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)

Google recently updated their Google Maps Javascript API, which KGIS is using to display street view maps.  This change is  causing some older browsers to distort the street view picture.  Below are two examples:

	Internet Explorer - this is the view that you may see inside of most Internet Explorer (IE) browsers.  Note the "bubble" effect - this should be a straight section of road. Internet Explorer 10 and prior will definitely have this problem.  IE 11 may or may not have this issue, it seems to be behaving differently on different machines. Click the image to the left to see the full size image.
	Google Chrome - the Chrome browser fully supports the Google Maps API and therefore does not have the same problems displaying the street view image. Click the image to the left to see the full size image.

The 2013 Aerial Imagery from USGS has been added to KGIS Maps Aerial map theme. To view click on the Maps tab left of the map, next click on the Aerial map theme under Standard Map. For metadata on the 2013 USGS Aerial Imagery click here. For more information, Click Here.

KGIS Maps now has support for legends!  Each map's legend can be toggled on by clicking the "Legend" tab.  The legends are dynamic and will change as one "zooms in and out".  However, it should be noted that some overlays (e.g. TCA Restriction Zones, Soil Types, etc.) may appear slightly different in the legend than they do on the map.

We have also added a link to the City Block Information documents as maintained by the City of Knoxville Technical Services Department.  When you identify a parcel located inside the City Limits,  the "Full Parcel Details" information will contain a "City Block" hyperlink to the PDF document.  Click here to see a screen shot showing the link's location.

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.

MPC & TDOT Traffic data has been updated with traffic counts for 2012 on the KGIS Maps Internet mapping site, click on the Maps tab, under Other Maps click on Traffic Counts theme.  MPC and TDOT traffic data information will display as you zoom in on the traffic station points.

Knox County Government has introduced a FREE app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch that "takes you where you need to go for recreation or Government business in Knox County Tennessee". Via the Google Maps integrated app, one can easily navigate to Knox County Government's most utilized service locations. . ...More

The User Group Meeting scheduled for Monday, July 29th has been cancelled.  The next meeting is scheduled for Monday, August 26th. 

A collaborative effort between KGIS and the Metropolitan Planning Commission has culminated in the release of a updated web-mapping application providing access to both current MPC agenda items as well as nearly 18,000 historic MPC Cases, along with related information, dating back to the early 1980’s.

The application can be accessed at MPC Cases

A new "Property Lookup" hyperlink has been added to the Parcel Results pane of KGIS Maps, thereby integrating the interactive mapping application with the Knox County Property Assessor's new "E-Gov" Property Lookup website. The information <READ MORE>