Geographical Thinking

“Our company history has been about digitizing the geography of the world. Once you have a digital map, you’re no longer limited to a globe or an atlas or a paper map. You have a digital model of the world. At that point, you can add layers of data to the map and understand far more.”

Alex Miller, President, Esri Canada

Mapannapolis is the 2021 subject of ESRI’s podcast, Geographical Thinking.

“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, award-nominated group that uses GIS to map structures, graveyards and churches to understand their community better. Guan talks to one of their founders, Heather LeBlanc, about how it works and what it means to the people living in one of the most famous parts of this country, the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia.”

https://resources.esri.ca/geographical-thinking/season-2-episode-4-mapping-history-in-nova-scotia

The screenshots above are from a Mapannapolis story-map which inventories heritage Annapolis County houses by time period. It is a multi-layered map, made possible by ESRI software. Find the map here.

Mapannapolis is fortunate to be associated with Nova Scotia Community College’s Centre for Geographic Sciences, Lawrencetown, Annapolis county, Nova Scotia. Our volunteers first learned to use ESRI map-making software there, ten years ago.