News / Events
Flat Rock in the News!
The Line magazine has published a story on how Flat Rock Geo was founded. The Line is an online magazine dedicated to telling stories of the new economy, covering topics from business, the ‘best places’ to work and play.
Apr, 2012
Registration for Spatial Hotdish Has Closed
Spatial Hotdish is a friendly, team-based map/geo hack-a-thon ‘competition’ combining people from the web development and “traditional GIS“ communities in the Twin Cities. Think… Iron Chef with a geospatial (and Minnesota) twist! Work on a team to create a browser-based spatial data visualization using data that you find and a few last-minute secret ingredients. We’re .. read more
Mar, 2012
Assessing Tornado Damage with Mobile GIS
On May 22, 2011 a tornado touched down in the Twin Cities, tearing a destructive path through the City of Fridley. Flat Rock Geographics (formerly GIS Rangers) has been meeting the city’s GIS needs for over 10 years. When the city called upon us to help assess and map the damage, we choose to deploy a mobile .. read more
Jan, 2012
Northstar Geographics and GIS Rangers have merged!
We are thrilled to announce the merger of Northstar Geographics and GIS Rangers into a single new company – Flat Rock Geographics, LLC. So why the change? Northstar Geographics and GIS Rangers have been tossing each other work for the last couple of years. As we worked more and more closely, it became apparent that .. read more
Jan, 2012
Mapping the Community Organizer’s Brain
A recent Star Tribute article highlighted the fantastic community GIS that St. Paul’s District 7 “Frogtown” neighborhood has created. Over the years Tait Danielson Castillo, executive director of the Frogtown Neighborhood Association has used many student interns to create simple maps for the neighborhood using ESRI desktop software. However, as is often the case there was no continuity .. read more
Jan, 2012
What I did at my first FOSS4G Conference
While writing this blog my wife said to me, “Isn’t it too late to write about that conference in Denver?”. My boss — who paid my way to FOSS4G — felt the sam way. He would have liked to have seen this come out a bit sooner. I contend that waiting a few weeks, letting .. read more
Oct, 2011
Mapping and Measuring Minnesota’s Water Quality
RMB Environmental Laboratories (RMB) in Detroit Lakes, MN, works with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) to provide free water quality reports on many lakes throughout the state. Along with a laboratory analysis of each lake’s amount of phosphorus and chlorophyll-a, other observations such as water clarity, water levels, rainfall amounts and recreational suitability are also documented. read more
Aug, 2011
NSG attending Where 2.0 Conference
Where 2.0 Conference Santa Clara, CA April 19-21 The Business of Location No booth this year but Paul will be at the workshops and the full conference. Tweet him at @northstargis if you want to talk GIS, location intelligence, or about his mapFeeder and Geocruncher projects.
Feb, 2011
Flat Rock will be at Location Intelligence conference in Chicago
Enterprise Strategies for Location Intelligence Chicago, March 30-31 North America’s first location intelligence conference will address the needs of and challenges faced by companies selling to enterprise. Visit the Flat Rock Geographics booth and learn more about GeoCruncher and how it can help your business become more geographically intelligent.
Feb, 2011
Paul to teach Open Source GIS workshop in Toronto
Open Source GIS Workshop Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Toronto, March 28-29 Managing Geospatial Metadata with GeoNetwork Open Source Flat Rock Geographics Principal Consultant, Paul Wickman will be teaching a workshop on using GeoNetwork Open Source for for managing geospatial metadata.
Feb, 2011