LINK-GIS Timeline

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.  

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. Trisha Brush has article, “Cultivating Relationships, Planting Ideas and Harvesting Dreams,” published in Winter 2017 edition of 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.”

2015

Christy Powell, GISP, wins Service to KAMP award and Ryan Kent, GISP, wins Local Government and Overall best map at the annual Kentucky GIS Conference. LINK-GIS’ new map viewer tool gives users access to 30+ pieces of detailed property information with a single click. PDS’ GIS staff submits Public Safety Access Point geographic boundary data to the state, resulting in $1.1 million in funding flowing from Frankfort to E9-1-1 dispatch centers in Campbell, Kenton and Pendleton Counties. LINK-GIS rolls out new Map Viewer, using technology allowing users to utilize the new viewer on mobile devices, as well as, the desktop environment.

2015
2015

NKYmapLAB earns third place in the “large format printed map” category at the ESRI International User Conference in San Diego.

2015
2015

Trisha Brush, GISP, has an article published in the CIO Review magazine, April 2015, GIS Special Edition.