Most areas of urbanized Kenton County are served by sidewalks on one or both sides of the street. While this is due largely to local requirements for construction of sidewalks on both sides of the street, no data are available currently on where sidewalks exist. That’s about to change. A comprehensive inventory of sidewalks in […]
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Aerial Photos of Tornado Damage
The GIS staff has created a website that allows the user to compare aerial photography in the Piner area from 2010 and March 2012. The photography covers the area affected by the March 2nd tornado. Address: http://linkgis.org/tornado/
Let the flakes fly! New GIS tool will help residents know the status of local...
Though the weather outside is frightful, LINK-GIS users in Kenton County will soon have a tool that is so delightful! With the click of the mouse, they will be able to find the work status of snow and ice removal crews for roads they travel during a snow event. Chris Warneford, Kenton County’s public works […]
RFP Has Been Issued for Upcoming Aerial Imagery and Digital Data Acquisition
RFP Document and Technical Specifications for: Aerial Imagery Acquisition, Digital Orthoimagery Production, LiDAR Acquisition, Digital Elevation Dataset Production, Digital Oblique Aerial Imagery Acquisition/Production & Associated Application Software, and Photogrammetric Updates and New Compilation of GIS Planimetric Mapping Please use this link to view the RFP To download the county boundaries, grid layout and monumentation control, […]
Aerial Photos Through the Years Available on LINK-GIS Website
Among many recent changes and improvements to the LINK-GIS website was the addition of the Historic Imagery widget. This tool is available on the LINK-GIS Map Viewer. Users are able to transition images from an eleven year span to see changes to buildings, roads, and land cover. Aerial photos from 1999, 2004, 2007, and 2010 […]
Additional polling place information
In addition to the precinct maps available in the online store and the precincts and polling information available in the LinkGIS Viewer, we are pleased to announce additional information available about the polling locations. Each polling location has a two hyperlinks. One connects to a photo of the location while the other links to driving […]
Regional use of tool for road construction coordination saves tax-, rate-paye...
Well into its first year of use, NKAPC’s online tool that allows jurisdictions and utilities to coordinate road construction and maintenance projects is proving to be very successful and saving participants a lot of money. Currently, the Kenton and Campbell County Fiscal Courts, a number of cities in each county, the water and sanitation districts, […]
New features of LINK-GIS website draw speaking invitations and regional atten...
Redesigned with a fresh appearance and rebuilt with greater functionality, NKAPC’s new LINK-GIS website is drawing the attention of jurisdictions throughout the metropolitan area and beyond. The visual elements are the first thing noticed on the new page, however, it’s the website’s new My Community viewer and Online Store function that has other jurisdictions interested. […]
LINK-GIS partnership expands focus; offers Pictometry to local governments
The LINK-GIS partnership signed contracts recently with Pictometry International Corp. for new aerial images of Campbell and Kenton Counties. When uploaded into its system, these new digital images will provide jurisdictions in both counties with two ways to view their territories—the traditional bird’s-eye view and now a 3D view. Pictometry captures high-resolution images obliquely—or from […]