North River Geographic
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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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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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Thoughts, Complaints, and Geo

Ramblings on Geospatial, Life, and Canoeing.

QGIS US User Group

QGIS US User Group

by | Sep 24, 2024 |

I've been too busy to write anything as of late. I have a lot to talk about - just not much time to do it. So FOSS4GNA happened on Sept 9-11 2024. Probably the biggest thing for me during the conference was we had two BOFs on QGIS. Granted - I think it was supposed to...

Watershed Geo Part 2

Watershed Geo Part 2

by | Aug 9, 2024 |

Part 1 This is part 2 which will be pretty simple. This is more of the "get organized" part. In part 1 I was able to generate a watershed boundary from LIDAR Elevation Data. After it was generated I went back and checked the watershed line and really only found one...

Geoserver Rabbit Holes

Geoserver Rabbit Holes

by | Jul 30, 2024 | ,

TL/DR - Funding is Hard. Last week I ran down a rabbit hole. While I'm passable as a sysadmin - my skills are lacking in some areas. I had a conversation with someone on hardware and software and we ended on "How would you run this 911 stack of software if you had the...

QGIS and LIDAR

by | Jul 22, 2024 | ,

So this will be my last "New Class" announcement for a bit. Back in the spring of 2024, I taught a 4 hour QGIS and LIDAR class at the TNGIC meeting (State of TN GIS meeting). I ran through it and shelved it and now I'm fixing the problem spots and smoothing down the...

QGIS US Users Group

by | Jul 18, 2024 |

Through a long series of events - here we are: https://qgis-us.org The events: qgis.us gets registered. Boundless takes the domain to Planet. Planet doesn't pay the domain registration costs Through the best efforts of a lot of good people - it's gone. So - we have a...

NENA 911 Database in QGIS

NENA 911 Database in QGIS

by | Jul 16, 2024 | ,

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...