http://geoservices.tamu.edu/rss/WebGISFeed.aspxPosts from the administrators of The Texas A&M Geoservices website relating to news items, service updates, and service outagesCopyright 2012 Texas A&M University Department of Geography. All rights reserved.Users working on topics related to COVID-19 tracking, control, and prevention may request access to free and unlimited geocoding resources.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=92March 17, 2020By popular demand we have now added a mapping service for your data.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=91March 17, 2020This promotion has expired. We thank all the clients who took advantage of this promotion, the survey feedback was very valuable! Please be on the lookup for future promotions.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=89March 17, 2020TAMU GeoServices is hiring for multiple positionshttp://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=88March 17, 2020Funded MS and PhD Positions in Computational GIS available at TAMU GeoServiceshttp://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=87March 17, 2020We have updated our service API's to version 4.01. Please update your service calls as soon as possible to utilize these new features.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=86March 17, 2020The Texas A&M Department of Geography is hiring Undergraduate Student Technicians.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=81March 17, 2020The Texas A&M Department of Geography has two PhD Research Assistant Positions available.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=80March 17, 2020Texas A&M has applied to join the University Consortium for Geographic Information Sciencehttp://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=79March 17, 2020The WebGIS API's have been updated to version 3.01 to add additional fields and include national parcel data. API users should migrate to these new versions. Pre v2.96 will be disabled in 30 days, 2.96 will be disabled in 90.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=78March 17, 2020The USC WebGIS services will be moving to Texas A&M University in August, 2012. No service interruptions will occur.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=77March 17, 2020USC and Esri are partnering to host the First International Conference on Geocoding on 12/6 and 12/7 2011 on the Esri campus in Redlands, CA.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=76March 17, 2020The web service API's have been upgraded to version 2.96 to include Census 1990 and 2010 data. Users should migrate their code to use these new versions. New version of the desktop client(s) will be available soon.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=75March 17, 2020USC webgis services will be offline for major maintenance from 5/10 - 5/12.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=74March 17, 2020Service outage 12/19/2010 to 12/20/2010. All services will be down during this time for power grid maintenance.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=73March 17, 2020The 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.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=72March 17, 2020Server maintenance is scheduled for 10/08/2010 from 3:00 - 5:00 Pacific. All services will be unavailable.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=71March 17, 2020The add partner credits form should be working properly now for registered partners.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=70March 17, 2020The database upload process has been moved inside the user account section of the website to enable more intuitive navigation.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=69March 17, 2020The USC WebGIS services will be unavailable from 10am to 2pm Pacific time on 3/30/2010 for server migration.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=68March 17, 2020All services will be unavailable on 02/26/2010 at 4pm pacific for about an hour.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=67March 17, 2020The web service API's have been upgraded to version 2.94. Users should migrate their code to use these new versions.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=66March 17, 2020The web service API's have been upgraded to version 2.93. Users should migrate their code to use these new versions.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=65March 17, 2020The web service API's have been upgraded to version 2.92. Users should migrate their code to use these new versions.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=64March 17, 2020All USC WebGIS API's have been updated to version 2.91. Please begin updating your scripts if you are using previous versions.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=63March 17, 2020The technical details of the USC WebGIS geocoding platform are available in a recently released report.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=62March 17, 2020All web service API's have been updated to 2.9. Users should update their web service calls to use this new version.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=61March 17, 2020All API's and batch processing operations now allow you the option of not storing your transaction details.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=60March 17, 2020We have added an API for programmatically checking how many credits are available in your account.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=59March 17, 2020The 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 8AMhttp://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=58March 17, 2020The USC WebGIS site and all services will be unavailable from 6/27/2009 8:30 AM Pacific - 6/28/2009 8:30 AM Pacific.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=57March 17, 2020A new service has been added that associates Census variables with coordinate datahttp://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=56March 17, 2020The geocoding API has been upgraded to 2.7.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=55March 17, 2020The geocoding API now returns Census 2000 variables and additional address fields.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=54March 17, 2020The 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.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=53March 17, 2020Service outage 03/13/2009 1-3 pmhttp://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=51March 17, 2020Server maintenance will require a reboot of the servers at 9 pm on 03/05/2009http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=50March 17, 2020Hung batch processes will be kick-started after 5 minutes.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=48March 17, 2020The batch database processing errors related to process deadlocks and thread aborts have been resolved.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=47March 17, 2020Sample input files are available for the batch database processing serviceshttp://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=46March 17, 2020Another HTTP API has been added for the geocoder to allow users to specify usage of advanced optionshttp://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=45March 17, 2020'A Geocoding Best Practices Guide' has been released by the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR)http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=44March 17, 2020The problem that was causing the batch processing service pages to crash upon loading has been resolved.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=43March 17, 2020The WebGIS geocode correction tool has been published in the International Journal of Health Geographicshttp://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=42March 17, 2020A credit system has been implemented to keep track of service transactions and allow commercial users to join as partners or purchase transactionshttp://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=41March 17, 2020Transaction credits can now be purchased onlinehttp://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=49March 17, 2020Another address parsing and normalization API has been added that allows output format specificationhttp://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=40March 17, 2020Server maintenance will require a reboot of the servers at 10 pm on 11/25/2008http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=39March 17, 2020Another geocoding API has been added that allows output format specification and additional quality informationhttp://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=38March 17, 2020The address parsing and normalization service is available as a web servicehttp://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=37March 17, 2020Separate RSS feeds have been created for each of the USC WebGIS notificationshttp://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=36March 17, 2020News and service updates and outages can be subscribed to on our new RSS feedhttp://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=35March 17, 2020User uploaded databases will be deleted automatically after 30 days.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=34March 17, 2020The 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.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=33March 17, 2020A reminder that the USC WebGIS site and services will be down starting at noon Pacific today, 10/24/08, possibly lasting through the weekendhttp://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=32March 17, 2020A downloadable desktop client application for the USC Geocoding Engine has been released.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=31March 17, 2020The 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).http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=30March 17, 2020The 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.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=29March 17, 2020The issues that were causing OutOfMemoryException's to be thrown when attempting to download large databases have been resolved.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=28March 17, 2020The 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.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=27March 17, 2020The 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).http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=26March 17, 2020The notification email service has been activated to inform users or service updates, outages, and other informative messages.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=23March 17, 2020The issues that have been preventing Internet Explorer users from successfully logging onto the site have been resolved.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=22March 17, 2020The issues that have been plaguing the static address validation service have been resolved.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=10March 17, 2020The new database upload procedure adds support for new data formats including Microsoft Office 2007, CSV, and text delimited files.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=9March 17, 2020Server maintenance will be taking place causing a temporary service outage from 9:00-10:00pm Pacific on September 16th, 2008.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=8March 17, 2020Online documentation has been created and added for the database geocoding.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=7March 17, 2020Online documentation has been created and added for the polygon tracing tool.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=6March 17, 2020Online documentation has been created and added for the geocode correction tool.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=5March 17, 2020Online documentation has been created and added for the geocode correction tool.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=11March 17, 2020USC WebGIS outputs its 409,843rd geocode!http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=4March 17, 2020An 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.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=3March 17, 2020USC 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.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=2March 17, 2020A 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.http://geoservices.tamu.edu/News/Stories/View.aspx?id=1March 17, 2020