The deadline for proposals ended on October 7, 2015 for KGIS's solicitation for Aerial and Topographic mapping services. An Evaluation Team led by Knox County Purchasing will now commence to review and issue an award to the most qualified vendor. READ MORE....

On behalf of KGIS, the Purchasing Division of Knox County TN has posted a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for the capture, processing, and / or update of digital aerial orthophotography, LiDAR, hydrography, breaklines, spot elevations and contours for all of Knox County and optionally the KUB extended service area. For more information, and inquiries, visit the Solicitations page of the Knox County Purchasing website.

The 3^rd Quarter KGIS Policy Board Meeting, which had been scheduled for Aug. 21st, 2015, has been canceled. [The Policy Board has a policy of canceling those quarterly meetings when there are no actions to be taken.]  The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Board is set for Friday, November 20^th , 2015 at 1:30 p.m. 

The planned ArcGIS Server upgrade for this upcoming weekend (March 28-29, 2015) has been canceled to allow for further testing and adjustments to existing code.

KGIS staff have recently identified a mission-critical application that is using web services hosted on KGIS.ORG, but which has not been fully tested.  Therefore, it is important that the upgrade task be delayed in order to assess the impact.  A new revised upgrade schedule will be released later (and posted onto this site.) READ MORE..

In conjunction with Keith's proposed FY 2015 Budget, he also presented the Coordinating Committee with an overview of the Landbase / Aerial Photography program and its current status. He highlighted how the Policy Board had already approved of acting on several of the recommendations that came out of the User Needs Analysis; and he also made recommendations regarding the long-range and next steps towards maintaining an up-to-date suite of landbase products. Click here to review the slides; or visit the Projects...Landbase page for other related items.