The State of Tennessee's Office of Information Resources GIS Division (OIR-GIS) has released a draft technical specification document for its future-planned statewide "enhanced elevation" products. While the business plan for this program has yet to be funded, the State OIR-GIS seeks input / comments from its potential audience of users, especially local government authorities who have specific mapping needs (such as Knox). The draft document can be found here. For more information about this project, go to the State's GIS website.

KGIS welcomes Mr. Trevor McMurray as its GIS Analyst / Map Products Specialist. Trevor comes to KGIS from the Blount County Property Assessor's Office.  Please join us in extending a warm welcome to Trevor and his family.

KGIS welcomes Mr. Trevor McMurray as its GIS Analyst / Map Products Specialist. Trevor comes to KGIS from the Blount County Property Assessor's Office.  Please join us in extending a warm welcome to Trevor and his family.

 Google has changed from api V2 to api V3 and KGIS has updated the Google api to V3. In the new api version Google is no longer using flash.  In the KGIS Viewers (My KnoxNetWhere and My KGIS Lite) when you zoom in on a street and click the Google Street View tool you get a curved image. If you use the lastest version of Chrome you don't get the curved or bubble image view, but in the other browsers IE, Opera, Firefox, Safari your current position looks like you are at a street intersection.

When you go to the Google's mapping website and zoom in and turn on Street View you don't see the curved effect, because Google is still using Flash.

KGIS is still looking into the problem and will keep the users posted.

KGIS' GIS Analyst, Mr. Garrett McKinney, has received a new job opportunity, and has notified KGIS that he will be leaving on Sept. 23rd. Garrett has been with KGIS since 2008, and worked in the City Engineering Dept. for several years prior to that. His dedication to his job, and his service is very much appreciated, and KGIS extends their warm wishes to Garrett and his family in their new venture.