Over the next several months KGIS is bringing online new server systems to host this website, store user data files and house the Oracle geodatabase.  In short, all KGIS servers are being replaced and this will have an impact, hopefully a positive one, on all users.  In summary the changes taking place are:

• The file servers KGIS-FILE1 and KGIS-FILE3 are being replaced with a single system called KGISCCPRFS1.  All user data files are being relocated to this server, including the ArcMapDataManagement folder, KGISdgns, and all tiff-based orthos.  KGIS will begin this transition in the first full week of September.  We will contact all users and departments to coordinate the relocation of files, any drive remappings that are necessary and reconfiguration of ArcGIS Image Server connections if used.

• The "old brown site", www.kgis.net, is going off-line at 4:00 PM August 31st and will not be available until December.  At that time, this site, new.kgis.net will become www.kgis.net. 

• Replacement of the Oracle database server is also underway.  KUB users will go-live on the new database, with City and County uses transitioned in December. 

Please feel free to contact John Edwards (5-3130) or Conn McAnally (5-2127) if you have any questions or concerns.

The City of Alcoa has implemented a publicly-accessible GIS / mapping website, providing access to color aerial photography, parcel boundaries, FEMA flood data, and other data layers. A Stormwater Utility mapping app is also built upon the same technology. For links to other map sites in the greater Knoxville area, click here.

In its efforts to enforce the statutes of Tennessee Code Annotated 40-39-211 in regards to sexual offenders, the Knox County, TN Sheriff's Office has created a map theme in the MY KNOXnet Where intranet mapping site called "TCA Restriction Zones", to highlight  areas which are "off-limits" to sexual offenders. This same map theme is also available to the general public via KGIS' KGIS Lite application (on www.kgis.org) Read more here. To report any tips about an offender, send an email here: 

The Knox County Sheriff's Office is now utilizing an online crime-mapping website, CrimeReports.Com,  to help relay crime incident data to the general public, including sex offender registry locations. The Sheriff's Office generates latitude / longitude (XY) coordinates for each incident by using MPC's address database (hosted on the KGIS system), and then plots those locations onto the Google-hosted map. Reports and other tabular data are also provided. (Note: Only crimes outside of the City of Knoxville jurisdiction limits are currently shown in the application).

 Also, in its efforts to enforce the statutes of Tennessee Code Annotated (TCA) 40-39-211 in regards to sexual offenders, the Knox County, TN Sheriff's Office has created a map theme in the KGIS Lite mapping site (which is now called KGIS Maps) called "TCA Restriction Zones", to highlight  areas which are "off-limits" to sexual offenders. Read more here.

To report any tips about an offender, send an email here: