Planning and Development Services of Kenton County (PDSKC), on behalf of the LINK-GIS Partnership, is accepting proposals from aerial survey firms for Aerial Imagery Acquisition, Digital Orthoimagery Production, LiDAR Acquisition, Digital Elevation Dataset Production and Photogrammetric Updates to, or New Compilation of, GIS Planimetric Mapping for Kenton and Campbell Counties in Kentucky. A zip-compressed file […]
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LINK-GIS Adds Pictometry Widget to the Map Viewer
Users of the LINK-GIS map viewer can now view oblique imagery in just a couple clicks. LINK-GIS contracted with EagleView (formerly Pictometry) to fly oblique imagery for Campbell and Kenton Counties in 2018. EagleView developed a widget for use on ESRI’s Java Script API applications, as a way to view their oblique imagery in the […]
NKYdroneLAB Selected by URISA as Distinguished System (Letter from URISA)
August 2, 2018 Trisha W. Brush, GISP Director of GIS Services Kenton and Campbell Counties of Kentucky 2332 Royal Drive Fort Mitchell KY 41017-2088 Dear Trisha: Congratulations! I am so pleased to inform you that “NKYdroneLAB” has been selected by URISA’s Exemplary Systems in Government (ESIG) Review Committee to receive recognition as a Distinguished System. […]
PDS services now include photography from ‘unmanned aerial vehicle’
PDS recently added video and photography capabilities from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to the services available to all Kenton County jurisdictions. Photos, videos, ortho-mosaics, 3D renderings, elevation profiles, volume calculations, digital terrain models, digital surface models, emergency services, accident reconstructions, and search and rescue flights are now available through its One Stop Shop Program. […]
LINK-GIS is an ever-growing treasure trove of geospatial data
LINK-GIS is all about data. Thirty-two years’ worth of data. Fourteen terabytes of data… a number that grows incrementally each day as the world changes around us. Consider this: · Over 2017 PDS processed 954 building permits; each new building prompts changes to GIS data. · PDS inspected 7,540 linear feet of surface asphalt and […]
GIS staff takes on keeping RoW management data up to date
PDS’ GIS staff believes so strongly in the capabilities of a software program that it’s committed to inputting local data to help Kenton and Campbell jurisdictions save precious tax dollars. Staff members are reaching out now to the counties, the municipalities, and the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet for their 2018 pavement projects so they can be […]
Maintaining master address database is critical and frustrating work
Have you ever mistakenly received someone else’s mail or had a package delivered that wasn’t yours because your address was similar to the address on the label? Does your street name end in “Drive” while another identically-named street ends in “Road”? These are just two of many addressing situations causing problems for people every day. […]
GIS partners pursue visioning session, establish new priorities
Since its inception in the mid-1980s, LINK-GIS has become a vast warehouse of spatial data for the community and a core technology that supports many mission-critical public services. These facts were the central focus of a day-long visioning session held in late June at the GE Global Operations Center in Cincinnati. The system’s growth and […]
GIS story map provides focus for state legislative hearing
Recent Northern Kentucky mapLAB products were a focal point during the June 7th meeting of the General Assembly’s Interim Joint Committee on Tourism, Small Business, and Information Technology. The electronic story map and accompanying poster product highlight the 11.5-mile-long Riverfront Commons trail in Northern Kentucky. “We worked carefully with Southbank Partners and Strategic Advisors to […]
GIS data being merged with Minecraft—yes THAT Minecraft
Fifty-five million people a month play the video game sensation Minecraft. Created and designed by Swedish game designer Notch Persson, and later fully developed and published by Mojang, its creative and building aspects enable players to build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D-generated world. Soon, players will be able to use Kenton County as a base for […]