https://webgis.usc.edu/rss/WebGISFeed.aspxPosts from the administrators of the USC WebGIS site relating to news items, service updates, and service outagesCopyright 2008 University of Southern California GIS Research Laboratory. All rights reserved.USC webgis services will be offline for major maintenance from 5/10 - 5/12.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=74May 09, 2011Service outage 12/19/2010 to 12/20/2010. All services will be down during this time for power grid maintenance.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=73May 09, 2011The web service API's have been upgraded to version 2.95. Users should migrate their code to use these new versions. A new version of the desktop client is available.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=72May 09, 2011Server maintenance is scheduled for 10/08/2010 from 3:00 - 5:00 Pacific. All services will be unavailable.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=71May 09, 2011The add partner credits form should be working properly now for registered partners.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=70May 09, 2011The database upload process has been moved inside the user account section of the website to enable more intuitive navigation.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=69May 09, 2011The USC WebGIS services will be unavailable from 10am to 2pm Pacific time on 3/30/2010 for server migration.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=68May 09, 2011All services will be unavailable on 02/26/2010 at 4pm pacific for about an hour.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=67May 09, 2011The web service API's have been upgraded to version 2.94. Users should migrate their code to use these new versions.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=66May 09, 2011The web service API's have been upgraded to version 2.93. Users should migrate their code to use these new versions.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=65May 09, 2011The web service API's have been upgraded to version 2.92. Users should migrate their code to use these new versions.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=64May 09, 2011All USC WebGIS API's have been updated to version 2.91. Please begin updating your scripts if you are using previous versions.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=63May 09, 2011The technical details of the USC WebGIS geocoding platform are available in a recently released report.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=62May 09, 2011All web service API's have been updated to 2.9. Users should update their web service calls to use this new version.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=61May 09, 2011All API's and batch processing operations now allow you the option of not storing your transaction details.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=60May 09, 2011We have added an API for programmatically checking how many credits are available in your account.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=59May 09, 2011The outage scheduled for 6/27/2009 - 6/28/2009 has been re-scheduled to start earlier 6/26/2009 5PM and end later 6/29/2009 8AMhttps://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=58May 09, 2011The USC WebGIS site and all services will be unavailable from 6/27/2009 8:30 AM Pacific - 6/28/2009 8:30 AM Pacific.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=57May 09, 2011A new service has been added that associates Census variables with coordinate datahttps://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=56May 09, 2011The geocoding API has been upgraded to 2.7.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=55May 09, 2011The geocoding API now returns Census 2000 variables and additional address fields.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=54May 09, 2011The API's for geocoding and parsing have been updated to support PO Boxes and ZIP+5's. Please update your code if you are using these API's.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=53May 09, 2011Service outage 03/13/2009 1-3 pmhttps://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=51May 09, 2011Server maintenance will require a reboot of the servers at 9 pm on 03/05/2009https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=50May 09, 2011Hung batch processes will be kick-started after 5 minutes.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=48May 09, 2011The batch database processing errors related to process deadlocks and thread aborts have been resolved.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=47May 09, 2011Sample input files are available for the batch database processing serviceshttps://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=46May 09, 2011Another HTTP API has been added for the geocoder to allow users to specify usage of advanced optionshttps://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=45May 09, 2011'A Geocoding Best Practices Guide' has been released by the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR)https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=44May 09, 2011The problem that was causing the batch processing service pages to crash upon loading has been resolved.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=43May 09, 2011The WebGIS geocode correction tool has been published in the International Journal of Health Geographicshttps://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=42May 09, 2011A credit system has been implemented to keep track of service transactions and allow commercial users to join as partners or purchase transactionshttps://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=41May 09, 2011Transaction credits can now be purchased onlinehttps://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=49May 09, 2011Another address parsing and normalization API has been added that allows output format specificationhttps://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=40May 09, 2011Server maintenance will require a reboot of the servers at 10 pm on 11/25/2008https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=39May 09, 2011Another geocoding API has been added that allows output format specification and additional quality informationhttps://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=38May 09, 2011The address parsing and normalization service is available as a web servicehttps://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=37May 09, 2011Separate RSS feeds have been created for each of the USC WebGIS notificationshttps://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=36May 09, 2011News and service updates and outages can be subscribed to on our new RSS feedhttps://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=35May 09, 2011User uploaded databases will be deleted automatically after 30 days.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=34May 09, 2011The USC WebGIS site and all services will be unavailable this upcoming weekend (11/7/2008 4:00 pm - 11/10/2008 9:00 am) while our network is segmented.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=33May 09, 2011A reminder that the USC WebGIS site and services will be down starting at noon Pacific today, 10/24/08, possibly lasting through the weekendhttps://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=32May 09, 2011A downloadable desktop client application for the USC Geocoding Engine has been released.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=31May 09, 2011The server move that will cause service outages scheduled for this weekend has been rescheduled to next weekend (10/24/2008 12:00 pm - 10/27/2008 9:00 am).https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=30May 09, 2011The USC WebGIS site and all services will be unavailable this upcoming weekend (10/17/2008 4:00 pm - 10/19/2008 9:00 am) while our data center is moved to a more secure and reliable location.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=29May 09, 2011The issues that were causing OutOfMemoryException's to be thrown when attempting to download large databases have been resolved.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=28May 09, 2011The geocoder and reference data sources have been upgraded to support our alpha implementation of Soundex matching. While the index is being built, geocoding will be slow.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=27May 09, 2011The polygon tracing and geocode correction interactive services have been upgraded to support all database formats that the rest of the site supports (access, access 2007, csv, and text delimited).https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=26May 09, 2011The notification email service has been activated to inform users or service updates, outages, and other informative messages.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=23May 09, 2011The issues that have been preventing Internet Explorer users from successfully logging onto the site have been resolved.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=22May 09, 2011The issues that have been plaguing the static address validation service have been resolved.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=10May 09, 2011The new database upload procedure adds support for new data formats including Microsoft Office 2007, CSV, and text delimited files.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=9May 09, 2011Server maintenance will be taking place causing a temporary service outage from 9:00-10:00pm Pacific on September 16th, 2008.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=8May 09, 2011Online documentation has been created and added for the database geocoding.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=7May 09, 2011Online documentation has been created and added for the polygon tracing tool.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=6May 09, 2011Online documentation has been created and added for the geocode correction tool.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=5May 09, 2011Online documentation has been created and added for the geocode correction tool.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=11May 09, 2011USC WebGIS outputs its 409,843rd geocode!https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=4May 09, 2011An address processing service has been added to the list of free services provided by USC WebGIS offering the ability to parse, normalize, and standardize a postal address.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=3May 09, 2011USC GIS Lab Researcher Daniel W. Goldberg presented the USC WebGIS Geocode Correction Service at the Annual Meeting of the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries in Denver, Colorado.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=2May 09, 2011A complete redesign of the USC WebGIS site has been undertaken to create a more user-friendly and consistent feel with the rest of the USC website.https://webgis.usc.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=1May 09, 2011