North River Geographic Systems, Inc

08/28/2026

Let the good times roll!

I was asked today how I rated this trip and I give it an 8 out of 10. As I was telling people in class it’s been “Pre-Katrina” since I was in Louisiana. I’m actually down h…

08/28/2026

Send Geohipster your maps!

Above is a map from the 2026 Geohipster Calendar by Antonio Smith – Noteworthy because it’s East Tennessee. The 2027 Geohipster calendar is now accepting admissions. You may think & #82…

08/05/2026

Help me....or Help you.

Through a long series of events I found myself teaching QGIS in a classroom again. It’s been a while. I used to just “hold” classes and sometime during the pandemic I jsut stoppe…

07/28/2026

More training news.....

I had mentioned it some but it’s probably been coming up on 6 months since I even mentioned training. Right before I decided to attempt to die in 2025 I had started building a training websi…

07/06/2026

The Venezuela earthquake response is still ongoing, and two new MapSwipe projects are now available for El Junquito.

Help validate building footprints to support damage assessments and humanitarian response efforts.

• El Junquito Area 1: https://bit.ly/4vfaAEY
• El Junquito Area 2: https://bit.ly/4gSI9ZW

𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙮 𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙚 𝙪𝙥𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨.

06/14/2026

Water is central to life.  Across the West, water management challenges are becoming existential concerns for communities.  From drought and groundwater management to flood risk and ecosystem health, decisions about water affect infrastructure and the environment across the region.

06/12/2026

Playing with LIDAR and QGIS.

I’ve been trying to stop once a week and do something fun with QGIS. Post Heart Incident I do a lot of walking. I’ve been re-exploring some places I used to go in town to exercise and …

06/11/2026

QGIS US Updates

I said at the start of the year I wanted to blog once a week. I’ve been simplifying my website and I just want to put “more stuff” out there. Some posts may be work related & #821…

05/14/2026

QGIS-US Virtual Meeting May 18th 12 EDT

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…