12,000 Dots on a Map. She Wasn't Alone.

You have your dream home—but constant noise pollution keeps you up at night, and the city’s 311 system offers no relief. What can you do? Ingrid Buday’s answer: start a citizen science movement. Ingrid is the founder of No More Noise Toronto, a federal not-for-profit organization that seeks to address noise pollution and its effects on human health, including hearing loss, chronic stress and sleep disruption, starting with better data collection. With no coding experience, Ingrid took an introductory geographic information systems (GIS) course and learned to use ArcGIS Survey123, a survey builder that lets you map the results. She built a community noise reporting tool connected to a live dashboard. As reports poured in, she watched the map update in real time, revealing where noise was at its worst. Now, Ingrid and her neighbours could actually see where noise was happening. Today, No More Noise Toronto has a map of 12,000 data points that visually illustrates the problem of noise pollution—and is uniting people under one movement. Learn more about tools that reveal insights through mapping at esri.ca.