Kairos Newsletter

Russell F. Schimmer   •   June 25, 2024

Issue No. 1

We pushed through some additional small fixes to the K-Interface over the weekend. One item we are hoping to resolve by week's end has to do with the number of records selected in the Permit Fields display and carrying them over to the Bonds Fields or Violation Fields display. For example, when selecting more than 100 records to carry over, this function results in an error forcing one to clear the search entirely. By not selecting any records, however, cycling through the different field display groups is not a problem.

We also pushed up some new regulatory data and spruced up some existing. We still are hovering at 10 jurisdictions with mixed commodities. These jurisdictions are fully complemented datasets now, meaning covering the three primary data types (Permit, GIS, Bonds, and Violations), and we have exceeded well over 100,000 records in Kairos. So this week we are planning to bring up two to three more jurisdictions from our mainframe into the Kairos environment.

For PA DEP, you might see some bond numbers in scientific notation. For a few bonds, the agency records incredibly long number strings. So for now we entered them as scientific notation into the Kairos system.

Lastly, among new K-Interface tools we are developing, soon we will roll out a tool for exporting geographic information from Kairos in two file formats, GeoJson and KMZ, the latter of which can be opened directly in Google Earth.

Our next Kairos Update will provide details on our objectives to integrate agency data for Oil and Gas and for Landfills into Kairos.

Kairos  .   .  .  Simple, yet dynamic

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