News Roundup – December 2024–January 2025
How is one teacher in Ontario connecting classrooms to communities using advanced GIS technology? How can innovative technologies, like data analytics and smart urban planning, help address Canada’s housing crisis? How can robust QA/QC practices and modern GIS tools help you streamline data accuracy and get ready for NG9-1-1? Learn more in the News Roundup for December 2024 and January 2025.
Feature Stories
Map of the Month: Bella Coola Tenure First Nations Layout May 2023
To see January 2025’s map of the month, scroll halfway down the page. You’ll see a map of Bella Coola Helisports’ tenure, located northwest of Vancouver, British Columbia, in the Coastal Mountain Range, which lies within the traditional lands of the Heiltsuk, Wuikinuxv and Homolco First Nations, the Laich-Kwil-Tach Council of Chiefs and the Da’naxda’xw Awaetlata Nation. The tenure covers approximately 14,400 square kilometres.
NEW—Share your ArcGIS lessons learned with the new GIS Success Stories program
As a member of the Canadian GIS community, you can help your fellow GIS professionals in many ways. One of them is to share what you’ve learned in the course of your work. If you’ve recently worked on a project using or related to Esri technology—whether it’s a static map, an app, a strategy or a solution—we want to hear about it. There’s no deadline, and you can submit as many stories as you’d like, so share your story today!
Geographical Thinking: Season 4 | Episode 26: 2024 Geospatial Reflections
As 2024 comes to a close, the Geographical Thinking podcast is taking a moment to reflect on 2024—a year filled with innovation, breakthroughs and unforgettable moments in the world of GIS.
Listen to the latest episode of Geographical Thinking here.
Empowering Vancouver Police: How GIS Modernized Patrol Operations
In the heart of Vancouver, a quiet revolution is transforming how police officers keep the city safe. The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) has taken a bold step towards modernizing its patrol operations, ensuring officers on the front lines have access to real-time intelligence—right when they need it most.
Gord Rasmussen receives Roger F. Tomlinson Lifetime Achievement Award
At GIS Day in Canada 2024, GIS pioneer Gord Rasmussen was honoured for his decades of leadership in expanding Calgary’s use of geospatial solutions to improve city services.
Cynthia Bettio honoured with Esri Canada’s Making a Difference Award
Ontario high school teacher Cynthia Bettio connects classrooms to communities using modern geographic information system (GIS) technology.
Building a Future: The Role of Technology in Meeting Housing Growth Targets
Canada is in a housing crisis, with skyrocketing prices and limited availability making safe, affordable housing a distant dream for many. In this blog post, we explore the complexities of the issue and how innovative technologies, like data analytics and smart urban planning, can help create sustainable solutions. Together, we can envision a future where every Canadian has a place to call home, but achieving this vision demands collective action and collaboration across all sectors.
Our gift to you: the ultimate view for organizing your data
Whatever you celebrate this season, unwrap the Data Engineering view to more efficiently explore and visualize your data. You deserve nicely organized data for analysis and mapping.
Measuring the outcomes of your geospatial strategy
Is your organization measuring and tracking the impact of your geospatial strategy? In our latest blog post from Allen Williams, Esri Canada’s practice lead of management consulting, Allen explains how key performance indicators (KPIs) are essential tools for guiding strategic impact. Taking a high-level approach to capturing benefits, Allen will walk you through actionable steps to help your organization drive meaningful results with a geospatial strategy.
Data Integrity in NG9-1-1: Essential QA/QC Practices for GIS Success
Is your GIS data ready for the demands of NG9-1-1? With increased responsibility on local authorities, data integrity has never been more critical. Discover essential QA/QC practices and see how tools like Esri Canada’s Address Manager can streamline data accuracy and readiness for NG9-1-1 compliance.
Mapping the future: GIS and the path to Indigenous Sovereignty
Indigenous communities are changing the narrative and elevating their stories with GIS—mapping historical injustices, asserting sovereignty and protecting cultural heritage. Self-determination in the context of data, ensures Indigenous knowledge is preserved for generations to come.
Esri News
New Esri Book Explores How Spatial Data Science Helps Users Understand Data and Make Predictions
November 18, 2024
Esri Releases 2024 Update of Ready-to-Use US Census Bureau Data for ArcGIS Users
December 18, 2024
Resources
ArcUser: Revolutionizing Access to Transportation and Supply Chain Services
Transportation and supply chain services provider Watco worked with geospatial IT services company and Esri partner GCS to move the company from spreadsheets to a spatially enabled process that helps its customers identify the best locations for railcar storage, transloading and industrial properties.
Read the latest issue of ArcUser online.
ArcNews: Transforming Fiber Network Planning with Reality Capture and ArcGIS
As providers deploy broadband more equitably throughout the United States, GIS is being used for network planning, design and deployment. Discover how telecommunications engineering company Geosolv is using an advanced reality capture platform from Esri partner GeoCam, along with ArcGIS products like ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, to help its clients tackle a proliferation of new infrastructure projects.
Read the latest issue of ArcNews online.
WhereNext Magazine: How Companies Monitor Biodiversity: Behind the Development of a New Tool
An app used by thousands of companies and organizations traces its roots to the 1970s and harnesses modern location technology to address a worldwide challenge.
Video: Esri Community Member Spotlight: Tari Martin
Tari Martin is the director of national and federal at the National Alliance for Public Safety GIS Foundation (NAPSG). In this article, learn how Tari and her colleagues inject GIS into the operations of public safety organizations across the entire US, boosting their ability to protect lives and livelihoods through data-driven decision making.
Video: Teaching with ArcGIS: Engaging students in community development
Meet Cynthia Bettio, a geography teacher at St. Katharine Drexel Catholic High School in Stouffville, Ontario, who teaches her grade 9 students how to design their community using Esri’s geographic information system (GIS) software, ArcGIS Online—the same technology used by the Town of Stouffville for planning and development.