is one of the most popular web applications that UGRC offers. Not every county has their own parcel viewing application, so this application fills in the gaps. When a county does have their own web application, the parcel viewer displays a link to it.
Data Origination
The Recorders Office at the county level creates and maintains parcel data. The counties share the parcel data with UGRC on a schedule. UGRC standardizes the data into a common schema across all 29 counties.
Challenges
Utah contains 29 counties that uniquely handle parcel data. In order to create a statewide data set UGRC ETL's the county data into a common schema with common fields.
Technology
This web application was written using React and UGRC Components , opens in a new tab . The mapping uses the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript with Discover base maps. It is deployed using GitHub Actions to the Google cloud and firebase.