News Roundup – September 2025
How are planners and geographic information system (GIS) analysts working together to build more informed, sustainable and responsive communities? How can use cases help you implement your GIS strategy? How are drones and GIS working together to support disaster response, travel and retail? Learn more in the News Roundup for September 2025.
Feature Stories
Important Notice: Living Atlas items are moving!
Living Atlas items managed by Esri Canada are moving to a single ArcGIS Online account to help users easily find our curated content. You can find the list of items moving, along with their replacements layers, here. If you are using any of the items listed within your maps, apps or workflows, please transition to the replacement item to ensure you are working with the best available data. If you have questions or concerns, please reach out to our Living Atlas team (livingatlascurator@esri.ca).
EPN members: Unlock opportunities with the Esri Lead Generation tool
Exciting news for Esri Partner Network (EPN) members in Canada! A new lead generation tool is now available to you. Now, visitors that view your Partner Directory listing on Esri.com can connect with you directly. Find out how to activate the Lead Generation tool and get answers to your questions.
How use cases can help you implement your GIS strategy
You’ve defined a strategic roadmap for GIS at your organization; now it’s time to implement. But it can be daunting to try to translate strategic goals into discrete activities. In this blog post from Esri Canada management consultant Darren Sutton, discover how use cases can help you drive your GIS strategy with clear, goal-oriented activities.
Smarter together: Planners and GIS analysts need each other more than ever
No matter where you sit, collaboration between municipal planners and GIS professionals is where real community impact happens. By combining vision with data, and policy with spatial analysis, we can build more informed, sustainable and responsive communities.
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 Canada News
Esri Canada to showcase GIS innovation at ITS World Congress 2025
August 19, 2025
Esri News
Esri Releases New Guide to Managing Complex Utility Systems, Now and in the Future
August 19, 2025
Esri Releases Practical New Guide to Creating Visually Stunning and Effective Map Apps
August 21, 2025
Resources
ArcUser: GIS and drones bring a new dimension to land surveying
When heavy rainfall caused mud and trees to slide down the Pali Highway on Oahu in December 2023, access to roads in and out of town was blocked. A scenic 10-mile main thoroughfare also known as Hawai‘i Route 61, the Pali Highway connects downtown Honolulu to Kailua and fields thousands of drivers’ worth of traffic during the morning commute alone. Dudek, an environmental and engineering consulting firm, was able to jump into action using drones and GIS technology to quickly collect and share road conditions with government agencies, helping them unblock this critical route.
Read the latest issue of ArcUser online.
ArcNews: Tennessee migrates 72 counties from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro
The Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury (TNCOT) wanted every county it worked with to switch to ArcGIS Pro. Its staff have proactively worked with 72 county assessor’s offices—which have relied on ArcMap for more than two decades—to help them transition to the next chapter of trusted GIS technology.
Read the latest issue of ArcNews online.
WhereNext Magazine: Fast Four: Where Drones Mean Business
If you don’t think Walmart and a Colorado ski resort have much in common, you’re overlooking the growing popularity of drones in business. In this article from WhereNext Magazine, well-known companies in disparate industries reveal how they pair drones with GIS to enhance their connection to customers and improve operations.
Video: San Francisco International Airport
The San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is a bustling hub that serves over one hundred thousand passengers daily, operating non-stop around the clock. At the center of SFO’s operations is a cutting-edge dynamic digital twin, managed by a small and innovative GIS and BIM team. This team is at the forefront of integrating real-time information across their entire organization, paving the way for the creation of the groundbreaking Airport Integrated Operations Center (AIOC). The AIOC, which serves as a centralized hub of information, is designed to transform the passenger experience, delivering a seamless guest journey from start to finish.
Video: GIS for Prioritizing Habitat Restoration
In 2022, Resource Innovations helped the Government of Northwest Territories with their caribou habitat restoration efforts by creating a spatial inventory of viable sites and decision tree criteria to prioritize them. Using remote sensing techniques and suitability modelling in Esri software like ArcGIS Pro, the team mapped human disturbances within 10 kilometres of the all-season road network in the southern Northwest Territories as a pilot project.