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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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 while...
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 90's we would be...
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 Class.......... NRGS is a Mergin Maps partner. A...
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 the...
Geoserver upgrades
I spend a large amount of time harping about QGIS and other things up here - Never talk about Geoserver. I first "got into it" during the early OpenGeo days and slowly figured out I could run it outside of that install environment. I run it for a few clients....
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 make this...