Recent Google Imagery Update Alerts received by KGIS indicate that the aerials for most of Knox County have been updated to what looks to be Fall 2013 vintage. The extents of the new photography are not quite known since it is blended / mosaiced together in a seamless fashion, but the color variations of the tree canopy are indicative of a Fall acquisition (see image to right)...Click Here for More Information.

Aerial Photography will be captured for the entire Knox County and KUB service areas during the early months of 2014 as part of a GIS information improvement project jointly supported by Knox County, KUB and the City of Knoxville. In addition to providing updates to KGIS's 2010-vintage aerial ortho-photography, the project (with EagleVision / Pictometry Inc) will provide KGIS with a new update to its 6-year-old LiDAR datasets ... (Click here for more information)

The East Tennessee Regional GIS Conference will be held on Oct. 15th at the Chattanooga State Health Science Center. The day-long 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. 

We need your help!

During the next couple of weeks, your various departments will be invited to actively participate in a User Needs Analysis. KGIS has enlisted the help of a consultant to collect an inventory of those GIS features most important and critical to our respective departmental workflows and missions. We therefore encourage your participation in this survey, in the hopes that its results will be of great benefit to KGIS's long-term, strategic planning and new mapping initiatives. For more information, Click Here. 

A small enhancement has been made to KGIS Maps to make it easier to step through multiple pages when reviewing the results of a search operation. When reviewing multiple pages of data in the RESULTS pane (along the left hand side of the screen), users now have the option of choosing the "next page" link without having to scroll down. (Each page can list up to 15 different records.) Prior to this change, users needed to "scroll" all the way to the bottom of the results pane, and then select the next page.