New features, improvements, and fixes across GeMS.
The assistant's attention briefing now lists only genuine problems: open critical or major findings, vegetation alerts, and spans below the clearance alert level. Inspection and work-order details are no longer included. Each sag row is coloured and labelled by the same clearance thresholds as the Sag panel, so a red row means the same thing in both places.
When an administrator adds someone from outside their organisation, the invitation email is now a GeMS message — who invited them, which organisation, and an Accept invitation button — instead of Microsoft's generic notice. Accepting still creates the sign-in the same way; if the GeMS email cannot be delivered, Microsoft's is sent so nobody is left without a link.
The code emailed to you to confirm an address now arrives in a GeMS message — the GeMS wordmark on a navy header, the code in a clear panel, and the sender's details in the footer — rather than an unstyled note.
Lists and panels with nothing in them now say why, and offer the next step — upload, create, change site or clear your filters — instead of a blank space or a one-line notice. Where a list fails to load you now see a message and a Try again button. Keyboard users can reach everything the mouse can: the upload drop zone, rows that open a detail view, collapsed-sidebar panels, and the map drawing tools (Esc cancels, Enter finishes). Buttons show a hover state everywhere, disabled controls are visibly greyed out, and the Control Center's Back and Forward buttons now move between its sections.
The Pointcloud Viewer now loads and colours point clouds the same way as Corridor Viewer. Files with newer projection information that used to load blank now display. Classes use the same colours as everywhere else in GeMS. Turning a file off and back on is instant instead of downloading it again. The colouring choice is the same in the side panel and the collapsed toolbar. Terrain and imagery have their own section in the controls. The Info, Distance and Height tools have moved to the toolbar at the bottom of the map, next to the assistant, as in Corridor Viewer. Corridor Viewer now shows each file's loading progress.
Height measurements now read the ground height from the elevation model itself, so they no longer change with the terrain height adjustment and don't measure to terrain that hasn't finished loading. In Corridor Viewer the tool is now called Height, since it measures any point's height above the ground, not only wires. Distance shows the straight-line, horizontal and vertical distance. Measurements are always in metres, even for surveys stored in feet. You can now clear one kind of measurement and keep the rest.
Click a selected span again, press Esc or use the × on Phase Detail to deselect it. The clearance marker now disappears when you deselect the span or leave Sag Analysis. Long span names no longer push the voltage and sag off the edge of the list, and the threshold sliders start at 0 m. Terrain and data warnings can be dismissed. View in AIM now opens Asset Inspection on the tower you were looking at, and going to a tower flies to the right height above the ground. The point-cloud colouring now stays correct while the sidebar is collapsed, and Powerline Highlight is now called Corridor Highlight.
When a sidebar is collapsed, click one of its icons to keep that panel open while you work on the map; close it with × or Esc. Moving the mouse toward an open panel no longer switches it to a different one when you pass over another icon on the way.
Settings has always offered a Default Landing Page, but it was never used — everyone arrived at the Portal. Pick a page there and that is where signing in takes you. Following a link to a particular page still wins, so a shared link opens what it points at.
An invitation sent from one GeMS environment could land the new user on a different one, or somewhere other than the Portal. Invitations now always open the Portal of the environment that sent them.
Upload Data buttons now appear only if your seat can actually upload. Previously, being able to open an app was enough to show its upload button, and the upload was refused at the last step. The Upload Data page itself now says so plainly if your seat has no upload rights anywhere.
AIM, Environmental Management and Learning now have a settings button at the bottom of the left toolbar, shown to people who manage that app for their organization. It opens all of the app's settings in one place. In Environmental Management that covers the instrument dashboard, Water Loggers and Birdsong; the dashboard settings have a site picker, so you can change another site's settings without leaving the page. In AIM it holds the Survey123 field capture setup for Maintenance Tracking. Learning's settings (reminders and certificates, daily jobs, groups and standing assignments) now open the same way from the button at the bottom of its toolbar instead of a separate page; who can see and change them is unchanged. The settings buttons that used to sit inside individual panels have been removed. Instrument dashboard settings now need the Environmental Management manage permission.
Site photos, 360 spheres and drone video are now available in AIM as Site Media, next to the other map tools. It shows the same library as Environmental Management's Media for the same site, as a gallery and as pins on the map, and you can add media from it. Photos for a tower's inspection are still added in Asset Inspection. Site Media also opens on its own page again, with a site picker. Moving between AIM and Environmental Management now keeps you on the site you were viewing: Environmental Management opens straight on your last site, and Change site picks another without leaving the page you're on.
In AIM, right-click a tower on the map to zoom to it, copy its coordinates, or open it in another AIM tool. In Corridor Viewer and the Pointcloud Viewer, right-click on or near a tower in the point cloud. Right-clicking only opens the menu; it doesn't change what's selected. Right-click menus are now also on Maintenance Tracking's tower and work-order lists, the Structure Lean list, Tower Editor's span list and Asset Inspection's work orders. A work order raised from a finding opens Asset Inspection on that finding. In Environmental Management, sensors, devices, fires, captures, instruments, media and layer features in the side panels offer the same right-click menu as on the map. LiDAR surveys can be opened in AIM's Pointcloud Viewer, and right-clicking an item in Site Viewer shows its details, zooms to it or copies its coordinates.
In Environmental Management, photos, 360 spheres and videos you add from Site Media now appear in the media sets and gallery on their own once processing finishes. You no longer need to reload the page to see them.
The upload wizard now has an X at the top right to leave it at any time, and once an upload starts the Back button becomes Exit. Leaving the wizard never stops an upload that has started; it carries on in the background and shows on the Progress page. In Environmental Management, Site Media, Gaussian Splats and Point Clouds now have an Add data button at the top of the left panel, as Overview does. Site Viewer no longer has its own site list in the left panel; switch sites with the site selector at the top centre, as in the other sub-apps.
In AIM, Maintenance Tracking's Calendar and Generate report buttons now sit in the toolbar at the bottom of the map, beside the GeMS Assistant. Generate report opens the report straight away with every work order you are looking at ticked; untick, search or filter by severity to choose which go in, then continue. The calendar shows every transmission line's work orders when no line is picked, and only that line's when one is, and its title says which.
The Corridor Viewer's mode buttons (Corridor, Vegetation, Sag, Lean, Inspection, Report) and its Info, Distance and Clearance measuring tools now sit in a toolbar at the bottom centre of the map, around the GeMS Assistant, as they do in Environmental Management. The measuring tools are now available in every mode, not just Corridor and Sag, and the side panels have more room for their lists. Across AIM, the GeMS Assistant now sits in this toolbar.
Import, Export and a new Report button now sit together at the top right of the Tower Editor map. Report produces a Tower/Span schedule for the line: every tower's structure number, type, condition, material, height, coordinates and connectivity, and every span's endpoints, length and voltage, ready to print or download as PDF, Word, Excel or CSV. With towers ticked in the list, it can cover just those. Export (N) on a tower selection now exports only the selected towers (and the spans between them) instead of the whole line. When editing a tower, Structure type, Condition and Connectivity status are now picked from a list of valid values, so a save is no longer refused for a value the database does not accept, and the Azimuth help now describes how the angle is actually measured.
A Skip to main content link now appears when you press Tab at the top of any page, and pages, side panels and the header are announced as distinct regions to screen readers. Sortable tables in the Data Explorer, LiDAR Patch Viewer and Site Viewer Data Table announce their sort order, and their column headers can be sorted from the keyboard. Abbreviations such as TARP, GISTM, InSAR and HNAP are now explained where they first appear (hover over or tab to the dotted underline), and detail panels say Coordinate system and Elevation model instead of CRS and DEM. Switching between maps and viewers repeatedly no longer slowly uses up memory.
Each browser tab is now named after the page it shows, for example Asset Inspection · AIM · GeMS, and course, question and Decision Support project pages include their name, so several open tabs are easy to tell apart. When you move around with the keyboard, the selected button, field or link now has a clearly visible cyan outline everywhere in GeMS. Actions that used to fail without any message, such as saving an alert subscription, an instrument or a TARP rule, now tell you what went wrong, and adding or deleting instruments, rules, layers, boundaries, questions and course steps shows a short confirmation.
Who can do what in Visual Assessment now comes from your seat, like every other app. An Editor or Engineering seat can author scenes in LVIA Studio — until now the Studio opened for them but saving was reserved for the SEM team. Deleting a scene, which removes every version of it, stays with the seats that manage the app.
Like Environmental Management, AIM now asks you to choose a site when you open it and remembers your choice. The LiDAR, Corridor and Splat viewers show only that site: they list the surveys and scenes assigned to it, plus any unassigned ones inside its area. The site name sits at the top of the map, with a Change site button; Asset Inspection and the Tower Editor still list every line, so the site name is hidden there. Links to a specific survey, tower or line open on a site that contains it. Uploading AIM LiDAR or a splat capture now requires choosing a site, including uploads sent to the Teams assistant, so new data always appears in AIM. The surveys you pick in the LiDAR Viewer also stay selected when you switch to the Corridor Viewer, and the other way round, and switching back to a viewer you already used shows its point clouds straight away instead of downloading them again. The Corridor and LiDAR viewers now highlight the Classifications button, and the All / Veg + Lines / None filter that is on, so you can tell when part of the point cloud is hidden. The Corridor Viewer tells you when an area has no 1m LiDAR terrain and is showing the coarser 30m terrain instead, and its vegetation panel is now labelled Vegetation Issues. In the Tower Editor inside AIM, a selected span's wires are drawn at their recorded conductor heights, as they are on the standalone editor. The Splat Viewer's quality slider is now a Detail slider (slide right for a sharper view). Scrollbars match the GeMS theme in Firefox too.
Map views captured for a report now include a legend, north arrow, scale bar, centre coordinate and capture time, so the figure makes sense on its own. The sag section now marks each span Alert, Warning or Info using the same thresholds as the Sag panel, with counts and a severity filter, and no longer leaves out spans that are missing a sag value. Surveys with no span data no longer report a transmission line length of 0.00 km.
When you upload several files at once, the Job Progress page now lists the files still waiting their turn, marked Queued with their place in the upload (for example, File 4 of 10). Previously only the file currently uploading appeared, so the rest of the batch looked missing.
A new Learner seat opens Learning and nothing else — assigned courses, your own transcript and certificates — for people who need training but no other app. The View and Edit seats are now called Viewer and Editor, in line with Reviewer and the other seat names; what they carry is unchanged, and nobody's access moves.
The Privileges page now shows, for every privilege, what it allows, which seats carry it and which apps it opens. The catalogue ships with the application and is kept in step on every release, so there is nothing to add or edit by hand.
A seat set to expire on a date stays usable until the end of that day in your own timezone. Today can be chosen, and the Activity log is open to the SEM team rather than platform administrators alone.
SEM can now widen or narrow a business's app entitlements from its Overview, not only when the business is created. Removing an app switches off that app's privileges for every seat in the business at once; seats and counts are kept, so restoring it restores everything.
People are added to a business on a seat (View, Edit, Engineering, Field worker, Reviewer, Client Admin, or a seat type SEM authored for you), and the seat decides what they can do. Users and My Team add, re-seat and remove members directly; My Access shows the seats you hold and what each opens. The Request Access and Approvals pages, per-person privilege checkboxes and Resource Grants are gone — ask your Client Admin or SEM for a seat instead.
KMZ files exported from GeMS (from the Data Explorer, Decision Support and Risk) listed some attribute values under the wrong column names, and the last two attributes were missing. Every attribute now keeps its own name and value, and a feature's name is used as its label in Google Earth and other KML viewers. If you adjusted for the old column order in a KMZ, re-export it.
The new Risk app screens a proposed work area against Newfoundland and Labrador's public environmental layers: protected areas, wetlands, watercourses, flood risk, salmon rivers, species at risk habitat, water supply areas, Crown land and more. Draw an area, place a point or line, upload a shapefile, GeoJSON, KML or KMZ, or pick a file from the catalog, then run the screening to see an overall rating and the answers to 16 environmental triggers, with the matching features, recommended follow-up and the data limitations. A second person reviews and signs off a screening before it is published; every run keeps the layer versions and rule set it used, so a published result never changes. Generate a PDF/A screening report, a findings table (CSV) or a GPKG, SHP and KMZ export, and see on the dashboard which layers have changed since a screening ran. Risk is available to businesses on request; ask SEM to enable it.
Each organisation can now give its workforce a branded training portal with its own sign-in link: assigned courses, the course player, certificates, pre-access documents, site access requirements and expiry reminders, with no other GeMS tools visible. Administrators configure the portal under Learning → Settings and can preview it as a learner.
A new Lean tool lists every pole and tower in the selected surveys by how far it leans from vertical, with adjustable warning and alert angles. Selecting a structure flies the camera to it and draws the measured axis. Structures that could not be measured are listed with the reason. The corridor report gains a Structure Lean section.
Asking the assistant to frame a range of towers used to open the Tower Editor with nothing loaded and the map at its default view. It now opens the transmission line those towers belong to and frames the range on the map — including when you are already in the Tower Editor on a different line.
Selecting a point from an uploaded map layer in Environmental Management now draws the highlight ring and label on the point itself. Previously the ring could appear below the terrain on hilly sites. Selected photo markers that float at their capture height are ringed at that height, and the feature callout in shared site views now anchors to the ground as well. A selected feature is also named after its ID field (such as id, fid or objectid) when the layer has no name field, instead of the placeholder "Feature"; a feature with neither shows no map label.
Layers uploaded to a whole site appeared in every section of the Environmental Management layer list, including Wildfire, and could be drawn on the map more than once. They now appear once, under Imagery, and Wildfire lists only wildfire data. Feature layers are also grouped into Points, Lines and Polygons when a site has more than one kind.
When you upload a map layer to Environmental Management and give it a name, the finished layer now keeps that name. Previously the name showed while the file was processing and was then replaced by the file name. Layers uploaded before this change keep their current names; rename them from the layer list if needed.
The key and the Claude Code connect command in the new API key dialog now stay inside the dialog and scroll sideways, instead of running off its edge.
With a tower, inspection or survey selected, questions about findings, inspections, photos and work orders now answer for that selection and say so. Ask for results across all structures or surveys to widen the scope; a chip offers it after every scoped answer.
The attention summary now shows vegetation alerts only, spans whose clearance is below the alert threshold, inspections that are unfinished and past their date, and work orders that are critical, high priority or overdue. Routine items no longer pad the list, and an empty summary means nothing needs action.
Links in the assistant's answers (towers, inspections, surveys, spans, violations and apps) now work when clicked, open the right line or survey, and the suggestion chips answer for the tool you are in. A link to a violation whose survey is not loadable in the Corridor Viewer now says so instead of leaving the viewer blank. The "Show sites on map" suggestion has been removed for now.
AIM LiDAR uploads now accept LiDAR survey formats only (LAS, LAZ, XYZ, PCD and E57). A trained Gaussian splat .ply uploaded there was processed as a corridor survey and could not produce a usable result. Upload .ply splats with Upload a capture in the Splat Viewer, or choose Gaussian Splat Capture in the upload wizard. The assistant now sends .ply files to Gaussian Splat Capture as well.
Selecting a sag alert now draws the clearance line at the point along the span where the conductor comes closest to the ground, as recorded by the latest processing, so its lower end sits on the terrain. Previously it was drawn at the lowest conductor point, which on a sloped span could float above or sink below the ground. Surveys processed before this change keep the old anchor until they are reprocessed.
The sag list, the overview span map and the assistant's sag answers now pick spans by the surveys they were extracted from rather than by map area, so spans from another survey of the same ground no longer appear in the list.
When a survey opened with terrain on, the centre of rotation could be set from the flat terrain placeholder drawn before the elevation data arrived, leaving it far below the scene so the first rotate or zoom dipped under the map. The viewer now waits for real terrain or point data before choosing the centre. Applies to the Corridor, LiDAR and Vegetation viewers.
After panning, rotating and zooming now stay on the ground or structure at the centre of the screen instead of drifting away from it. Double-click any point to make it the new centre of rotation. You can now tilt the view almost to level to look up at towers and under conductors. Applies to the Corridor, LiDAR and Vegetation viewers.
Classified LiDAR now uses the same colour set as our point cloud curation tools, so a survey looks the same wherever you open it: muted browns and greens for ground and vegetation, light blue towers, yellow conductors and orange guard wires. Newly curated surveys can carry extra classes — distribution poles, guy wires, street lamps, vehicles, fences, substation equipment, overhead structures, rail and snow — and these now render in their own colours with legend toggles in the Corridor, LiDAR and Vegetation viewers; noise and curator-excluded points sit in a collapsed group, hidden by default. Advanced Options gains a Normal / High / Max detail setting that loads finer point-cloud detail for closer inspection.
Create API keys from Settings → API keys to let Claude Code and similar tools work in GeMS on your behalf — browsing and editing data, running every kind of upload the upload wizard offers, generating and fetching reports and exports, and working in Inspections, Maintenance, Environmental Management, Site Views, Decision Support, Learning and Q&A. Keys act within one organisation, carry only the permissions you choose, expire, and can be revoked at any time. Administrators can see every key and its activity in Control Center and disable any of them.
The new File Share tool lets you upload files of up to 5 GB — from File Share or the Upload page — and send them on as they are. Share a file with named people in your organisation, who are told in the notification bell and by email; with everyone in your organisation; or with someone outside GeMS through a download link that works once, expires on the date you choose, and can be protected with a password you send them separately. File Share has three tabs — your own files, files shared with you, and files shared with your whole organisation — and you can remove people, stop sharing with your organisation or turn off a link at any time, with immediate effect. Deleting a file removes it for everyone.
The terrain just outside a survey's LiDAR coverage is now the survey's own filled ground, which blends into the LiDAR over about 60 m instead of meeting it at a sharp step with coarse, blocky terrain beyond. Surveys processed earlier still show the plain step until they are reprocessed; surveys with no background terrain are unchanged.
Where high-resolution survey terrain met the surrounding background terrain, the seam could show deep pits with dark walls. Surveys processed from now on carry a viewer terrain with those gaps pre-filled, so the edge renders as a plain step. Surveys processed earlier show the old terrain until they are reprocessed.
Tailings Management has replaced the previous Environmental Management app and taken its name: one map for your site's tailings analysis, water loggers, birdsong, wildfire, 3D captures and media, now at Environmental Management on the portal. The Site Viewer is now one of its tools, Media can build and choose your site's terrain, and Publish also lists views made with the earlier Site Views editor (to open, re-share or delete) and the views shared with you. Bookmarks and links to the old Tailings Management and Environmental Management pages open the matching tool for the same site. The separate Water Loggers, Birdsong, Site Media, Site Viewer and Site Views tiles have been folded into Environmental Management, and publishing Site Media to a standalone web page is no longer available.
Tailings Management: Analysis tools has been redesigned. A single Instrument dashboard lists each instrument's latest readings and alert status alongside your site's water loggers, with their charts and alert thresholds in a panel along the bottom of the map; an alert button shows how many alerts still need attention and opens the alert ledger, and a Settings button, for users with permission, holds the instrument list, the choice of what the dashboard shows, and alert thresholds and recipients. Picking any other tool shows only its layers in the left-hand list, and the map follows. Tick the layers you want — two surfaces to compare or measure a volume change, or the layers to check against a lease boundary — then run the tool from the right-hand panel, where its past results are listed too. Measuring a volume change now calculates it for you and records it as a survey. In Wildfire, the search radius now sits at the top of the panel as the Search area, and it limits the fire heatmap and smoke plumes on the map as well as the fire list and burned areas.
Landscape & Visual Impact Assessment now has its own app, Visual Assessment. Scenes (previously LVIA Scenes in Environmental Management and the LVIA Viewer) presents 3D scenes with viewpoints and camera tours, and the scene Studio lives alongside it for staff who author scenes. Existing links to the old pages open the new app.
Tailings Management: the Overview now has an Add data button that opens the upload wizard for your site. The Home view controls are now a button in the top-left corner of the map, beside the side panel, and Analysis tools show feature details in the right-hand sidebar when no tool is open.
Tailings Management: the layer list now doubles as the map legend, and the GeMS Assistant can select, inspect and explain map features, change layers and the time window, and (after you confirm) publish views.
New Tailings Management app: one map for your site's tailings analysis, water loggers, birdsong, wildfire, 3D captures and media, with right-click inspect, selection, measuring, a timeline and shareable views.
Site boundaries — leases, setbacks, habitat and other constraint areas — are now shared between Environmental Management and Decision Support, and both use the same boundary window: draw the shape on the map, paste GeoJSON, or use a vector file such as a shapefile, KML or GeoPackage (upload one from the same window). Boundaries made from a file appear on the Environmental Management map with their description and source. In Decision Support, a project's spatial requirements test your boundaries on its site; replacing a boundary's shape keeps the earlier one as history for earlier design revisions. Province-wide reference data (protected water supply areas, wetlands, salmon rivers and more) now comes from public data published by SEM: it is always marked Public data, shows its source, licence and attribution on the map and in reports, and is kept separate from your own data.
A file that another part of GeMS depends on — a document published as Decision Support evidence, or the file behind a constraint boundary — is now marked Held in the data browser. It can't be deleted, moved to another location or given a lower data classification while it is in use, and GeMS tells you why instead of failing partway. Deleting data now removes the catalog entry first and the stored files only afterwards, so a refused delete never leaves an entry pointing at missing files.
A new Learning app brings training into GeMS. Build a course from steps that unlock in order: reading with images, videos that must be watched through, checklists with a signed attestation, an interactive map of the site with training points, a 360° walkthrough of a building with tasks at each location, an external module whose certificate a manager verifies, and a knowledge test with seven question types. Assign courses to people, groups, roles or everyone at once, with due dates and automatic renewal, and keep the assignment going for anyone who joins later. Learners see what is due on My courses and pick up where they left off. Managers follow everyone on one progress matrix, send reminders, extend due dates, verify certificates, and export to CSV or Excel. Reports show completion, scores and where people stop. A finished course issues a PDF certificate with a QR code that leads to a verification page. Courses can be written in English and French, and editing a published course never disturbs people part-way through it.
Project owners can now export a project as a single file from Project settings: its design revisions and map features, requirements with their dates and clocks, records with their documents, and the parties they involve. Contact details are left out unless you choose to include them. Anyone who can create projects can import such a file onto the site they have chosen: matching parties are reused, you decide who each person in the file becomes in your organisation, and you can move the project's map features onto your site and its dates up to today. A fictional demo project — a small wind farm with permits, conditions, inspections, reports, gates and sample documents — can be loaded with one click to explore Decision Support.
When your own constraint data changes — an updated wetland inventory or a revised lease boundary — upload the new file and choose Replace its data on the layer. The new data takes the layer's place in every project: the requirements that test it move to the new data and their findings are recomputed. The previous data is kept, so findings on earlier design revisions still show what they were checked against.
A new Notifications page under Settings lets you turn off email for permitting and compliance notices while still seeing them in the notification bell. It also explains which other notifications are always emailed, such as data processing and export results, and which are managed elsewhere. The "Manage notification preferences" link at the foot of every GeMS email now opens this page.
A project can now build on an earlier one — a phase, an expansion, a successor or a split. Nothing is copied: the earlier project's site-wide obligations, such as life-of-facility monitoring, appear read-only in the new project's register; an approval it still holds, such as an environmental assessment release that covers the new footprint, is recognised, so the plan asks for an amendment rather than a fresh application; and its records — baseline surveys, consultation history — can be linked as evidence where a requirement accepts reused records. A new project can also start from another's settings: its rulebooks, answers, escalation days and time zone. The Gates view rates each gate's criteria red, amber or green, and publishes a gate readiness report with what is blocking it, its review clocks and how far dates have moved. Recurring reports, such as an annual compliance report, now have their condition report drafted automatically when their lead date arrives, ready for the owner to review. An evidence bundle zips every published record proving a requirement, with an index and the fingerprint of each file, for a regulator or an audit. The Record page has quick filters — documents, submissions, correspondence, consultation, complaints and reports — and exports its list. Each member can subscribe to a project's due dates and decision dates in Outlook or Google Calendar with a private link of their own. The map's side panel shows the next gate and any approval about to lapse, and every page shows a badge when a decision is overdue or a validity is running out. Projects take today's date in their own time zone. Records and outputs are now always reviewed before they are published, published records can no longer be deleted, and items entered by mistake are withdrawn — kept in the project's history — rather than deleted. Indigenous partners on a project see their own nation's or community's restricted records and items, and no one else's. The rulebooks supplied are marked as not yet reviewed against current regulation, and durations or thresholds they could not source are left blank instead of guessed.
A new Decision Support app keeps the register of everything a project owes — permits to obtain, conditions to meet, inspections, reports, gates and commitments — in one list instead of a permit matrix and a condition spreadsheet. Create a project on one of your sites, add items by hand with their reference, who they are owed to, status, due date and owner, and filter by permits, conditions, inspections, commitments, overdue items or your own. The Record page holds every document filed under the site — filings, letters, minutes, reports and photos — with who each was with and when, linked to the requirements it proves, creates or responds to; records are reviewed and published, then locked. Its Timeline lays every document, letter, submission and meeting out by date, one row per party or per type, so it is easy to see what was sent and received, to and from whom, and when — select one to see the deadlines it answers alongside it. Each project has its own members and roles, and parties marked restricted are shown only to people granted access to them. The Map page turns a layout into a plan: pin a rulebook to the project — the first covers onshore wind in Newfoundland and Labrador — answer its short questionnaire, and add the footprint, turbines, roads and crossings from a file, an upload on the site, or by drawing them on the map in 2D or 3D. Each feature is checked against reference layers such as protected water supply areas, wetland buffers, residence setbacks and salmon rivers, and against your own constraint layers, with every hit listed with its distance, the rule behind it and its source. Generate plan adds the permits, conditions and studies the project owes. Design changes are drafted as revisions: compare a draft with the current layout to see which constraints it clears or creates, how each gate's date moves, and exactly what promoting it would change; drafts can be kept as what-if scenarios. Requirements can prove themselves — by published records of a given type, by monitoring readings held to a limit (for example suspended solids at or below 25 mg/L as a monthly mean), or by a spatial constraint staying clear. Monitoring-based evidence is checked automatically every hour, and a breach adds a corrective action to the register. The Work page's Timeline is a Gantt chart with dependencies and the critical path to any gate, such as construction start: external reviews show a best-to-worst range, statutory review clocks count calendar or business days on the right authority's holidays and pause for consultations and information requests, approvals track how long they stay valid, and seasonal work windows push in-water or nesting-season work to when it is allowed. Every item keeps its original, current and actual dates, and every change records why, so slippage can be traced to its cause; late items are flagged rather than quietly moved. Recurring obligations such as quarterly groundwater reports appear as one item per due date, each with its own evidence check. The Calendar switches between month, quarter and year, and selecting an item on the Work page highlights it on the map. Decision Support also tells people when something needs attention. Each morning, the owners of a project's permits, conditions and reports get one summary — in the notification bell and by email — of what is late, what is forecast to miss its deadline, what is due soon and which approvals are about to lapse, across all their projects. The day an item passes its deadline, a regulator's decision becomes overdue or an approval's validity runs out, its owner is told straight away, once. If it stays late, the backup owner is told after a week and the project's owners and permitting leads after two; projects can change those days, and items nobody owns go to the project leads at once. Everyone chooses, per project, a daily or weekly summary or none, and whether to get the immediate alerts, and alerts and summaries only ever mention what the person is allowed to see. When a newer version of a rulebook is published, a project can upgrade to it: before anything changes, it shows what the new version adds, what it no longer requires, and every changed detail of the items the project already has — such as a new review range or validity period — each with a tick box, so details someone has changed by hand are kept unless you choose otherwise; finished items are never touched, and every date the upgrade moves is recorded against it. Completing an item can also bring what normally follows it: marking a Crown lease as issued adds its renewal, and an environmental assessment release adds its standard conditions, assigned to the same owner, who is told. Undo the completion and any follow-on nobody has started is removed again. Finally, the Publish menu produces the constraint report card as PDF/A, the register as Excel, Word or CSV, the layout and its findings as GeoPackage, shapefile or KMZ, a compliance pack for a release order, a calendar file of due dates, and the schedule for Microsoft Project, Primavera P6 or a spreadsheet — each drafted, reviewed and published before it can be downloaded, and fingerprinted with exactly the data it was made from.
A new Maintenance Tracking tool shows the work orders raised against your structures, right on the same map as Asset Inspection — switching between the two keeps your view and your selected tower. Each structure shows its outstanding work by severity, and work orders appear above the towers they belong to, coloured and shaped by severity. You can see how the backlog has changed over time, close a batch of work orders in one pass with the details recorded once and adjusted where a job differed, and open a calendar of when work was raised, is due, and was completed. Work orders created from an inspection finding keep the finding's severity. Raise new work orders straight from the tool, and generate closure documents — one sheet per work order with its evidence photos, or a summary of a whole batch with the backlog over time — as PDF, Word or print. Crews can also record completed work from the field in ArcGIS Survey123, choosing the work order from a list GeMS exports — it works offline, and each work order can open the survey with the order already picked. Submissions arrive in Maintenance Tracking for a supervisor to check, correct if needed, and apply or reject in one pass; nothing is recorded as done until then, unless your organisation chooses to apply complete submissions automatically.
The first time you open the assistant in a session, it shows the critical findings, open work orders and worst encroachments for your business without being asked. If there is nothing to report it opens quietly.
With an inspection selected, or a survey loaded in the Corridor Viewer or Vegetation Encroachment, the assistant offers a Report on this chip. One tap starts the right report for it.
Every assistant answer now has Copy and Markdown links beneath it, so you can paste one answer elsewhere or save just that answer as a file, without exporting the whole conversation.
A long answer in the assistant now shows its first part with a Read more link instead of stretching the whole conversation. Show less folds it back.
When you ask for a corridor report, the assistant now asks what it should cover and which format you want, one question at a time, then shows how many items it selected and waits for your go-ahead before opening the report builder. It no longer guesses a format or scope you did not mention.
Asking the assistant to show a line's corridor now opens the corridor tool with the surveys that cover that line already loaded, and says so, instead of announcing a highlight that never appeared. Top-down, oblique and eye-level camera requests now work in the Corridor Viewer, LiDAR viewer and Vegetation Encroachment as well as on the map.
Clicking a survey or tower link from the assistant while you are already in the Corridor Viewer or Asset Inspection now loads that survey or selects that tower in place. Before, those links only worked when they opened the viewer fresh. Opening Vegetation Encroachment from the assistant now also selects the surveys the answer was about.
If you ask the assistant about an app you do not have access to, it now explains what the app is and points you to Request access in the Control Center, instead of offering a link that ends in an access-denied message. Suggested follow-ups no longer lead into apps you cannot open.
Asking the assistant to capture the view now shows the screenshot in the conversation with a Download button, instead of saving a file straight away. In the Corridor Viewer, Use in report opens the report builder with that picture already included as the map figure. Capture now also works in the AIM Corridor Viewer, the LiDAR viewer and Vegetation Encroachment.
Opening a finding or work order from the assistant now takes you to the tower it belongs to, on the right tab, with the finding highlighted, instead of the first tower of the inspection. Links that ask for the report, export or share dialog of an inspection now open it on arrival, on both the AIM and standalone Asset Inspection pages.
Editing a business, restoring a deactivated business or user, changing a user's type, and updating default or per-user resource permissions used to appear in the Control Center Audit Log with no actor. These actions now record the signed-in administrator who made them. Dropdown lists in the Add User dialog and the user filters are also readable again against the dark panel.
If a sign-in does not finish — you cancelled or declined the permission prompt, the link had expired, or your organisation's sign-in reported a problem — the page now says what happened in plain words and offers Try again, which takes you back to the page you were heading for, or Go to home. It no longer flashes a technical message and jumps to the homepage on its own.
When your session expires while a GeMS tab is open, the page now notices on its own and takes you to the login page, remembering where you were so you land back there after signing in. Before, the page kept looking signed in and actions quietly failed until you reloaded.
Exporting from Teams now lists your catalogued datasets even when recent uploads outnumber them, pages through long lists with Show more while keeping your ticks, and lets you narrow by upload date. Choosing HNAP checks the French metadata the same way the portal does: if any selected dataset still has missing or machine-translated French, you are shown which ones and asked to allow the machine translation before the export runs.
Build views of a site that show exactly the layers, terrain, 3D captures and media you choose, then share each one as a public link, with your whole organisation, or with specific people. Viewers open a focused 3D scene with only what the view includes; open views shared with you from the Site Views app.
Opening a scene now shows a loading screen with progress while the terrain, imagery, turbines and infrastructure around the opening viewpoint stream in, then reveals the completed view. Previously, on slower connections, the scene assembled piece by piece in front of you and the camera cut in part-way through. The street-view controls have also moved to their own row under the viewpoint picker, with each button carrying its own prompt while active.
Scenes that carry an alternate turbine layout now show a Compare button in the viewer. Turn it on and a divider splits the view: the alternate layout appears on the left, the main layout on the right, and you drag the divider to sweep between them while the camera, terrain and surroundings stay identical on both sides. Where an alternate access-road layout has been prepared, the road surfaces swap with it too.
In the 3D view, conductors sometimes crossed over each other between two towers — most often at the end of a line or where the line changes direction sharply. Every structure on a line now takes its orientation from the direction the line runs, so the wires stay on their own side from one tower to the next.
In Teams, after the assistant has shown you a tower or an inspection, follow-ups like "add a finding to it" or "what type is this tower?" now refer to that item without you naming it again, the way they already did in the portal.
When you send a message, a screen reader is told that GeMS is replying and then reads the finished answer, without you having to move focus away from the input. Errors are announced immediately.
Reduced Motion is now called Low System Spec Mode, and it now actually turns off motion effects across the app, not just some of them. The unused Compact Mode toggle is gone. Your profile card no longer shows internal account-provisioning statuses. The account menu now shows your role and business, and adds Appearance, What's New and Contact Support links.
In the Corridor Viewer, Vegetation Encroachment and LiDAR Patch Viewer, asking the assistant to fly to a position, show or hide a point class, colour the cloud by classification, elevation, intensity or RGB, or compare two scans now changes the viewer. Those commands used to be accepted and then silently ignored. If you are on a map-based tool when you ask, the assistant now says the control belongs to the point-cloud viewer instead of pretending it worked, and cross-sections, annotations and elevation profiles say plainly that the viewer cannot draw them yet and fly you to the spot instead.
Ask about inspections while you are in the Tower Editor, or about sag while you are in Asset Inspection, and the assistant now says that this tool does not cover it and offers a button to open the one that does, instead of answering with the nearest thing it could find. It also keeps its briefing short: 'What needs attention?' shows at most ten items per category.
Asset Inspection is organised by tower, so an inspection the assistant created without one could not be found there. The assistant now asks which tower the inspection is for, uses the tower you have selected when there is one, shows it in the confirmation, and links the inspection on creation. You can also ask it to link an existing inspection to a tower, for example "link the Q2 2026 Annual Inspection to P-0042".
While the assistant is answering, the send button becomes a stop button. Stopping keeps whatever has been written so far and lets you ask something else straight away, instead of waiting for a long answer to finish.
As you type a question in the Ask SEM dialog, it now shows up to three answered questions that look similar, each opening the existing answer. Sending is never blocked; the list is there so you can skip the wait when SEM has already answered it. The knowledge search behind it also matches on words now rather than an exact phrase, so the Q&A page finds more.
Assigning a question to someone now tells them: an in-app notification with a link to the question, and a line under the question's card in Teams that mentions them. New question cards in Teams can also mention the support team so they see them arrive rather than finding them on the next visit.
The Q&A triage page has a fourth tab, Resolved, listing every closed question for the business whoever handled it. Until now a resolved question owned by someone else could only be reached from its link. The tab loads separately, so the open queue is never pushed off the page by history, and the Type, Sort and business filters apply to it like the others.
Inspection photo uploads now appear on the progress page as soon as they start, so 'Go to Progress' takes you to your upload instead of an empty table; the entry runs through the photo analysis to the same 'ready' notice every other upload gets, and its 'open' button takes you back to the inspection the photos landed in. Because uploads run in your browser, reloading or closing the tab part-way stops them — so while one is in flight the progress page now says, at the top of the list, which file it has reached and that stopping now leaves the rest unsaved and unprocessed (moving around the app is fine; it's only reloading or closing the tab that hurts). And any upload that hasn't finished now has a Cancel button, for one started by mistake, one taking longer than you can wait for, or one already left stuck part-way: it stops where it is and the entry is marked cancelled, with anything already uploaded left where it landed and nothing processed. You can cancel your own uploads; administrators can clear anyone's.
Ask the assistant about a tower — including one you aren't currently looking at — and its answer now comes with buttons for the tools that can open it: Tower Editor, Corridor Viewer, the LiDAR Patch Viewer. Each carries the line or survey that tool needs, so you land on the tower rather than on an empty picker. And wherever the assistant takes you, the '← Back to' chip in the header now appears just as it does when you jump from a panel, so changing your mind costs one click; those trips also show up in 'Recently viewed' under the app grid.
Selecting a tower on the map now offers 'Peek point cloud', and the same option appears when you right-click a tower in the Asset Inspection or Tower Editor lists. It opens the point cloud for that tower's survey in a window over what you're already doing — enough to see whether there's LiDAR there and what it looks like — and closing it puts you back exactly where you were, with nothing in the tool behind it changed. If you need the full viewer, 'Open in LiDAR Viewer' at the bottom takes you there with the same survey already loaded. Towers with no survey don't show the option, and a survey whose point cloud hasn't been processed yet says so rather than showing you a different one.
A new Environmental Management sub-app puts everything captured at a site — point clouds, terrain, rasters, boundaries, photos, 360s, drone video and flight paths, 3D captures, and instruments — into one 3D view, with layers you can drag, group, and save as the site default. A tool row adds measuring, a discovery tool that lists everything inside a shape you draw, a timeline, a data table, a media catalogue, and a side-by-side raster compare (once a site has two or more rasters), with the GeMS Assistant in that same row.
There's now a grid button at the top-left of every page that opens all of your apps and tools in one list, so moving between them no longer means going back to the portal and finding the right tile. It shows only what you have access to, puts the ones you use most at the top, and marks the app you're currently in. Beneath the grid, 'Recently viewed' lists the last few things you actually opened — a tower, a dataset, a finished upload — and takes you straight back to each one with everything it needs already loaded, not just to the app it lives in. The list is per-device and per-browser, and there's an X to clear it.
Screens that are loading, empty, or broken now say so consistently. While data is on its way you see a placeholder shaped like the content that's coming, so nothing jumps around when it arrives. When there's genuinely nothing to show, the panel says what's missing and how to fill it — 'No alert rules yet — add a rule to start evaluating this instrument' rather than a blank space. And when something fails to load, you get a plain explanation and a 'Try again' button, instead of a red line telling you to check the server logs. Rolling out panel by panel, starting with the Tailings alert ledger and TARP thresholds, vegetation and sag analysis, and the tower inspection panels.
GeMS now behaves like one system when you move between its apps. Lists and tables everywhere follow the same three gestures: a click selects, a double-click opens, and a right-click shows what you can do with the row — including every other tool that item can be opened in, so you no longer have to find the small '…' button at the end of the row. Keyboard users get all three without a mouse. 'Open in' now appears wherever a tower or a dataset does: the map's tower popup, the tower lists in Asset Inspection and the Tower Editor, the by-tower panel (alongside Report and Share), the Corridor Viewer's structure list, and the Data Browser. Picking a destination takes you there with the item already selected and its line or survey already loaded, instead of dropping you on an empty picker to hunt for it. A double-click in the Data Browser goes straight to the dataset in the viewer it belongs to, and in the Storage Browser it opens a file's data table without selecting it first. Notifications work the same way: when processing finishes, clicking the notification opens the result itself rather than a status page — a finished point cloud lands in the Corridor Viewer with its survey already loaded, a LiDAR upload opens on the patches it produced, a 3D capture opens on its scene, and site data opens in the right Environmental Management sub-app on the right location. If the result isn't quite ready yet you still land on the processing page as before, so a click is never wasted, and the 'Open' button on the processing page now goes to the same place. Reports that fail to generate link back to the report builder instead of doing nothing when clicked. Once you've jumped — from a list, a map, or a notification — the header shows a 'Back to …' button naming where you came from; clicking it returns you to exactly what you were looking at — the same tower, the same line, the same place in the list — and it appears only when you actually arrived from somewhere else. Links to a tower now work from a cold start too, so you can paste one to a colleague and they'll land exactly where you did. The pop-up that appears the moment work finishes carries the same button: open the result, or download a finished export or report, straight from the pop-up without going back to the bell.
In Site Media, 3D point clouds now settle onto the terrain instead of floating above it, and the photos, 360s, and drone flight paths captured with them move together so they keep their real height above the ground. Media markers on the map are now small circles coded by type — a solid dot for photos, a ring for 360s, and a play symbol for videos — with matching swatches next to each Media layer in the layers panel. The published client viewer got the same terrain and marker treatment, plus a much larger photo/360/video viewer and a catalogue that keeps its size while you filter.
Site media is now organized into layers: everything uploaded together shows up as one toggleable 'Media' entry in the layers panel (both in GeMS and in the published client viewer), and you can merge two or more of those batches into a single named layer — or split them apart again. Browsing is faster too: the photo, 360, and video viewers gained previous/next arrows (and keyboard ←/→) that cycle through everything of the same type. Drone videos with a flight log now draw just the flight path on the map instead of a duplicate pin. And Site Media accepts .las/.laz point clouds directly — they're converted for 3D viewing automatically and appear under 3D captures and in the published viewer. The client viewer itself gained a bottom-center Catalogue: browse every published photo, 360, and video with type filters, and picking one flies the map to where it was captured and opens it. 360 panoramas also load much more reliably and quickly now.
Site Media now handles the rest of your capture library. Upload drone photos and 360 spheres and they're georeferenced automatically — browse them in a gallery or click their pins on the 3D map (photos open full-screen, spheres open in an interactive panorama). Drone videos get a poster frame, and uploading the matching SRT flight log alongside draws the flight path on the globe. When a site is ready, the new Publish button snapshots everything — layers, draw order, terrain, 3D captures, and media — into a versioned read-only viewer you can share with clients: they sign in, pick a site, and see exactly what you published, including switching between published versions over time.
Environmental Management has a new Site Media app for organizing everything captured at a site — orthomosaics, elevation models, and 3D captures — in one place. Upload a DEM and the new Terrain panel can turn it into true 3D elevation: pick 'Build terrain', then choose which elevation model the site's 3D view uses, and orthomosaics drape over your own measured surface instead of generic world terrain. Gaussian-splat and 3D Tiles captures of the site can be streamed onto the same globe from the 3D captures panel. Photo collections, 360 spheres, and drone video are coming to the same app next.
The upload wizard's file step now has two ArcGIS buttons: 'Import from ArcGIS' copies files into GeMS through the normal pipeline, while the new 'Link from ArcGIS' references a live feature service in place — no copy is made, and the layer loads straight from your ArcGIS organization whenever it's viewed. Linked layers appear on the Environmental Management map alongside your other layers, and in the Data Browser they're labelled 'Linked' so it's clear where the data lives. Deleting a linked item removes only the GeMS link — your ArcGIS content is never touched, and you can re-link it any time. The ArcGIS browser itself also gained search, sorting, type filters, and tag filters that use your organization's ArcGIS tags.
The connection set up in Control Center → Integrations now does real work in three places. Importing: the upload wizard has a new 'Import from ArcGIS' source (also reachable from the Data Browser's globe button) — browse and search your organization's content, and selected files are fetched by GeMS and processed exactly like a normal upload, with large files handled in the background. Referencing: live services (feature layers, imagery, tiles, 3D tiles) can instead be referenced in place — they appear in your catalog and load on the map straight from your ArcGIS org, without copying the data. Sending: the export wizard's new Destination step can deliver a finished export bundle into your ArcGIS org automatically, and generated reports gain a 'Send to ArcGIS' button.
A file's details panel in the Data Browser now offers to open it directly in the apps that can display it, with the file already loaded. Point clouds open in the Corridor Viewer or the LiDAR Viewer; maps, imagery and survey data open at the correct site in the Environmental Management sub-app they belong to, with the layer switched on and highlighted in the layer list; inspections open on their record in Asset Inspection; and 3D captures open on their scene in the Splat Viewer. Where a file can be opened in more than one app, you get a button for each.
Asset inspections listed in the Data Browser can now be exported without opening the Asset Inspection app first. The GeoJSON (ArcGIS) and CSV (findings) downloads are the same ones the inspection's own Export button produces, and they're available from an inspection's row menu, its details panel, and the selection toolbar. Tick several inspections and you get one combined file, with each row and map feature labelled with the inspection it came from.
Business administrators can now connect their organization's ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise account to GeMS from the Control Center's new Integrations page. Setup is one-time: paste the OAuth credentials created in your portal and GeMS verifies the connection step by step — reachability, credential, organization, granted privileges, and write access — telling you exactly what to fix if a step fails. Credentials are stored encrypted and are never shown again after saving. This connection is the foundation for importing data directly from your ArcGIS organization in an upcoming release.
The acoustic monitoring dashboard now loads dramatically faster on deployments with a long recording history — data scans are scoped to the days you're actually viewing, so the snapshot and event history no longer time out. Refreshes happen in the background, editing the date range no longer causes errors while you type, and when a spectrogram or audio clip can't be loaded the panel now says so instead of showing an endless loading message.
The Data Browser's map is now a full view alongside List and Tiles, showing every dataset that matches your filters as its true outline (colour-coded by data type) instead of one page of rectangles at a time. Hover a footprint for its name, date, description, size, and type; click overlapping footprints to pick from a list; and drag a rectangle to select datasets right on the map — selections stay in sync with the checkboxes in the other views. The export tool's dataset picker gained type, site, and date filters, and facilities are now called sites throughout.
Vegetation encroachments and sag spans now have checkboxes in the Corridor Viewer's sidebars, and the report builder gained a matching picker with search, severity and survey filters, and select-all — so a report or CSV export contains exactly the items you chose, in every format. The assistant understands it too: ask it to “select the 5 closest vegetation encroachments and output a report” and the report builder opens on the preview with just those items selected, or ask for “just the CSV” and it hands you the file directly — including from Teams.
Uploading data now starts from five clear choices — AIM LiDAR, Environmental LiDAR, Gaussian Splat Capture, Environmental Management, and Tower Editor GeoJSON Import — instead of a card per app, and options that never accepted uploads are gone. Uploading from inside an app opens the same wizard in a dialog with the application and location already filled in from where you are, so a capture uploaded from a monitored location lands on that location automatically.
Vegetation and sag questions now answer from the surveys currently loaded in your viewer, and say so — ask “across all surveys” (or tap the suggested chip) to search everything. Navigation works the other way too: open the Corridor Viewer from an answer and it arrives with those surveys already selected and the matching tool open. The assistant panel also stays open across the move, so the answer is still there when the viewer loads.
The report wizard's final step now finishes the job: after previewing, the primary button runs the export you chose — Print, PDF, CSV, Word, or Excel — and closes when it succeeds, instead of leaving you to go back a step. Errors now show on the preview too.
Photo pins in the inspection viewer now rise to the height the drone captured them at once terrain finishes loading, instead of sitting on the ground — so a tower's photo set hovers around the structure the way it was flown.
The Corridor and LiDAR viewers now carry their own map-projection definitions for the coordinate systems our surveys use, instead of fetching them from an external service every time. If imagery still can't load, the viewer now says so in its warning strip rather than showing bare ground.
The satellite basemap and world terrain now load correctly in the LVIA, corridor, and lidar viewers on hosted environments — previously the area outside high-detail coverage could render as a blank blue globe.
The LVIA viewer gained a Street View button next to the street-level tool: click a road and the view wraps you in the real Google Street View photo from that spot, with the proposed turbines and infrastructure drawn over it. Drag to look around, scroll to zoom, and Esc (or the ✕) flies you back out to the map just like leaving street level.
The Upload Progress page is now Job Progress: your data exports appear in the same list as your uploads, newest first, instead of in a separate section at the bottom. A new Type filter narrows the list to uploads or exports only, and export downloads, retries, and cancellations work right from the list.
The notifications dropdown is wider so message text no longer gets clipped at the right edge, and long lists now scroll within the panel — which can grow to most of the screen — instead of pushing the “All notifications” and “Upload progress” buttons out of reach.
In the report wizard, the preview step now comes after choosing an export format, and notes what that format will contain. The page preview also scales to fit the window, so it no longer spills past the edge of the dialog.
Opening the Corridor Viewer now pre-selects the top survey for your current location (or the top of the full list), so the viewer shows data right away instead of starting empty. The Splat Viewer's panel also moved to the left side, matching the other AIM tools.
Asset inspections are listed alongside your other data in the portal's Data view, filterable under the new “Inspection” type. Each one shows its inspection date, workflow status, photo count and combined photo size, and — where the photos carry GPS — its extent on the map panel. Inspections can be deleted from there like any other data item; deleting removes the inspection along with its photos, findings, and work orders.
The upload wizard's location step now has an “Add new location” card. Give the site a name, an optional region, and a point on the map's coordinates, and it's created for your organization and selected for the upload right away — no need to go set it up in another app first. You can refine its boundary later from the Environmental Management location picker.
Uploading a trained 3D Gaussian Splat now offers the NAD83(CSRS) UTM zones covering the Maritimes and Newfoundland, and picking “Other” takes an exact EPSG code checked before the upload starts instead of failing during processing. The wizard also warns when a PLY's coordinates look like a local frame that no coordinate system could place on the map.
The Wildfire & Change Detection app gained two satellite layers, each with its own sidebar toggle: a fire heatmap showing thermal hotspots detected on the most recent satellite passes (NASA VIIRS), and smoke plumes from NOAA's smoke analysis, shaded light to heavy. Both are on by default and update through the day.
Portal cards now highlight in their own color when hovered instead of always turning blue. The Manage Roles editor in the Control Center gained a Select all / Clear all shortcut for each resource section. Report previews now display on a proper sheet of paper instead of a bare white panel.
Uploads to the Splat Viewer, Corridor Viewer, and LiDAR Viewer now include a site-selection step, so new data lands at the right location from the start. Choosing a site is optional — skip it and the data shows under "Unknown" until you assign one in the portal's Data view.
The Corridor Viewer, LiDAR Viewer, and Splat Viewer now have a location dropdown that narrows their data lists to a single site. Data without an assigned site appears under "Unknown" — assign locations to it from the portal's Data view and it moves to the right site automatically.
Sites are now visible to everyone in your organization, wherever locations appear — the Environmental Management workspace and the portal's Data view site picker. Anyone with editing rights can create, update, or manage any site, so teams work from one shared list instead of personal copies.
In the portal's Data view, select multiple items and use the new Set location button to assign them all to a site at once (or clear them back to Unassigned). Combine it with the sidebar's Unassigned filter to quickly organize data that isn't tied to a site yet.
The notifications dropdown in the header now matches the rest of the site — cleaner layout, clearer unread highlighting, and a tidier empty state.
Newly processed 3D capture (Gaussian splat) scenes now settle onto the terrain by themselves when loaded, instead of floating at the height recorded by the drone and needing a manual adjustment. The height slider is still there for fine-tuning, and older scenes keep working exactly as before.
The read-only LVIA scene viewer now lives inside both workspaces — pick it from the AIM tool strip or the Environmental Management sidebar to present viewpoints and camera tours without leaving the workspace. The standalone LVIA Viewer app is unchanged.
The Water Loggers charts bar now slides up beside the sidebar over the map instead of pushing it aside, with the chart tabs and time range built into its header — switching tabs works even while the bar is tucked away. Sensor and station cards match the app-wide panel styling. Birdsong's details panel stays out of the way until you select an event, then opens automatically. Settings dialogs for both apps match the site theme, with the settings gear now next to the app title in the sidebar. Wildfire's fire-search distance and site conditions moved to the left sidebar alongside the layer list, and the map now shows every active fire across Newfoundland and Labrador — the distance filter controls which fires appear in the list. Sub-apps that aren't ready yet are hidden until they have real content.
The Type, Site, Status, and Date filters in the Data Browser now live in the left sidebar underneath the view buttons, in the same place and style as the filters in the Applications and Tools views — one consistent sidebar instead of a separate filter column. Each filter section can be collapsed on its own to keep the sidebar tidy.
3D capture (Gaussian splat) scenes now render with full view-dependent color, so reflective surfaces like steel towers, water, and wet rock shift naturally as you orbit instead of looking flat. Scenes also render at your display's native resolution while open, and the dark speckling that could appear across a scene is gone.
Generating a PDF, Excel, or Word report now sends a notification when it's ready, with a link straight to the download — handy if you start a report and move on to something else. If a report fails to generate, you'll be notified of that too, including by email.
A new notification bell in the header keeps you up to date on your work. Notifications now arrive the moment something finishes — even if you were on another page — and they no longer disappear when you reload or close the tab. Data processing and exports tell you when they are ready or if something went wrong, with a link straight to the result, and failures also reach you by email so you hear about them when you are away from GeMS. Open "All notifications" from the bell to browse everything you have received, filter to unread, and mark items as read. You will also see a note when GeMS itself has been updated since your last sign-in, linking to what changed.
The Wildfire & Change Detection app now shows real, continuously updated data from public Canadian sources: active fire locations near your site (with size, status, and distance), areas burned so far this season drawn on the map, and current wind speed and direction — both at your site and at each nearby fire, with arrows on the map showing where the wind is blowing. Pick a search radius, click a fire in the list or on the globe to fly to it, and see its details and local conditions.
Water level, hydrometric, and climate charts in the Water Loggers app now live in a collapsible panel along the bottom of the map, giving time series the full width of your screen instead of a narrow side column. Collapse the panel to a slim bar when you want the whole map; the sensor list, batteries, and export stay in the left panel, and the settings gear is now in the chart panel's header.
The portal's Data and Map tabs have been replaced by a single Data Explorer. Every dataset in your organization appears in one searchable list — filter by type, site, status, or date; switch between table and card views; and watch uploads appear the moment they start, with clear status badges when something is still processing or needs attention. You can now rename datasets, edit their details, move them between sites (or create a new site on the spot), export selections through the export wizard, and delete data you no longer need — with confirmation. A collapsible map panel shows where your filtered data sits on the globe: hover a row to highlight its footprint, or click a footprint to open its details.
File Transfers is now called File Export, and covers far more of what you upload. New formats include Shapefile, CSV, COPC point clouds, PMTiles, glTF models, 3D Tiles, and the original uploaded file. Exports also stay in a new history list, so you can leave the page and come back to download a bundle again, retry one that failed, or cancel one still running.
Environmental Monitoring gains two new sub-apps: Point Clouds for inspecting LiDAR captured at your selected location, and Gaussian Splats for photorealistic 3D captures streamed onto the globe. Both show only the data at the location you're working in, and switching between sub-apps no longer reloads the 3D view.
The Gaussian-splat capture viewer is now available as a tool inside the AIM workspace, sharing the same globe as the other AIM tools, and its camera now frames scenes correctly on opening.
The GeMS assistant can now report the status of your recent uploads — ask “did my upload finish?” to get a live summary with a link to the Upload Progress page.
Opening a completed LiDAR upload from the progress page now lands directly on its survey in the Corridor Viewer instead of the app's start screen.
The upload progress page now shows plain-language details — who uploaded a file, its type, and when — with friendlier status labels, a new Cancelled filter, and clearer wording throughout the export wizard.
Environmental Monitoring now accepts wide-format instrument CSVs, derives observed properties automatically from imported readings, and presents alerts in a single consolidated panel.
Attach a file in a Teams conversation with the GeMS assistant and it lands directly in GeMS. In-app chat uploads now let you choose which application the file goes to.
Every data card the assistant produces — inspections, findings, users, vegetation results — can now be exported to CSV with one click.
The tower viewers gained a distance-based level-of-detail system and higher-fidelity wire rendering, keeping large networks smooth without sacrificing close-up detail.
Scene terrain and imagery can now be edited directly inside the LVIA studio, and live water-level report cards are available through the assistant.
A new Compare Surfaces panel computes survey-to-survey elevation change and renders it as a heatmap layer. Teams conversations with the assistant now persist across sessions, with a built-in business switcher.
The upload wizard now accepts bathymetry and InSAR products for Environmental Monitoring, and trigger-action response plans were renamed to the clearer “alert rules.”
Full-resolution 360° Street View panoramas can be opened directly inside an LVIA scene, making it easy to compare the modelled view against real photography from the same spot.
Environmental Monitoring layer visibility is now saved per user, with an option to publish a default view for your team. EM data uploads were merged into the general Upload Wizard for one consistent flow.
Project reviewers can now access LVIA scenes through a dedicated, access-controlled viewer — no GeMS account required. KML layout import brings turbine positions, transmission lines, and marked areas straight into a scene.
Tailings layers gained a map timeline, depth-aware rendering, and polygon clipping, alongside a unified Add Data wizard for all data entry.
Multibeam bathymetry ingest produces elevation-change heatmaps between surveys and reconciles volumes across survey pairs.
Water Logger subscribers can choose daily digests or on-change notifications. Environmental Monitoring added lease-line compliance boundaries and opt-in monthly InSAR auto-refresh over a site footprint.
A new export wizard assembles GISTM-aligned data packs from Tailings records in a few clicks.
LVIA scenes now render animated, manufacturer-accurate turbine models (Vestas V162, Nordex N175) with realistic tower models and a Quality/Performance render preset toggle.
A new viewer app renders georeferenced 3D Gaussian Splat scenes, with capture upload support: submit photos, video, or LiDAR and GeMS processes them into a scene.
Users who belong to several businesses get an active-business switcher, with apps, uploads, and storage scoped per business throughout the platform.
Author orbit and waypoint camera tours for LVIA scenes, then play them back in the new standalone LVIA Viewer app — ideal for presentations and public consultation.
Browse, curate, and export the geospatial data catalog with two new tools. LVIA scenes also moved to a database-backed library with full version history.
The assistant can now create inspections, findings, and work orders through guided conversations, with strict validation against real project data and deep links into the relevant viewer.
Database-level row security is now enforced across the platform, so every query is scoped to your business at the lowest layer of the stack.
The Water Logger app went live: real-time water-level stations on a 3D map, historical charts, a three-tier alert system, and per-level email subscriptions.