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.
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Ramblings on Geospatial, Life, and Canoeing.
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…….
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
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
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
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...