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Geographical Thinking from Esri Canada
Tune in for inspiring stories from thought leaders and GIS users across business, government and education in Canada. Get practical tips for applying geospatial thinking to tackle challenges -- from simple ones encountered in everyday life to the most complex issues our world faces today.
Episodes
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaCommemorating Canada's Defining Moments With ArcGIS Storymaps
Defining Moments Canada is a Canadian heritage organization dedicated to commemorating significant moments in our shared histories. In their efforts to engage…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaLeveraging GIS to Gather Input from Citizens for a Municipal Urban Plan
Edmundston, New Brunswick leveraged GIS to gather input from citizens for a municipal urban plan, an initiative they call Imagine Edmundston, Joining Guan Yue…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaGeographical Thinking Caps: I.M.G.D.B.
Lights! Cameras! Geo-Glory! This feature presentation of the funcast podcast goes to the movies. Join Maggie Samson and Michelle Brake as they guess film names…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaWhy can Uber find you but not 9-1-1?
Did you know that the current 9-1-1 emergency service was designed for the analogue phone system? It is undergoing a drastic change to support callers in this…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaQwhery: a voice interface for geospatial data
In many cities and towns, 311 provides residents, businesses and visitors with access to non-emergency city services. Matt Pietryszyn, CEO and co-founder of…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaGeoAI for damage assessment in the wake of a disaster
"Training artificial intelligence (AI) model requires massive amount of data and patience." says Maja Kucharczyk, a 2022 Esri Young Scholar Award winner and a…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaA living encyclopedia embodied in an online map
Átl'ḵa7tsem/Howe Sound is a UNESCO Biosphere Region just north of Vancouver, BC. It is a place where the mountains meet the ocean. Bridget John is the Program…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaManagement Perspectives: Finding success in potash mining
Jodi Derkach, senior manager of land and resource at Nutrien, talks about how "where" is the key to solving major challenges in Nutrien's potash business…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaManagement Perspectives: "We've gone from mappers to geospatial consultants"
Carla Evans, senior geospatial consultant and director of spatial information management and CAD and IM solutions with Golder Member of WSP's Ontario - Earth &…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaManagement Perspectives: How to Bridge the Digital Divide
Amar Singh, executive vice president of Infrastructure Ontario's (IO's) Commercial Advisory and Strategy practice, talks about the strategy behind increasing…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaGeographical Thinking Caps: That Makes Census
The last funcast podcast of 2022 looks back at 2021 - the 2021 Census of Population to be precise. Every five years, Statistics Canada invites Canadians to…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaFire-Fighting Cattle: Using Cattle and GIS to Reduce the Risk of Forest Fires in B.C.
Ranchers in BC are working with local officials to pilot an innovative wildfire mitigation project - using cows to graze on lands and lower the volume of…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaGeoview - A Digital Map That May Change the Delivery of Health Services
In Halifax, Dr. Ajantha Jayabarathan, a physician, is heading up a project to use GIS technology to help physicians across the province make better-informed…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaFor Remembrance Day - Mapping Sunken War Ships
We honour Remembrance Day with Paul Heersink who has been mapping the 20,000 ships that sank during World War II. His dashboard illuminates patterns and…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaHow the Toronto Humane Society uses GIS to address equity
Tegan Buckingham, Director of Integrated Marketing and Development at Toronto Humane Society uses GIS to better understand who adopts pets and how her…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaGIS app challenge for Foodbanks Canada
About 1 in 7 people in Canada do not have enough food to eat. A third of women heading households with children in this country are food insecure, as are a lot…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaA storymap of 19th century English clothing materials
"Clothing has never been created in a vacuum," says Sam Huckerby describing her storymap that connects the geography of the sourced materials for 19th century…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaGeographical Thinking Caps: The Domain Game
Domains are in our brains as the funcast podcast returns for some late summer fun. GIS nerds know that a domain is a list or range of valid values. Hear Dawn…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaMeasuring a website's carbon footprint
Developers Samuel Larsen-Disney and Yannis Panagis won first prize at an Esri Hackathon with DigitalFootprint.earth. It's a web application that estimates how…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaWhales, Drones and Maps
Marine biologist Dr. Vanessa Pirotta and location intelligence expert Brett Dixon discuss their collaboration to study humpback whales in the Pacific Ocean…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaThe future of drone delivery
Michael Healander, CEO of Airspace Link, talks about drone delivery technology and how robotic flight is improving efficiency in the logistics industry and how…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaGeographical Thinking Caps: Reach for the Top Five
Esri Canada's funcast podcast is back, and this journey to geo-glory will be taken five responses at a time. David Kossowsky and Jasmine Sohal battle each…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaDrone project in Matawa First Nations
Matawa is a tribal council that looks after 9 First Nation communities in northern Ontario. Their land covers an area more than twice the size of New Brunswick…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaA Coroner's Map
There are 180 cases of unidentified human remains in BC. These are cases that have been cold for years, some for decades. Ian Charlton, a spatial analyst with…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaA Conversation with Esri's Chief Scientist
Renowned oceanographer and Esri's Chief Scientist, Dawn Wright talked to Guan about her role at Esri, as well as the importance of GIS in ocean conservation.
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaSaving Ghost Fishing Gear
Twenty percent of the debris in the ocean is lost fishing gear. Leah Fulton's storymap 'The tale of lost fishing gear' won 1st place in a StoryMaps Challenge…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaTeam Rubicon Canada
Team Rubicon Canada, a volunteer team of veterans, first responders and tough civilians, uses GIS in their efforts to help the underinsured and the uninsured…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaManagement Perspectives with Matt Lewin
Ian Williams with the Toronto Police Service on how the police have evolved their use of GIS.
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaManagement Perspectives with Matt Lewin
Brad Connatty, Manager of Upstream GIS at Suncor Energy, talks about how the use of GIS and location analytics is evolving in the energy industry.
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaJournalism and GIS
News outlets now reach audiences using interactive maps, dashboards, podcasts. Amy Luft's an award-winning digital content producer with the CTV network. Hear…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaMapping in Canada
Helping indigenous and First Nations people build their GIS capacity cartographer Steve DeRoy of The Firelight Group, wants to indigenize maps…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaManagement Perspectives with Matt Lewin - Part 2 of 4
Paul Shaffelburg is in charge of the GIS and geospatial services at Halifax Regional Municipality. Hear how he spearheads new processes and solutions in a…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaManagement Perspectives with Matt Lewin - Part 1 of 4
Tune in to hear how the role of GIS in managing a big city's water has evolved over the last decade. In this special interview with guest host Matt Lewin, Esri…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaReaching Isolated Populations
To help our battle against COVID-19, public health's need for location analytics was obvious. Meet two members of the Esri Canada's new public health team in…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaGeographical Thinking Caps: List It or Lose It
We're making some lists and checking them twice. We're gonna find out who wins geo-glory! The funcast podcast returns with the ultimate game of knowledge and…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaHow GIS Helps Monitor Greenhouse Gasses
GHGSat - a start up in Montreal - owns the first satellites that detect greenhouse gases at the facility level. They use Esri software to present the results…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaThe history and the future of GIS
Alex Miller, President of Esri Canada, is a pioneer in GIS technology. He knows this subject in his bones and has travelled all over this country showing it to…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaFrom Habitat Conservation to Fundraising
"Geographic knowledge plays a role in nearly every decision we make at Ducks Unlimited Canada". When Guan saw this statement, she knew she needed to hear their…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaMapping History in Nova Scotia
Mapannapolis is a non-profit that maps local cultural history, but this is not a traditional group of historians. It is a silo-busting, cross-discipline…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaMonitoring Greenhouse Gases Using Satellites
GHGSat, a Montreal-based, leading-edge space and data technology company, is the first in the world to monitor greenhouse gases from space. According to the…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaGlobal Collaboration Beyond COVID-19
Dr. Este Geraghty is the chief medical officer and health solutions director at Esri. In Season 1, Episode 1 of the Geographical Thinking Podcast, she shared…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaA Geo-enabled Public Health System
Welcome back to Season 2 of the Geographical Thinking Podcast! Our first guest of the season is Dr. Este Geraghty, chief medical officer and health solutions…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaAdvice to young GISers
We have a Young Professional Network (YPN) for those starting out in this business. It encourages discussion amongst young professionals on how to grow…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaImagining the Industry's Future
We have a Young Professional Network (YPN) for those starting out in this business. It encourages discussion amongst young professionals on how to grow…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaThings They Wish They Knew Earlier
We have a Young Professional Network (YPN) for those starting out in this business. It encourages discussion amongst young professionals on how to grow their…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaReal Fake News, Eh!
Geographical Thinking Caps, our funcast podcast, is back! To celebrate Canada Day, Mark Ho welcomes Dan Mallett and Susie Saliola of Esri Canada to uncover the…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaMaking Geography Fun at Home for Children
Spatial literacy doesn’t need to be hard and complex as it sounds. Two parents made it into a fun family activity with their two boys mapping out their…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaStudent's GIS Work Wowed Judges
Skills Ontario runs a contest for high school students to practice their spatial analysis skills with the hope that they may use it professionally. Join Guan's…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaA Game Changer of Searching for Missing Children
Every year more than 40,000 children go missing in Canada. Less than one per cent are broadcast through AMBER Alerts due to its specific criteria and high…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaExplaining GIS to Others
When they hear "oh so you make maps", many GIS professionals just quietly agree, though they know it's not close to describing what they do or explaining the…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaA Family Doctor's GIS Story
Some patients travel more than two hours to spend 15 minutes with their family doctors. That's not unusual in Nova Scotia. How can geospatial technology help…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaThe Âhkameyihtamowin Project
It shouldn't be hard to find information on Indigenous role models or community successes. How about a vast number of them? Denali YoungWolfe, a PhD researcher…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaHow Safe Is Your Community?
If you could visualize the location of all crimes in your region, would you do anything differently to stay safe or make it safer for others? Debbie Verduga…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaChoose to Challenge
Caroline Arnouk, founder and CEO of OPA Technologies, decided to challenge the status quo of traffic closure planning while working for the City of Montréal…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaThe Future of GIS Professionals
What will the role of GIS be in the future? And what will this mean for GIS professionals? Guan chats with Chris North, director of technology adoption at Esri…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaMaking Poverty Visible for all
Centraide of Greater Montréal and United Way Greater Toronto released a special edition of their Radar—an innovative mapping tool—in response to increased…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaThe (Re)Creation of a Caring Community
Twelve years ago, Dovercourt Recreation Association decided to try something new by mapping the community they serve. What the maps revealed validated their…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaGeographical Thinking Caps: Ho Ho High Low
Geography is fun! In that spirit, Mark Ho hosts the first edition of Geographical Thinking Caps - our trivia-based funcast podcast. Join Erica Corbett and…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaTime for Deep Learning with GeoAI
How can Artificial Intelligence (AI) be applied to geospatial problem solving? Enter GeoAI. Join Guan as she dives into the power of GeoAI with Esri Canada's…
Geographical Thinking from Esri CanadaHow Getting from A to B is Changing
The pandemic has drastically changed personal vehicle use, public transit ridership and the role of curbside spaces in our cities. Join Guan Yue in our…