LINK-GIS Timeline
LINK-GIS staff provides hands-on GIS support for Northern Kentucky University and Thomas More College students. LINK-GIS staff member Tom East was asked to speak about NextGen 9-1-1 at the 39th Annual Kentucky Association of Counties (KACo) Conference held the Galt House in Louisville. The Kentucky Association of Mapping Professionals (KAMP) Service to GIS/Mapping Community award was presented to Christy Powell GISP, of LINK-GIS staff. Several of the LINK-GIS staff attended training seminars for WebEOC (Web Emergency Operation Control) and RAVEN911 (Regional Asset Verification & Emergency Network). A comprehensive inventory of sidewalks in Kenton County is pursued by NKAPC staff to create documentation which can assist legislative bodies with future planning efforts.
Maps and data support for local tornadic event for building inspectors, emergency response and FEMA teams on the ground. LINK-GIS LiDAR data is used in a Kentucky Geological Survey report on landslides in the Campbell and Kenton Counties. LINK-GIS team makes presentations to local National Weather Service and forms relationships for future collaboration. SOW was created to work with the City of Elsmere for assets management inventory. Presented Snow Tracker at ESRI User Conference and KY GIS Conference. Upgrade/update LINK-GIS website map viewer for easier use and access to information with fewer clicks of the mouse. QAQC Campbell County FEMA Preliminary Floodplain maps. Provide ArcReader projects, data and training to Campbell County Office of Emergency Management. Put together multiple maps, tables and data for Kenton County Governance Study Group for various county analysis.
Assisted KC Clerk with reapportionment mapping, voting precinct mapping and voting location mapping. QAQC the Kenton County FEMA Preliminary Floodplain maps.
Joe Busemeyer, GISP, presented on the Covington Asset Management project at the ESRI 2011 International User Conference and also submitted map to large format map gallery.
RFP issued and then negations with the Commonwealth of Kentucky contract awarded aerial photography major update project with PhotoScience, Inc. to provide new aerial photography and updated data for Campbell, Kenton and Pendleton Counties. This is the first time the digital imagery and IR technology was captured for the partnership. LINK-GIS wins statewide award, “Service to the Mapping Community” at Kentucky Association of Mapping Professionals (KAMP) conference. LINK-GIS team member wins state web applications contest at the KAMP conference.
Christy Powell, GISP, has an article published in GeoWorld magazine, November 2011, Special Government Issue.
Historic imagery slider rolls out on LINK-GIS website. Old Mylar maps back to 1962 that were scanned, geo-referenced and cached.
LINK-GIS staff, Christy Powell, GISP and Joe Busemeyer, GISP, develop and roll out ‘Snow Tracker’, an interactive map for Kenton County Public works to show the public what roads have been treated during a snow event.
Staff provides technical assistance to local governments for 2010 US Census. LINK-GIS/Erlanger collaboration earns recognition for city’s dispatch service. LINK-GIS relaunches website, with an updated look and feel and new mapping technology.
WebFOCUS presented at the 2009 ESRI International User Conference. Highly-accurate LINK-GIS topography data wows professional surveyors’ association. NKAPC hosts E-911 dispatch workshop aimed at mapping standards certification. LINK-GIS among those invited to participate in Library of Congress preservation effort. GIS website getting functional overhaul; more information will be easier to access. LINK-GIS partnership readies online tool to facilitate road construction coordination. Partnership rolls out video production highlighting uses of GIS technology. Campbell County cable television prepares to broadcast LINK-GIS video production.
