11-05, 14:00–14:30 (America/New_York), Regency Ballroom B
In 2018, NRGS moved a 911 project for a small county and moved it to QGIS/PostGIS. Since then the project has gained a github repository, a wiki, and more tools.
Basically this talk will go over the good and the ugly with moving an ESRI centric project into a FOSS4G one and how opening the tools up has been better than keeping it a proprietary process. With any luck I'll try to do a demo of the tools. I should have move functionality by November as this has grow from 1 client to now 4. The weird side effect of this process is watching groups that traditionally went "We don't want a GIS" suddenly are building one with QGIS being the center point to this.
Randal Hale is owner operator of North River Geographic Systems, Inc. He’s been in the Geospatial Industry for far too long. He also hates talking in the third person. He’s currently on the board for a few organizations around the US (Georgia Geospatial, OSGEO US, and whatever QGIS US looks like). In my spare time I tend to go canoeing, possibly map something in OpenStreetMap, or go for increasingly long walks. We should go canoeing sometime.