North River Geographic
Systems Inc
Specializing in Open Source Geospatial
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Delivering 911 Data to the State of TN? We offer a solution centered around PostGIS/QGIS/Geoserver and other open source geospatial components to help you create maintain, and deliver data to the state. QGIS can be installed on as many desktops as needed at no extra charge. Deliver data to your Dispatch? We can deliver Shapefiles, File Geodatabases, and several other formats. Once installed we offer technical support, training, and any other help you might need.
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Update on the TN 911 Database
After not saying much up here for the last month - here's an update on the TN 911 Database. To catch you up if you don't know - Tn has a NG911 setup and generally 97% of everyone is running ESRI Arc Something to input data. A few years ago I moved one county over to...
Tips for Data Cleanup: Virtual Layers
What do you do when you're cleaning up data. Especially address data and you get down to the sloppy part of the data cleanup? I did 80% of this in Postgresql by shaking off the cobwebs on my sql skills but this part requires visual. I have addresses assigned to roads...
Opening a ArcPro Template in QGIS
Sometime in 2020, I ordered the ArcGIS Home Program and ran it on some virtual machine I had sitting around. My problem is I have too much fun learning things on the open source side of the house so I didn't use it a lot. As I look back I'm pretty sure I stayed in the...
GRASS and m.cogo
I hate putting in Deed calls. Some of you may call it Metes and Bounds. I usually even utter "Survey" as more of a curse than anything. There's always the Azimuth and Distance plugin but if you check the homepage you will see it's basically on life support or as it's...
Once upon a time
I found myself sitting in a hospital talking to a doctor: Doc: You sure you haven't had a heart attack? Me: I'm pretty sure.....Wouldn't I know? Doc: Well......Yes and no. It was a conversation I didn't want to have but there I sat having it. I didn't know this was...
Paper Maps or Something close
In case you haven't seen the news - we had a lot of rain Last Friday. A hurricane hit Florida and then proceeded to drench a large portion of the world I Inhabit I was fine. Chattanooga was fine. North East Tennessee and Western North Carolina aren't. The more I read...