It is fall and with the changing of the leaves comes conferences.  Flat Rock had a strong presence at the 22nd Annual Minnesota GIS/LIS Conference in October at the St. Cloud Convention Center.  With several presentation and our vendor booth, we created some nice buzz with mapFeeder and Fulcrum...

LiDAR data from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is now available for the entire Twin Cities metro area!  LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) data is collected by airplanes equipped with special equipment which shoot laser light beams at the ground.  By measuring how quickly the light beams are reflected back from the ground the equipment is…

Today the 2013 FOSS4G North America Conference Committee announced that the 2013 FOSS4G North America Conference (FOSS4G-NA) will take place May 22-24 at the Marriott City Center in Minneapolis, MN.  FOSS4G brings together public and private-sector stakeholders, innovators and developers who are at the forefront of free and open source software for geospatial applications. FOSS4G-NA…

In conjunction with Arborwell and HostGIS, Flat Rock has deployed a version of MapFeeder to manage a tree inventory for the City of Berkeley, CA.  The city boasts over 50,000 trees and keeping them healthy is very important as they have a large and vibrant urban forestry program. Highlights of the application are the ability to view…

Second Harvest Heartland is running its summer food service program “Kids Eat Free” again this summer. Teaming with the Minnesota Department of Education, their goal is to fill kids nutritional gap during the summer months. Flat Rock created a Google Maps application to help people find the nearest location to their home offering this program…

The Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership (WCEP) was organized in 1999 as a joint effort between various government agencies (state and federal) and non-profits to restore a self-sustaining migratory population Whooping Cranes in eastern North America.  In order to assess the success of the project and to deal with issues in a timely fashion it was…

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.

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…

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…

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…