by rjhale | Oct 27, 2025 | 911, postgis, QGIS
I’ve been trying to write more as I get into this “New Life” thing since January. I’m not a developer. There was a time I did give it a go and it wasn’t my thing. I can write small programs that scratch an itch but they aren’t for...
by rjhale | Oct 22, 2025 | Open Source GIS, postgis, QGIS, Rambling, Small Business
It made me sad. I’m working on a project involving 911 data and it’s made me do quite a bit of thinking. The short story on this is it’s not in Tennessee. I’m taking data in it’s raw form and shoving it into that state’s NG911...
by rjhale | May 23, 2025 | 911, postgis, QGIS
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...
by rjhale | Jul 16, 2024 | postgis, QGIS
I work with two counties in TN with the TN NG911 standard. Flash back 10 years ago and I hadn’t really grasped how complicated address is. Do I like it? Mostly Yes. Occasionally I get questions from outside TN and I demo the two counties and how that works. A...
by rjhale | Jun 5, 2024 | 911, postgis, QGIS
THE PLAN…..there was a plan. Oh yes – the plan is to make editing and creating data in TN for the 911 addressing system to be as easy as possible. Menus and Triggers abound and now as two counties are using this with a third on the horizon – HOW do I...
by rjhale | Feb 7, 2024 | 911, postgis, QGIS
If you’re just tuning in I built a postgis database for the TN NG 911 project. What this has turned into is “small counties who can’t/don’t want to run with an ESRI solution”. I posted the code up on github (and I realize every day I suck...
