North River Geographic Systems, Inc

04/22/2025

What do you do when you're cleaning up data. Especially address data and you get down to the sloppy part of the data cleanup? I did 80% of this in Postgresql by shaking off the cobwebs on my sql skills but this part requires visual. I have addresses assigned to roads with no street type (like roads, drives, lanes, etc). …...

What do you do when you’re cleaning up data. Especially address data and you get down to the sloppy part of the data cleanup? I did 80% of this in Postgresql by shaking off the cobwebs on my…

03/31/2025

Sometime in 2020, I ordered the ArcGIS Home Program and ran it on some virtual machine I had sitting around. My problem is I have too much fun learning things on the open source side of the house so I didn't use it a lot. As I look back I'm pretty sure I stayed in the ESRI world a good 25 years....

Sometime in 2020, I ordered the ArcGIS Home Program and ran it on some virtual machine I had sitting around. My problem is I have too much fun learning things on the open source side of the house …

03/14/2025

I hate putting in Deed calls. Some of you may call it Metes and Bounds. I usually even utter "Survey" as more of a curse than anything. There's always the Azimuth and Distance plugin but if you check the homepage you will see it's basically on life support or as it's called - maintenance mode. I did give it a shot and it got a bit flaky for me....

I hate putting in Deed calls. Some of you may call it Metes and Bounds. I usually even utter “Survey” as more of a curse than anything. There’s always the Azimuth and Distance pl…

01/28/2025

I found myself sitting in a hospital talking to a doctor: Doc: You sure you haven't had a heart attack? Me: I'm pretty sure.....Wouldn't I know? Doc: Well......Yes and no. It was a conversation I didn't want to have but there I sat having it. I didn't know this was going to turn into the longest January of my life. …...

I found myself sitting in a hospital talking to a doctor: Doc: You sure you haven’t had a heart attack? Me: I’m pretty sure…..Wouldn’t I know? Doc: Well……Yes an…

09/30/2024

In case you haven't seen the news - we had a lot of rain Last Friday. A hurricane hit Florida and then proceeded to drench a large portion of the world I Inhabit I was fine. Chattanooga was Fine. North East Tennessee and Western North Carolina aren't. The more I read up that also included parts of South Carolina and Georgia....

In case you haven’t seen the news – we had a lot of rain Last Friday. A hurricane hit Florida and then proceeded to drench a large portion of the world I Inhabit I was fine. Chattanoog…

09/24/2024

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 be one but an unnamed person shouldn't be shamed for not correcting for Central Time....

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 dur…

08/09/2024

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 thing that looked weird. Well - more than one thing BUT this was fixable....

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 w…

07/30/2024

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 choice?". So let's test some things. …...

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…

07/22/2024

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 problems spots and smoothing down the rough spots. Once I get that done I'll be teaching it/offering it at Conferences or remotely for those interested in taking it....

Cost: $150 per person for 4 hours. Location: Virtual Topics Covered: Introduction Digital Elevation Models  Symbology  Contours/Slope/Aspect 3D  LIDAR (LAS Files)  PDAL Wrench&…

07/18/2024

Through a long series of events - here we are: 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 new domain and a new website. So what does that mean? Easier for me to deal with....

https://www.northrivergeographic.com/qgis-us-users-group/

Through a long series of events – here we are: The events: qgis.us gets registered. Boundless takes the domain to Planet. Planet doesn’t pay the domain registration costs Through the b…

07/16/2024

September 9 – 11, 2024, St. Louis, MO

07/16/2024

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 back someone called and went "Hey - Did you know the NENA 911 databse setup script is up in GitHub?...

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 questi…