News Roundup—July 2025
How is the Overture Maps Foundation tackling the biggest challenges in open data and digital mapping? How is the City of Kamloops transforming their GIS service delivery and documentation systems? How is Médecins Sans Frontières (translated as Doctors Without Borders) using geospatial tools to make better decisions about how to deploy resources? Learn more in the News Roundup for July 2025.
Feature Stories
Share your best maps with the GIS Success Stories program
Have you created a beautiful map using Esri technology? Share it with the GIS Success Stories program and we’ll share it with our audience of more than 70,000 GIS enthusiasts. No deadline; submit as many stories as you’d like. Submit today!
Geographical Thinking: Episode 104—Inside Overture Maps
Accurate, interoperable map data is the backbone of everything from navigation apps to emergency response systems. In this episode of Geographical Thinking, host Michelle Brake explores how the Overture Maps Foundation is tackling the biggest challenges in digital mapping—data fragmentation, inconsistent formats and lack of standardization.
Listen to the latest episode of Geographical Thinking here.
Location analytics cheat sheet: many ways to do spatial analysis in ArcGIS
Presenting a comparative guide to some ArcGIS tools that can help you understand more about position, area and size of things. Through spatial analysis, you can discover patterns, connections and trends in your geographic data.
What’s new in eCommerce at Esri Canada: ArcGIS Enterprise user types
What’s the most convenient way for Canadians to purchase ArcGIS Pro, associated extensions, ArcGIS Online user types, credits and premium apps—and, as of July 2024, ArcGIS Enterprise user types? It’s the Esri Canada Store. Discover purchasing options and new Store features.
Extending ArcGIS Urban with CityEngine: Generating Parcels & Subdivisions
ArcGIS CityEngine expands the parametric and generative planning functionality available with ArcGIS Urban and can support your planning work at scale throughout the planning process. This blog is part 1 of a three-part series focusing on different integrations between ArcGIS Urban and CityEngine. In this part, we explore how we can leverage CityEngine to rapidly generate new street networks, blocks and parcels at scale to support master planning and subdivision modelling work in Urban.
A new management approach improves GIS service delivery in Kamloops
If you manage the geographic information systems (GIS) function within a larger organization, you might have asked yourself, how do we streamline our GIS workflows so we can tackle anything that comes at us? How do we improve service delivery to other departments within the organization to improve everyone’s quality of life—not just our own? The City of Kamloops, BC has answered these questions by integrating its GIS function into its IT division’s service request and documentation systems.
Make better decisions on critical local government issues
Introducing the GIS Playbook for Local Government Leaders, featuring 70+ innovative ways to navigate today’s municipal, county-level and regional challenges using a geographic approach.
Esri News
Esri Launches ArcGIS for Autodesk Forma, Continuing its Partnership to Bring Spatial Data to AECO Industry
June 25, 2025
Resources
ArcUser: Nottingham’s Digital Twin Drives Urban Renewal
Nottingham City Council is meeting the challenge of redeveloping its city centre with an ambitious revitalization plan that includes new parks, office space and housing. Using a 3D digital twin built with ArcGIS Urban and other GIS technology, Nottingham planners are creating and sharing their vision for what the city centre could become.
Read the latest issue of ArcUser online.
ArcNews: For Doctors Without Borders, GIS Is Invaluable
For Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), translated to Doctors Without Borders, GIS is not just a mapping tool; it is the key to supporting knowledge management. MSF decision-makers rely on ArcGIS technology deployed across the enterprise to better understand what resources and assets MSF has and where they’re located, as well as what operations staff may encounter in the field and how MSF can help.
Read the latest issue of ArcNews online.
WhereNext Magazine: Fast Four: How Does GIS Help the Bottom Line?
GIS leaders at Verizon, Walmart and Steamboat Ski Resort explain what their businesses get back from location technology and geographic precision.
Video: EPN Partner Tales | Platte River Analytics
A discussion with Andy Bohnhoff, founder at Esri partner company, Platte River Analytics. Andy shares details of their work in AI, machine learning, data conversion, training services and more.
Video: GIS for Emergency Management
Incidents involving dangerous goods like flammable liquids can occur at any time and place. How are organizations preparing to respond to incidents like these? Emergency Response Assistance Canada (ERAC) relies on advanced geographic information systems (GIS) technology to help create response plans for its 320 members. From ArcGIS Survey123 to ArcGIS Dashboards, Arcade and more, Esri’s advanced GIS technology plays a crucial role in supporting ERAC's emergency management functions.