News Roundup – October 2024
How is Esri’s advanced GIS technology helping revolutionize the real estate industry? What methods and tools are researchers and Indigenous communities using to map unmarked graves at former residential school sites? How is a non-profit trail organization in Canada helping to steward over 29,000 kilometres of trail with only 50 staff? Learn more in the News Roundup for October 2024.
Feature Stories
Map of the Month: Retail Location 767—Target Group Distribution
In October’s Map of the Month, a retailer wanted to find its best growth opportunities without stealing business from its other locations. Environics Analytics overlaid trade areas for all the retailer’s regional stores and highlighted PRIZM target segments according to how much they typically spend at this retailer, and the types of products and services they use, based on historical customer data. To zero in on the target market, Environics narrowed the boundaries within overlapping areas to establish the most likely customers visiting the retailer’s target location. This map was originally published in the 2019 Map Calendar.
Geographical Thinking: Season 4 | Episode 19: Predicting Potential in Real Estate
Grab your maps and let's embark on a journey through the world of real estate innovation! In this episode of Geographical Thinking, host Michelle Brake interviews Sumaiya Siddiqi and Rachelle Siwy, GIS analysts from Colliers Canada. Together, we'll uncover how GIS technology is revolutionizing the real estate industry, from demographic analysis to future area projections.
Listen to the latest episode of Geographical Thinking here.
Uncovering the legacy of Indigenous residential schools through GIS
Dr. Sarah Beaulieu and Indigenous communities use high-accuracy location and mapping technology to map unmarked burial sites. This is one example of how GIS technology supports efforts at former residential school sites to uncover truths and advance Truth and Reconciliation across Canada.
The power of quantifying the impact of GIS in your organization
Summarizing the number of services, operational processes and programs that require GIS as a single statistic can help you raise attention at the executive level on the value and importance of GIS. In this blog post, Esri Canada management consultant Melissa Dick shares how one of her customers effectively summarized the impact of GIS for their operations in a single statistic, supporting their geospatial strategy’s success, and how you can do the same for your own organization.
A digitally powered trail: how Trans Canada Trail uses GIS to lead the way
Spanning 29,000 kilometres, the Trans Canada Trail is the longest multi-use trail system in the world. It reaches every province and territory and connects Canada’s three coasts. This growing trail system is stewarded by a non-profit organization, Trans Canada Trail, that has only about 50 staff. How do they operate so leanly? They equip staff with innovative mapping tools that allow them to have effective conversations and make confident decisions.
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Esri Canada News
City of Abbotsford to discuss tackling homelessness using GIS on Oct. 16
September 18, 2024
Esri News
Esri Releases New Book on Dr. Dawn Wright's Historic Challenger Deep Dive
September 4, 2024
Esri Book Breaks New Ground with Behind-the-Headlines Stories of People Using GIS to Change Lives
September 4, 2024
Esri Releases New Versions of Top-Selling Python Scripting for ArcGIS Pro Books
September 4, 2024
Esri Saudi Arabia and King Abdulaziz University Partner to Advance GIS Education and Research
September 20, 2024
Resources
ArcUser: Small Water District Achieves Compliance and Improves Operations
In 2022, the Littlerock Creek Irrigation District (LCID) in California began developing a new GIS program that would allow the district to comply with new state requirements while building an asset locations database and sharing location information with its operations staff.
Read the latest issue of ArcUser online.
ArcNews: State Transportation Department Boosts Emergency Response with ArcGIS Velocity
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation’s (MassDOT’s) around-the-clock traffic management centre, the Highway Division’s Highway Operations Centre, wanted to improve emergency response times and handle even more event information, including incident mapping, in the state. The Centre turned to the GIS team under MassDOT’s Office of Transportation Planning for assistance, and they in turn deployed ArcGIS Velocity to ingest, analyze and visualize real-time data. This has enabled staff at the Centre to see the most up-to-date information on state roadways across Massachusetts so that they can improve safety and better dispatch emergency personnel when needed.
Read the latest issue of ArcNews online.
WhereNext Magazine: Empowering Corporate Decarbonization: The National Renewable Energy Lab’s Innovative Approach to the Sustainable Campus
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) showcases innovative methods for constructing and managing low-carbon campuses of the future. Through a digital twin, NREL enhances interoperability and provides visualizations of energy use across its facilities.
Video: VolkerWessels: Pioneering Design to Construction Management with BIM & GIS
VolkerWessels enhances collaboration and accessibility to data across infrastructure projects through the Esri and Autodesk partnership by equipping their teams with a single source of entry into a project, a solution to aggregate critical data from various projects on a map, and extending access to information to the field.