  KGS Home  Digital Geologic Mapping at Kentucky Geological
Survy  Completion of the Digital Mapping Program  The Kentucky
Geological Survey (KGS) has completed the vectorization of 707
1:24,000-scale, geologic quadrangle maps. This milestone was
reached in April, 2004 and provides Kentucky with complete
digital geologic quadrangle map (1:24,000) coverage. In the
process of vectorization, a database of geologic information,
entitled Digitally Vectorized Geologic Quadrangle (DVGQ) will be
generated and appropriate metadata will be created.
Approximately half of these DVGQ’s are already released to the
public and the remainder are undergoing final reviews and file
processing before release.  During the past decade, the Kentucky
Digital Mapping Program employed 50 staff and students who
digitized geologic quadrangles to convert them into digital
format at a cost of about 3.8 million dollars. During the
original geologic mapping program (1960-1978), over 250
geologists mapped the entire state at a cost of 20.9 mi