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Featured Stories: Volume 8 No. 1

  • Leveraging Enterprise GIS at Hydro One
    Hydro One Networks Inc. owns and maintains Ontario's electricity transmission system and the distribution system that delivers electricity to homes and businesses. They do not generate power but transmit and deliver it to their customers, safely and reliably. Hydro One Networks is responsible for 97 per cent of Ontario's electricity transmission system and about one third of the province's distribution system. Hydro One standardized on the ESRI platform at the end of 2000, and has implemented a variety of GIS applications to serve the needs of their staff and provide greater efficiency in serving their clients.
  • GIS for Planning and Operations at the ADPC
    The Annapolis District Planning Commission (ADPC) is a corporate body serving the Municipalities of Annapolis Royal, Bridgetown and Middleton in Nova Scotia. The ADPC provides professional and technical planning, development and building inspection services to these municipalities and manages the web-based Centre for Land Information and Computerbased Knowledge (CLICK) GIS project.
  • City of Medicine Hat's Electric Utility
    The City of Medicine Hat is located in south-eastern Alberta, approximately 300 kilometres southeast of Calgary. The City of Medicine Hat Electric Utility generates, transmits, and distributes electricity to all customers within the City of Medicine Hat, Redcliff, Dunmore, Veinerville, and outlying rural areas adjacent to the City. The Medicine Hat Electric Utility has over 100 employees with a service area population of approximately 59,000, with 26,500 electric customers in their 195 square kilometre service area.
  • ESRI Canada's 20th Anniversary / ESRI Canada a 20 ans
    This year marks a major milestone for ESRI Canada as we begin our third decade in business. ESRI Canada was incorporated on December 27, 1984 and we began business on January 2, 1985. ESRI Canada was the third ESRI international distributor after Germany and Australia. Before ESRI Canada was incorporated the ESRI user community in Canada had grown to seven organizations - New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources, J.D. Irving Ltd., Fraser Inc., Forestry Canada, Lakehead University, Marshall Macklin Monaghan and the Nova Scotia College of Geographic Sciences. The first Canadian ESRI user conference was held by the fall of 1984 at the Delta Chelsea Hotel in Toronto with 20 users in attendance.

Cette année représente un jalon important de l'histoire de ESRI Canada puisqu'elle marque le début d'une troisième décennie en affaires. ESRI Canada Limitée fut constituée le 27 décembre 1984 et les affaires commencèrent le 2 janvier 1985. ESRI Canada fut le troisième distributeur international de ESRI, après l'Allemagne et l'Australie. Avant la constitution de ESRI Canada, la communauté des utilisateurs de ESRI au Canada atteignait le chiffre de sept organisations membres, à savoir le ministère des ressources naturelles du Nouveau-Brunswick, J.D. Irving Ltd., Fraser Inc., Forêts Canada, Université Lakehead, Marshall Macklin Monaghan et le Collège des sciences géographiques de la Nouvelle-Écosse. La première conférence canadienne des utilisateurs de ESRI eût lieu à l'automne 1984, à l'Hôtel Delta Chelsea de Toronto, à laquelle participèrent 20 utilisateurs.

  • ESRI Launches Developer Network Program
    On February 16, 2005, ESRI announced the launch of the ESRI Developer Network (EDN). EDN is an annual subscription-based program that provides software developers with the resources needed to build a wide range of custom GIS solutions.
  • The City of Kamloops - 3D Utility Data
    Incorporated in 1893, the City of Kamloops, British Columbia, is the major service center in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District (TNRD). Kamloops is situated in the heart of British Columbia's Southern Interior in a scenic valley at the junction of the North and South Thompson Rivers. Kamloops is the third largest city in BC outside the Lower Mainland with about 80,000 people residing within its municipal boundaries. Kamloops has an area that covers 315 square kilometers.
  • Bell Canada's 9-1-1 Mapping Application
    Bell Canada has built a strong 9-1-1 Service that is recognized internationally. Their 9-1-1 Mapping application is an integral component of a suite of applications making up the 9-1-1 services management system. The network based 9-1-1 Service hosts more than 12 million telephone numbers today and supports voice, call routing, and data display for emergency calls for more than 50 providers of telephone wireline and wireless services.
  • Geomatics: The City of Laval's Preferred Approach to Managing Infrastructure
    The City of Laval was created as a result of the amalgamation of 14 municipalities in early 1965. The City of Laval is located in the south-west quadrant of the province of Quebec. It is home to a population of approximately 365,000, based on 2004 numbers. Covering an area of approximately 274 square kilometers, the City is adjacent on its south shore with the City of Greater Montreal. Its northern boundary separates it from the cities of Deux-Montagnes, St- Eustache, Boisbriand, Rosemère, Lorraine, Bois-des-Filion and Terrebonne. Adjacent to the island on which Laval is located - on its western and eastern shores - are the Lac des Deux montagnes and the St. Lawrence River.

  • La geomatics; approche privilegiee pour la gestion des infrastructures de Ville de Laval
    La Ville de Laval, née d'une fusion de quelques 14 municipalités au début de 1965, est située dans le cadran Sud-Ouest de la province de Québec. Elle abrite une population évaluée à plus de 365000 personnes en 2004. Son territoire couvre une superficie approximative de 274 km² et est limitrophe avec la grande Ville de Montréal au Sud. Les villes de Deux-Montagnes, St-Eustache, Boisbriand, Rosemère, Lorraine, Bois-des-Filion et Terrebonne bordent la rive nord. Le Lac des Deux montagnes et le Fleuve St-Laurent fixent les limites Ouest et Est de l'île de Laval.
  • ArcGIS Network Analyst
    ArcGIS Network Analyst allows you to create and manage sophisticated network data sets and generate routing solutions. It is a powerful extension for routing, and will provide a new framework for network-based spatial analysis (i.e., location analysis, drive time analysis, and spatial interaction modeling). This extension allows ArcGIS Desktop (ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo) users to model realistic network conditions and scenarios. With the release of ArcGIS 9.1, set for the second quarter of 2005, the much anticipated Network Analyst extension for ArcGIS will be available.
  • ArcGIS Network Analyst
    ArcGIS Network Analyst permet de créer et de gérer des ensembles de données de réseau sophistiqués et de produire des solutions d'itinéraire. C'est un module puissant pour l'établissement d'itinéraires, qui fournira un tout nouveau cadre d'analyses spatiales à commande réseau (c.-à-d. analyse de localisation, analyse de la durée de déplacement et modélisation de l'interaction spatiale). Ce module permet aux utilisateurs de ArcGIS Desktop (ArcView, ArcEditor et ArcInfo) de modéliser des conditions et scénarios de réseau réalistes. Avec le lancement de ArcGIS 9.1 prévu pour la première moitié de 2005, le module Network Analyst pour ArcGIS sera enfin disponible.
  • GIS through the years at the Upper Grand District School Board
    The Upper Grand District School Board (UGDSB) stretches over more than 4,000 square kilometres of scenic southern Ontario countryside, and serves more than 35,000 students in 72 schools. In order to manage a jurisdiction of this size, the Planning department looked to GIS over 12 years ago to help analyze student distribution. UGDSB moved the data for this project from hard copy maps to digital format, which led to more timely, informative, and accurate results, allowing the department to create and adjust school attendance boundaries more efficiently. At the time, there were two GIS users and ArcInfo was installed on a single UNIX workstation.
  • Celebrating GIS Day
    Over 2000 students and members of the community attended the City of Thunder Bay's first annual city-wide GIS Day held at the Community Auditorium, November 17, 2004.