AIMS stores a wide array of spatial datasets for Johnson County, from aerial imagery to water valves. If there is some type of spatial feature inside Johnson County, AIMS probably has it cataloged in a database. You can view and acquire attribute information for a majority of our datasets through the Johnson County Online Mapping application. If you are interested in a dataset that you may not have been able to find on our site, or if you have an idea for a new one please don't hesitate to call and speak with the Mapper of the Day (913-715-1600) about it. More information about accessing AIMS data is in the various sections below (click each section to expand it).
AIMS offers a variety of data that users can use for free, purchase or download and use within web applications. If you are interested in obtaining data to use in your own applications please check out one of the links below.
Digital Data Request (DDR)
This application provides data that is available for purchase and download through a simple online interface. This application allows users to request property, planimetric (elevation, buildings, etc...), orthophotography, and aerial photography datasets, define the extent for which they are requesting data and purchase the data with a credit card.
Free Data
AIMS offers a variety of datasets, available for download in shapefile, DWG and XML formats, free of charge. This includes data such as bike routes, parks and trails, school districts, major roads, FEMA flood and environmental data sets.
AIMS Server Services AIMS produces several ArcGIS Server services that are available for download and use, free of charge. These web services can be viewed using ArcMap, ArcGIS Explorer, ArcGIS.com or Google Earth. They can be included in web applications or viewed in an ArcMap session.
Data pricing is dependent upon the type of data partner you are. There are three types of data partners: Government, Utility and Business. If you are not a data partner, then follow the Data on Demand pricing. If you are interested in becoming a data partner, please visit our Data Partner page to learn more.
Data Partner licensing is a method for users to obtain digital data from the AIMS program at a reduced price. In return, the data partner is asked to share data back to AIMS. The data available for licensing includes property, planimetrics, contours, orthophotography, historical imagery, street centerlines, city boundaries, census, subdivision and plat boundaries. See Data Prices for a complete list of licensable data and associated costs. For more information on becoming a data partner, please contact the Mapper of the Day at mapper@jocogov.org or 913-715-1600.
The County retains ownership of the licensed data, therefore the licensee is not allowed to transfer the license or sell or share the data with others, such as subcontractors, without prior approval from the County. In the case of subcontractors, the AIMS Department must be notified in writing, on company letterhead, of the name of the outside agency, contact names and numbers, the area desired, and a statement claiming that the data will only be used for this project and will be removed upon completion. The licensee would not be allowed to reproduce or use the data for solicitation, or the creation of hard copy products to be sold to others.
Types of Data Partners
There are three categories of data partners depending on the type of organization - Government, Utility and Miscellaneous. View the complete Data Partner list to see a directory of current data partners.
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- Miscellaneous Business - Organizations that request data on an as-needed basis for user-specified extents, such as engineering, title and real estate companies.
- Miscellaneous data partners can access digital data through the Digital Data Request application (DDR).
- Usernames and passwords will be given to access DDR. Users are required to sign in to receive price discounts for the data.
- A record is kept of all conversion requests and can be viewed through DDR.
- Conversion formats include DXF, DWG, DGN, Shape (vector) and TIF and MR. SID (raster).
- Government and Utility - Organizations that need data for a specific, non-changing extent, such as school districts, cities, and utilities.
- License fees vary, according to the type and amount of data requested.
- Frequency of data updates and access is dependent upon the licensee.
- Minimum fee of $300 is required.
- Miscellaneous Business - Organizations that request data on an as-needed basis for user-specified extents, such as engineering, title and real estate companies.
Data Licensing Procedure
If you are interested in pursuing a data access license, please contact Jerry Swingle at jerry.swingle@jocogov.org or 913-715-1600. You will be asked to provide either by mail (Automated Information Mapping System, 111 S Cherry St Suite 2000, Olathe KS 66061) or by fax (913-715-2251) the following information on company letterhead, signed by a company representative (please make fax or mail request attention Jerry Swingle):
A license Agreement will then be drafted by the County’s Legal Department and reviewed and approved by the members of the System Management Committee (SMC), which consists of the County Appraiser, County Treasurer, and County Clerk. The Agreements will then be approved by the AIMS Director and mailed to you for your representative’s approval and signature. This process usually takes 2-4 weeks. For government licensees the license would be in effect for a period of one year, beginning on the date the agreement is signed by your agencies representative, the license may be renewed each year thereafter; a renewal notice will be sent to the licensee approximately two months prior to the expiration date of the license. For miscellaneous business licensees, the licensee will remain in effect until written notice of termination is provided to the licensee or AIMS.
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- List the specific types of data you wish to license, i.e., property, planimetrics/topo, aerials, etc.
- List the types of data you would be willing to share with AIMS.
- Describe what type of business you are and explain what type of projects the company intends to use the data for.
Imagery is a very important aspect of the GIS and mapping world, the old addage a picture is worth a thousand words could be changed to a picture is worth a thousand maps. We could make many maps of an area but without actually seeing an image we may never fully understand the map. Currently AIMS maintains three different Johnson County-wide imagery datasets, each one has its own uses and specifications. To learn more about these datasets please click on one of the following links.
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- Means of creation of the data
- Purpose of the data
- Time and date of creation
- Creator or author of the data
- Location on a computer network where the data were created
- Standards used
All of AIMS data is projected using the following parameters:
- Projection: State Plane North (3926)
- Horizontal Datum: North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83)
- Vertical Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88)
- Units: US Feet
- Spheroid: GRS1980333.333333333
- False Northing: 0
- 1st Standard Parallel: 38.71666666666667
- 2nd Standard Parallel: 39.78333333333333
- Latitude of Projection Origin: 38.33333333333334
- Central Meridian: -98.0
It should be noted that the State Plane Coordinate System is not a projection. It is a coordinate system that divides all fifty states, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands into over 1220 numbered zones. Construction of a coordinate system for each zone is based on one of three projections: the Lambert Conformal Conic, the Transverse Mercator or the Oblique Mercator. Each zone has an assigned USGS code number, each having a designated central origin that is specified in degrees. Generally used on 7.5 and 15-minute topographic quadrangles. The State Plane coordinate system for Kansas is divided into two zones, North and South, and is based on the Lambert Conformal Conic projection.
