LINK-GIS Timeline

2025
2025

LINK-GIS was recognized by ESRI as one of the Map Gallery Finalists for the Reference category with the Campbell County Road Index map.

2025
2025

Kenton County Land Use map was selected for inclusion in ESRI Map Book, Volume 40 (2025). Highlights development patterns and supports long-term planning discussions. Result of classifying raw satellite imagery into use categories based on return values. Land use classifications may also be refined using property ownership records and other supporting data sources.

2024
2024

Megan and Gladys were awarded the APA-KY 2024 Award Nomination for Outstanding Use of Innovative Technology. This statewide award stems from their work analyzing Riparian Buffers for the new zoning ordinances. Their work was instrumental in communicating and visualizing the effects of new regulations so decision-makers could comprehend the impact of policy decisions.  

2022
2022

Kenton County Land Use Zoning Development Map | 2022 Esri Map Book (Volume 37, page 128) | Redlands, CA: Esri Press

2020
2020

Article written by Trisha Brush, GISP, and Louis Hill, GISP, titled “Send Up the Drone” is featured in the November 2020 edition of ESRI’s online Newsroom, ArcWatch.

2020

Ryan Hermann wins the KAMP, Service to the GIS Community, award. Louis Hill, GISP, and Tom East, GISP, are awarded Fellow of KAMP honors (the highest honor KAMP bestows upon an individual).

2018
2018

Maps Tell the Story in Kenton County in the Kentucky Chapter of the American Planning Association’s Outstanding Use of Innovative Technology award. https://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/arcwatch/maps-tell-the-story-in-kenton-county

2017
2017

LINK-GIS/PDS staff members Trisha Brush and Emi Randall present at the 2017 GeoDesign Summit in Los Angeles, CA. Article “Cultivating Relationships, Planting Ideas and Harvesting Dreams,” is published in Winter 2017 edition. ESRI’s ArcUser magazine, page 24.

2016

LINK-GIS wins the KAMP Exemplary System Award. Staff member, Louis Hill elected president of KAMP; will serve organization for two years. LINK-GIS wins 1st Place at the KAMP GIS Conference Map Gallery with the map “Historic Licking Riverside Neighborhood – 2013 APA Great Neighborhood.” LINK-GIS wins Kentucky Chapter APA “Outstanding Use of Technology” for NKYmapLAB.

2016
2016

Walkability & Parks Maps published in the “ESRI Map Book Vol. 31.”