NENA 911 Database in QGIS

NENA 911 Database in 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...
Watershed GIS Part 1

Watershed GIS Part 1

I typically spend June wondering about what I’m doing, have done, and need to do work wise. One thing I keep thinking about is “the old days”. By old days I mean the start of my career which was doing a lot of Watershed Mapping. Back in the mid...
Mergin Maps Training Class

Mergin Maps Training Class

I had a boss that would always start off with “So the Short story is….” and you’d be stuck for at least 30 minutes and maybe an hour listening to a story that didn’t go anywhere. So the short story on the Mergin Maps...
Unintended Joy

Unintended Joy

I was originally going to call this unintended consequences but – there was a small amount of joy at the end. In Tennessee you have 6 layers that are required by the NG 911 group. So you end up with a lot of information depending on the county being poured into...
Type in the TN NG911 Database

Type in the TN NG911 Database

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...
Photos in Mergin Maps

Photos in Mergin Maps

Not that this is new – Mergin has been doing this for a bit BUT I finally had the chance to sit down and use it. I have a client taking pics of houses to feed into the 911 dispatch system. Granted – not easy, not fun, and not his idea but he walked into...