Posts tagged GPS

Know your boundaries: GIS and GPS saves local county thousands

When looking for a summer treat, Rocky Road ice cream may come to mind, but a true rocky road is never a treat. Pendleton County Public Works Director Tim Antrobus received a call from an adjoining county inquiring about road repairs on Oscar Spradling Road. Oscar Spradling had turned into a “rocky road” and the […]

STEM: Ripe for the picking

The Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce hosted a “Girls Day Out,” Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) outing for girls of junior high age on June 27th. Six companies in the area along with PDS participated in the event: ATech Training, Cincinnati Bell Technology Solutions, Duke Energy, Delta, Messer Construction, and Toyota Motor Engineering & […]

Duke Energy, NKAPC collaborate for savings on GPS training

An opportunity to coordinate training with Duke Energy and to save money in the process prompted a mapping and GPS certified training course to be held in the office of the Northern Kentucky Area Planning Commission (NKAPC) on May 22nd and 23rd. This training was led by a Trimble certified MGIS trainer, Jay Riester, who […]

Staff completes GPS-based inventory of physical assets for Kenton Fiscal Cour...

Do you know how many culverts, guardrails, and regulatory road signs are located along Kenton County’s 130+ maintained roadways? Kenton County Fiscal Court knows the answer, as well as the exact longitude and latitude for each now that NKAPC’s engineering staff has completed a county-wide inventory of these assets. “This inventory was something the county […]

Work Under Way to Protect Integrity of Northern Kentucky’s GIS Monuments

NKAPC contracted with consulting firm Woolpert recently to update the Northern Kentucky Control Network in Campbell and Kenton Counties. The effort will replace those monuments that have been damaged and will densify the network with new monuments. Monuments are used to mark exact locations on the face of the earth using degrees of longitude and […]

Kenton Fiscal Court, NKAPC to Pursue Assets Management Program with GPS

Kenton County Fiscal Court and NKAPC’s GIS staff are pursuing an assets management effort. The result of the collaboration will be a database that public works’ personnel can use to track maintenance activities and costs for each of the county’s assets as well as a highly accurate digital map that identifies the location of each. […]

GIS Staff Provides Pendleton County Emergency Services with GPS Data

Area Planning’s GIS department is working to assist emergency services providers in Pendleton County improve their response times. The work is being pursued under the latest of a series of professional services contracts between Pendleton County Fiscal Court and NKAPC. “I meet each year with members of the Fiscal Court to discuss what GIS projects […]