GIAC History

Let's Celebrate!

30 Years ofthe Geographic Information and Advisory Council!!!

1980s

• Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and other State Government agencies leverage GIS mapping

• NREPC adopts GIS technology to map Unmined mineral resources (ESRI user #31)

• Some Local Goverments utilize GIS

Backstory

President

Vice President

Executive Coucil Members

Jim Swain

Bruce Seigle

Raymond Leigh

Tony Sholar

William Bowdy

Mark Vogt

Larry Whitaker

Gene Stinchcomb

Mike Crain

Greg Willett

Linda Pittenger

Original GIAC Membership

1) Kentucky Transportation Cabinet

2) Cabinet for Family and Children

3) Kentucky Geological Survey

4) Revenue Cabinet

5) Department of Information Systems

6) Economic Development Cabinet

7) Department of Local Government

8) Justice Cabinet

9) Council on Post Secondary Education

10) Department of Military Affairs

11) Department of Education

12) Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet

13) Department of Agriculture

14) Public Protection Cabinet

15) Tourism Cabinet

16) Kentucky League of Cities

17) Kentucky League of Cities

18) Kentucky Association of Counties

19) Kentucky Association of Counties

20) Kentucky Chapter of the American Planning Association

21) Kentucky Association of Professionals Surveyors

22) Kentucky Society of Professional Engineers

23) Kentucky Board of Registered Geologists

24) Kentucky Council of Area Development Districts

25) Legislative Research Commission

Jon Clark

Jules Delambre

Don Haney

James Coffman

Steve Dooley

Bob Fouts

Jeff Miracle

Sgt. John Carrico

Neil Webber

John Hetzel

Ken Bates

Ruth Rowles

Jerry Deaton

Roger Recktenwald

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Kentucky GIS events and milestones as recorded in GIAC agendas

2005

2003

2001

2004

2002

1994

2000

1999

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1998

1997

1996

1995

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2021

2024

2022

2010

2020

2019

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Kentucky GIS events and milestones as recorded in GIAC agendas

2018

2013

2012

2011

• Kentucky Department of Education Front Door Project kicked off

• KyGovMaps website application and mapping gallery created

• RFP for statewide coverage of leaf-off 1 foot aerial photography and 5-foot elevation data released

• Kentucky’s LiDAR RFP released

• Digital Elevation and Photography Data Standards adopted

• KyFromAbove website created

2011

• Kentucky Aerial Photography & Elevation Data Program kick off

• Executive Summary created

• Statewide ESRI Enterprise License proposal

• NSGIC grant to create Kentucky’s Geospatial Strategic Plan

• KyStimulus Mapping site created for transparency ARRA funding

• Kentucky provides City boundaries for all Kentucky Cities to US Census Bureau

• First LiDAR data collection by watershed

2010

• Homeland Security Urban imagery program

• Land Cover
• Impervious Surfaces (e.g, parking lots, etc.)
• Canopy Cover (e.g., forested areas, etc.)

• KYTC & Kentucky's ADDs complete GPS Road statewide centerline project

• Kentucky Land Cover (KLC) project completed

• KSU – GIS Training Center opens

• First GeoCaching Event

• Flood Map Modernization Project kicks off

• Structures Data Layer Pilot Project

• KyVector and KyRaster are created

• KY Mine-Mapping Information System project begins

2004

• 2012 project area covers 50% of the state’s population

• o Kentucky recognized for its role as a leader in topographic mapping

• KGS completes Statewide 100K geologic map

1. Addressing Data
2. LiDAR Imagery/Data
3. Statewide Parcel Data

• Three top geospatial priorities/needs been identified:

• Strategic Planning Process Completed

• GIAC Logo Design Contest

2012

• First KyFromAbove 1st Acquisition

• KY State Police Public Safety Mapping Project

• Introduction of Roberta Young ("Ryan") - new program coordinator for OGI

• Phase 2 KYGNIS Names Update Project

• Kentucky’s first basemap created - KYBASE

• KYGEONET recognized with ESRI “Special Achievement Award”

• Boundaries
• Transportation
• Hydrography
• Elevation
• Orthoimagery
• Geodesy

• Digital Geological Maps (GQ maps) Complete

• Kentucky’s Statewide Digital Basemap Layers

• Land Cover
• Parcels
• Geographic Names
• Addresses
• Census
• Structures

• USGS National Map Initiative

• kygis List Serve created

2003

• DOQQ Processing

• Dichotomy over charging for data

• In-house conversion favored by grass roots group (GIS Underground)

• NREPC creates State Government data access "GIS Portal"

• Dichotomy over distribution and tiling scheme

1998

• Digital Ortho Quarter Quads Delivered

• DRG put out for free download

• 20+ datasets put out for download by NREPC & KGS

• OGIS recommends DOQQ Conversion Contract

• DRG Processing - KyGIS steps up

• KYGIS road trip to USGS Mid-Continent Mapping Center (MCMC) & ESRI St. Louis

• 100K & 24K National Hydrographic Dataset completed

• First Legislative Appropriation of Aerial photography ($16.8 million in 2022 RS)
• First statewide 6 Inch Aerial Photography Acquired
• Kentucky Oblique Imagery Data Specifications Completed & Adopted

• GIS Day Virtual Event hosted

• Kentucky Implements Statewide 911 Data Portal

• Updates to GIS and GIAC Statutes

• Kentucky Submits data to National Address Database (NAD)

• Kentucky Trail Mapping Initiative

• GIS in Emergency Response

• KyFromAbove Accomplishments

• GIS Job Classification Subcommittee created

• Western Kentucky Tornado Response
• Eastern Kentucky Flooding Response

2022

Executive Branch Enterprise GIS Portal Implemented

• Kentucky 911 Services Board – GIS Integrator & Data Portal RFP released

• Kentucky County and State boundary adopted by US Census Bureau

• Enterprise Geocoding & Routing Service created

• State Plane Coordinate System signed into law by Governor Beshear

• COVID-19 GIS collaborative Response

2020

Second meeting held December 8, 1994

• Discussed data distribution

• Discussed need for legislative funding for the basemap

• Council focus on GIS education and awareness

• Committee Signups

• KYTC Road Centerline made widely available to external (non-KYTC) users

• Voted in Chair, Vice Chair and Executive Committee members

1994

First GIAC meeting held October 27th, 1994

• Boundary Subcommittee created

• Subcommittee created to update Geoprocessor job descriptions & salaries

• State Geodetic Advisor position established (Height Modernization)

• Intelligent Road Centerline Committee formed (Address data)

• Kentucky's first vector contour layer - Tagged Vector Contours (TVC)

• State Plane Single Zone

• KYTC undertakes GPS Road centerline project with ADDs

2000

• KyTopo: Kentucky’s New Topographic Map Series is created

• KyFromAbove completes first statewide LiDAR acquisition

• KGS establishes Digital Earth Analysis Lab (DEAL)

• KyFromAbove statewide LiDAR data products and services available online

2018

• Kentucky City boundary mapping mass update project underway

• NREPC implements Ky’s first internet map viewer - "GIS basemap sampler"

• Kentucky Six Year Highway Plan IMS site

• Kentucky Facilities Index GIS Viewer

• Watershed Viewer

• Water Lines Viewer

• Geodesy Viewer

• 30 foot DEM layer completed

2001

• 2nd set of DOQQs delivered

• ArcIMS comes on the scene

• Publicly accessible AWS S3 bucket
• Directly access cloud-hosted data using QGIS, ArcGIS Pro, and browser-based apps

• KyFromAbove Explorer goes live

• kymartian moves to the cloud
• Migration to Open Data Portal and services on AGOL

KyGeoPortal migration

KyFromAbove on AWS

KyFromAbove Elevation Data

KyFromAbove 3 Inch Imagery

• KyFromAbove Explorer integration resources created

• Remaining Phase II coverage acquired

• Ortho imagery is forthcoming

• Kentucky Trail Resources hub site

• Next Gen 911 Status - Less than 10 PSAPs remain for completion of statewide GIS dataset

• Parcel Data access for State Government users

• Digital voting precinct boundaries requirement added to KRS117

GIS Spatial & Network analysis used to develop Medical Cannabis Regions

• State Board of Elections hires first GIS Staff person

2024

• Kentucky State Plane Coordinate System goes into Effect

• ­Tile packages allow imagery to be used in the field

1. Box Platform
2. ArcGIS Online Premium Data Store
3. Amazon Web Services

• Migration to Cloud-based Geospatial Data Storage

• Kentucky Recreational Trail integration begins

• Seamless statewide mosaic & services created

• Data available for download

• KyFromAbove first statewide 6" imagery complete & available

• Migration to ArcGIS Pro

• ­Parcel data sharing agreements
• Created by DOR to allow limited access to parcel data

• GIS Job Classifications Subcommittee work complete

2023

• Consumer-focused, free app, allowing maps to be easily used offline
• Kentucky maps are available for free

Kentucky Maps on the Avenza Platform

• GIS Integrator Contract Awarded to Geocom
• Data Portal Contract Awarded to Rapid Deploy

Next Gen 911

• Preserves the integrity of the work performed by the surveyor
• Removes guess work and expedites the mapping process

Digital file requirement added to City boundary Statute

2021

• Commonwealth of Kentucky's Enterprise Implementation - GIS as a Utility

• The Commonwealth Map is created

• Kentucky receives award for being the first State in the Nation to publish 12 statewide layers to the USGS National Map

• Nearly 20 internet mapping sites are online

2005

• Kentucky City mapping process completed

• Revenue Cabinet Paper Map to Digital Conversion Project

• WRIS Standard adopted

• Kentucky Raster Graphics (KRGs) created

• 133 Published Items by 12 different agencies

• Featured in the ArcUser Online October – December 2002 publication

• 20 internet mapping sites are online

• Kentucky GIS community recognizes need for collaboration and sharing

• Metadata adds value to geospatial data holdings

KyGeonet implemented

2002

• Statewide Digital Raster Graphics (DRGs) delivered

• Finance Committee Created

1997

• ESRI presentation on new product - Spatial Database Engine

• Coordination for 1st statewide aerial photography project (DOQQs)

• New Water Commission created to map water and sewer infrastructure (WRDC) - KIA

• Capitol plan for basemap funding was established

• GIS-Bug created (Bluegrass User Group) - 1st GIS User Group

• First GIAC Technical workgroups created

• Kentucky received its first USGS funding - $252,000 for basemap project

• Arcview training provided for State Government Employees

1996

• Adopted the Kentucky Metadata Standard - minimum set of the FGDC Metadata Standard (FGDC lite)

• DIS training facility was named an ESRI training site

• Water Managment plans to provide potable drinking water to all Kentucky citizens created

Statewide inventory of water and sewer infrastructure completed!!!

• Web-based data purchase site rolled out at GIS Conference in May

• To create website to sell compressed and uncompressed tiled CDs of the DOQQs

• DOQQs served up via internet servers - kymartian ftp!!! - DOQQs free online data access to public by February

• DOQQ "fetch" tool set up for State Government users

US Bureau of Census adopts KYTC road centerline data

OGIS contracts with GRW, PlanGraphics Inc and ESRI

1999

• First DOQQ Mosaic created

GIS Underground finishes up processing and works on DOQQ distribution

GIS Day celebrated for the first time on November 19, 1999

• Orthoimagery

• Geodesy

• Transportation

• Hydrography

• Boundaries

• Created GIS Layer stack diagram

• Adopted the FGDC framework data layers

1995

• Elevation

Kentucky Basemap Layers:

• Basemap Committee formed

• KYTC Real-time analysis and Big data

• Kentucky CORS network developed

• Snow & Ice Removal
• ArcGIS GeoEvent Processor

• 2012 KYAPED imagery

• Streets

2013

• Mobile app development

• ArcGIS Online Services

• New base map layers

• Access Kentucky CORS station data online

• Kentucky NG911 Mapping Guide

• Address points/site structure points - 10/31/2019
• Road centerline - 10/31/19
• Emergency service boundaries - 07/01/20
• PSAP boundary - 07/01/21

• NG911 GIS layers Requirements

• First geolocated Hospital layer created

• Law enforcement layer established

• Kentucky participates in Geo-Enabled Elections Project

2019