San Diego, California - July 15, 2009 - The Knoxville Knox County KUB GIS (KGIS) in Tennessee received a Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award today at the 2009 ESRI International User Conference (ESRI UC) in San Diego, California. The organization received this honor for its vision, leadership, and innovative use of ESRI's geographic information system (GIS) technology. KGIS was selected from more than 300,000 organizations worldwide and recognized during today's SAG awards ceremony for making extraordinary contributions to our global society.

KGIS serves more than 1,000 Knoxville, Knox County, and Knoxville Utility Board (KUB) employees across 30 government agencies and departments and provides an online GIS to the area's resident population of more than 400,000. The centrally administered GIS is maintained by personnel who are located throughout the various enterprises. The GIS database is the primary source for cadastral and parcel ownership transactions, site addresses and street names, utility assets and easements, jurisdiction boundaries, and emergency response zones. read more....