TESTING....KGIS has just received a delivery of the 2' contour data covering all of Knox County and the entire KUB service area. The dataset is HUGE! More than 17 gigs in size (as compared with our previous contour dataset size of 5 gigs). And the detail seems to reflect the very high accuracy of the LiDAR data that was flown at a 4 points per meter density back in the spring of 2016. READ MORE...

The East Tennessee Regional GIS Conference will be held October 6-7, 201 on the University of Tennessee's Agricultural Campus (Plant BioTechnology Building). The event provides an excellent opportunity to present and learn about GIS initiatives taking place throughout the region. For Call to Papers, and other Info, visit the Conference webpage. 

Several precinct boundary changes and new voting location changes have been announced by the Knox County Election Commission. Click HERE for the more information, including maps courtesy WBIR. A map of all Voting Precincts can be found on KGIS's Ready-made PDF Maps page, and an interactive map can be found in KGIS Maps. 

A new 2016 Aerial (Preliminary) map theme has been added to KGIS Maps. Since these aerials are preliminary, by-products of the Spring 2016 Knox County Property Assessor project with EagleView - Pictometry , they don't quite meet the product standards of past KGIS aerial products. Therefore, instead of replacing the default Aerial Theme (which is still vintage 2014), the preliminary aerials are located under the Historical Aerials category of Map themes (see image). READ MORE....

Newly acquired Spring 2016 oblique, 360° aerial imagery is now accessible to the KGIS Maps audience. Acquired in the Spring of 2016 by the Knox County Property Assessor,  the EagleView - Pictometry imagery provides a fresh, updated look at our ever-changing Knoxville and Knox County landscape. (For example, Click here to compare the 2016 and 2014 images of the redesigned Fort Dickerson Park entrance.). To access the....READ MORE