News Roundup – November 2025
How can you lay the groundwork for a successful GIS program in your organization? How did communities across Indiana benefit from pooling their GIS resources to replace lead service lines? How are ArcGIS technologies helping communities deal with record-setting snowstorms in the northeastern US? Learn more in the News Roundup for November 2025.
Feature Stories
Important Notice: Living Atlas items are moving!
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Creating CommUNITY: Calculating Chance Encounters Using Tech
Placemaking is on the rise and has the potential to boost local economies, increase neighbourhood safety and accessibility, help reduce loneliness and social isolation, and create trust while bridging the gap between citizens and city builders.
Advance your team's GIS skills with prepaid training
Want to take your team’s geographic information systems (GIS) skills to the next level? The Esri Canada Prepaid Training Program offers a great option for enabling continuous GIS learning among your team in a cost-effective and convenient way. It’s about putting GIS training at your fingertips.
Laying the groundwork for a successful GIS program
If you want to increase the use of geographic information systems (GIS) as a strategic resource within your organization, there’s no better place to start than to build the visibility of your GIS program. But where’s the best place to get started? In this blog post, Esri Canada management consultant Alexandre Guy identifies three pillars to success that you can use as a place to start: an empowered GIS governance program, an informed leadership and intentional communication.
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
Edmonton Police Service leads creation of enhanced community safety system
October 30, 2025
Conservation leader Sean Southey to keynote the Esri Canada User Conference
October 29, 2025
Esri News
Esri Recognizes Partner Excellence in Serving Infrastructure Customers
October 28, 2025
Esri Signs Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS to Advance Generative AI in ArcGIS
October 28, 2025
Esri and UNFPA Extend Strategic Partnership to Support 2030 Census Round
October 22, 2025
Esri’s ArcGIS Maritime to Support Next-Generation S-100 Production Capabilities for Advanced Nautical Charting
October 14, 2025
Esri ArcGIS Location Platform Adds Session Usage Pricing for Basemaps
October 8, 2025
Resources
ArcUser: GIS Leads the Way for Indiana’s Lead Service Line Replacement
Communities across the state of Indiana are pooling their GIS resources to replace lead service lines. With a multidisciplinary approach that includes the use of ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Field Maps and other GIS tools, engineering consulting firm Abonmarche has been able to jump-start communities’ ability to meet service line inventory and replacement requirements and to secure and administer funds for the future of their lead service line replacement.
Read the latest issue of ArcUser online.
ArcNews: For Emergency Snow Removal, Surveys and Dashboards Prove Key
As a result of a record-setting snowstorm that dropped more than 100 inches of snow on Oswego County in four days in February 2025, the Oswego County Emergency Management Office activated its Emergency Operations Centre for 21 days to coordinate response efforts with local, regional and state partners. Central to the response was a real-time geospatial system powered by ArcGIS Survey123 and interactive dashboards built with ArcGIS Experience Builder.
Read the latest issue of ArcNews online.
WhereNext Magazine: A Clearer View of Business Continuity
Two companies are taking similar routes to environmental awareness—using modern technology to monitor and react to conditions on the ground.
Video: Esri UC 2025: Industry Perspectives / Reliance Jio
Learn more from Dr. Kundu, VP & Head of GIS at Jio Platforms, on how he's led one of the largest national-scale GIS deployments in telecom. Jio AirFiber uses 5G and unlicensed band radio to deliver gigabit broadband—without laying fibre—to millions across India. Jio mapped 100-million buildings with 1–2-m accuracy and modelled 3D structures down to floors, subdividing buildings into 3m grids.
Video: GIS for Water and Wastewater Management
The Region of Peel manages municipal services for its member municipalities, including a large network of water distribution and wastewater collection systems. To help taxpayers get the most out of each piece of infrastructure in the network while minimizing service disruptions, the Region developed the Region of Peel Decision Support System (DSS) using ArcGIS Online. The DSS allows Region staff to easily crunch data about infrastructure projects and plan and prioritize work.