GIAC History

Let's Celebrate!

30 Years ofthe Geographic Information and Advisory Council!!!

Backstory

1980s

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

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

• Some Local Goverments utilize GIS

Original GIAC Membership

Ruth Rowles

Jon Clark

14) Public Protection Cabinet

1) Kentucky Transportation Cabinet

Jules Delambre

15) Tourism Cabinet

2) Cabinet for Family and Children

Mike Crain

Don Haney

16) Kentucky League of Cities

3) Kentucky Geological Survey

Gene Stinchcomb

Jerry Deaton

James Coffman

17) Kentucky League of Cities

4) Revenue Cabinet

Steve Dooley

18) Kentucky Association of Counties

5) Department of Information Systems

Larry Whitaker

Bob Fouts

19) Kentucky Association of Counties

6) Economic Development Cabinet

Mark Vogt

Jeff Miracle

20) Kentucky Chapter of the American Planning Association

7) Department of Local Government

William Bowdy

Sgt. John Carrico

21) Kentucky Association of Professionals Surveyors

8) Justice Cabinet

Tony Sholar

Neil Webber

22) Kentucky Society of Professional Engineers

9) Council on Post Secondary Education

Raymond Leigh

John Hetzel

23) Kentucky Board of Registered Geologists

10) Department of Military Affairs

Bruce Seigle

Roger Recktenwald

24) Kentucky Council of Area Development Districts

11) Department of Education

Linda Pittenger

Ken Bates

25) Legislative Research Commission

12) Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet

Jim Swain

Greg Willett

13) Department of Agriculture

President

Vice President

Executive Coucil Members

GIAC Timeline

Kentucky GIS events and milestones as recorded in GIAC agendas

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1995

1997

1999

2001

2003

2005

2002

1996

1998

2000

1994

2004

GIAC Timeline

Kentucky GIS events and milestones as recorded in GIAC agendas

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2013

2019

2021

2023

2022

2012

2018

2020

2010

2024

2011

• Kentucky Department of Education Front Door Project kicked off

• Kentucky Aerial Photography & Elevation Data Program kick off

• Executive Summary created

• Digital Elevation and Photography Data Standards adopted

• KyFromAbove website created

• Kentucky’s LiDAR RFP released

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

• KyGovMaps website application and mapping gallery created

2010

• 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

• NSGIC grant to create Kentucky’s Geospatial Strategic Plan

• Statewide ESRI Enterprise License proposal

2004

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

• KY Mine-Mapping Information System project begins

• Structures Data Layer Pilot Project

• Flood Map Modernization Project kicks off

• First GeoCaching Event

• KSU – GIS Training Center opens

• Homeland Security Urban imagery program

• KyVector and KyRaster are created

• Kentucky Land Cover (KLC) project completed

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

2012

• First KyFromAbove 1st Acquisition

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

• Strategic Planning Process Completed

• Three top geospatial priorities/needs been identified:

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

• GIAC Logo Design Contest

• KGS completes Statewide 100K geologic map

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

2003

• USGS National Map Initiative

• Kentucky’s Statewide Digital Basemap Layers

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

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

• kygis List Serve created

• Digital Geological Maps (GQ maps) Complete

• KYGEONET recognized with ESRI “Special Achievement Award”

• Kentucky’s first basemap created - KYBASE

• Phase 2 KYGNIS Names Update Project

• KY State Police Public Safety Mapping Project

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

1998

• NREPC creates State Government data access "GIS Portal"

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

• DRG Processing - KyGIS steps up

• DRG put out for free download

• Digital Ortho Quarter Quads Delivered

• DOQQ Processing

• OGIS recommends DOQQ Conversion Contract

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

• Dichotomy over charging for data

• Dichotomy over distribution and tiling scheme

• 100K & 24K National Hydrographic Dataset completed

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

2022

• KyFromAbove Accomplishments

• 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

• Kentucky Submits data to National Address Database (NAD)

• Kentucky Trail Mapping Initiative

• GIS Job Classification Subcommittee created

• Updates to GIS and GIAC Statutes

• Kentucky Implements Statewide 911 Data Portal

• GIS Day Virtual Event hosted

• GIS in Emergency Response

• Western Kentucky Tornado Response
• Eastern Kentucky Flooding Response

2020

• COVID-19 GIS collaborative Response

• Kentucky County and State boundary adopted by US Census Bureau

Executive Branch Enterprise GIS Portal Implemented

• State Plane Coordinate System signed into law by Governor Beshear

• Enterprise Geocoding & Routing Service created

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

1994

First GIAC meeting held October 27th, 1994

Second meeting held December 8, 1994

• Voted in Chair, Vice Chair and Executive Committee members

• Committee Signups

• Council focus on GIS education and awareness

• Discussed need for legislative funding for the basemap

• Discussed data distribution

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

2000

• KYTC undertakes GPS Road centerline project with ADDs

• 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

2018

• KyFromAbove completes first statewide LiDAR acquisition

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

• KyFromAbove statewide LiDAR data products and services available online

• KGS establishes Digital Earth Analysis Lab (DEAL)

2001

• ArcIMS comes on the scene

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

• Geodesy Viewer

• Water Lines Viewer

• Watershed Viewer

• Kentucky Facilities Index GIS Viewer

• Kentucky Six Year Highway Plan IMS site

• 2nd set of DOQQs delivered

• 30 foot DEM layer completed

• Kentucky City boundary mapping mass update project underway

2024

KyGeoPortal migration

• State Board of Elections hires first GIS Staff person

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

• Digital voting precinct boundaries requirement added to KRS117

KyFromAbove Elevation Data

• Parcel Data access for State Government users

• Remaining Phase II coverage acquired

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

KyFromAbove 3 Inch Imagery

• KyFromAbove Explorer goes live

• Kentucky Trail Resources hub site

• Ortho imagery is forthcoming

• KyFromAbove Explorer integration resources created

KyFromAbove on AWS

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

GIS Spatial & Network analysis used to develop Medical Cannabis Regions

2023

• GIS Job Classifications Subcommittee work complete

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

• Migration to ArcGIS Pro

• Migration to Cloud-based Geospatial Data Storage

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

• KyFromAbove first statewide 6" imagery complete & available

• Seamless statewide mosaic & services created

• Data available for download

• ­Tile packages allow imagery to be used in the field

• Kentucky Recreational Trail integration begins

• Kentucky State Plane Coordinate System goes into Effect

2021

Digital file requirement added to City boundary Statute

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

Next Gen 911

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

Kentucky Maps on the Avenza Platform

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

2005

• Nearly 20 internet mapping sites are online

• 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

2002

• Revenue Cabinet Paper Map to Digital Conversion Project

KyGeonet implemented

• Kentucky City mapping process completed

• Metadata adds value to geospatial data holdings

• WRIS Standard adopted

• Kentucky GIS community recognizes need for collaboration and sharing

• Kentucky Raster Graphics (KRGs) created

• Featured in the ArcUser Online October – December 2002 publication

• 133 Published Items by 12 different agencies

• 20 internet mapping sites are online

1997

• First GIAC Technical workgroups created

• Finance Committee Created

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

• Capitol plan for basemap funding was established

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

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

• ESRI presentation on new product - Spatial Database Engine

• Statewide Digital Raster Graphics (DRGs) delivered

1996

• DIS training facility was named an ESRI training site

• Arcview training provided for State Government Employees

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

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

1999

GIS Underground finishes up processing and works on DOQQ distribution

• First DOQQ Mosaic created

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

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

OGIS contracts with GRW, PlanGraphics Inc and ESRI

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

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

US Bureau of Census adopts KYTC road centerline data

Statewide inventory of water and sewer infrastructure completed!!!

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

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

1995

• Basemap Committee formed

• Created GIS Layer stack diagram

• Adopted the FGDC framework data layers

Kentucky Basemap Layers:

• Boundaries

• Transportation

• Hydrography

• Elevation

• Orthoimagery

• Geodesy

2013

• New base map layers

• Streets

• 2012 KYAPED imagery

• ArcGIS Online Services

• Mobile app development

• KYTC Real-time analysis and Big data

• Snow & Ice Removal
• ArcGIS GeoEvent Processor

• Kentucky CORS network developed

• Access Kentucky CORS station data online

2019

• Kentucky participates in Geo-Enabled Elections Project

• Law enforcement layer established

• First geolocated Hospital layer created

• NG911 GIS layers Requirements

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

• Kentucky NG911 Mapping Guide