North River Geographic
Systems Inc

 

 

Specializing in Open Source Geospatial

Need Support? Have Questions?

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.

Commercial QGIS Support

We are a commercial Support provider for QGIS. We also provide QGIS Training. If you’re looking at making a switch from your license restricted software, we can help with workflow and make your upgrade to Open Source a success.

Need a GIS?

City or County without a Geospatial System? Conservation group looking to do more? We can rollout an affordable and powerful system for your organizationusing QGIS, PostGIS, and Geoserver as well as a host of other tools.

Training

Thinking about adding more FOSS4G to your Organization? Are you looking at implementing QGIS or other software to help expand your geospatial offerings? Come take a class from NRGS! Take a class and help support the Software. 

Mergin Maps

For Mobile Data collection we use Mergin Maps. Design your forms in QGIS and deploy that form to your android of IOS device. Need more than one person collecting data? Deploy to a multi-user organizational account.

Some of our clients past and present:

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Henry County Tennessee 911
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Grass GIS
OpenStreetMap
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Grass GIS

Thoughts, Complaints, and Geo

Ramblings on Geospatial, Life, and Canoeing.

I want to ride my bicycle: Third Act

I want to ride my bicycle: Third Act

I may have done something terrible or something good. To get some of you up to speed: I'm not a web programmer...or developer...... I have been woefully ignorant of web mapping I decided to learn some leaflet by mapping bike lanes. There's more discussion if you dig...

15 years plus a Few Days…….

15 years plus a Few Days…….

So I was flooded on linkedin the other day with "Congrats on your work anniversary" and it always makes me feel weird. I was also at a potential client's location a few weeks ago and the comment was made "I heard you died". All the congrats were for 19 years of...

Playing with QGIS 3.44 Solothurn: SQL

Playing with QGIS 3.44 Solothurn: SQL

It's been a while since I've had the chance to play with a new version of QGIS. The stars have aligned so I'm digging through the changelog and testing some things out. Not that I've been super attentive for a while - BUT I have noticed the DB Manager has been a bit...

TN911: Adding Elevation

The big goal with the TN 911 project is to eliminate steps and still enter good data. I'd like to fill out as much of the database as I could with minimal work from the person putting in data. Hence I've riddled the database with triggers and made drop down lists of...

Mergin Maps Training on July 10th 2025

Mergin Maps Training on July 10th 2025

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/introduction-to-mergin-maps-tickets-1387725035939 One of the big questions I get asked on QGIS is "What's the mobile environment like?". Which leads to a whole discussion on Qfield and Mergin Maps. I'm more familiar with Mergin...

I want to ride my bicycle Part 2

I want to ride my bicycle Part 2

Shortly after getting out of the Hospital I fell. I went down hard. It was embarrassing. Probably the worst thing is it took two people to help get me up. One person was pulling me up towards the left and one person was pulling me forward...which wasn't helping my...