Category: News
Open source business and built environment news, updated daily.
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LibreOffice Deployment Saves Dudley Metropolitan Borough £320,000 in Licence Fees
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council has published a case study detailing its 2023 migration of 4,200 desktop workstations from…
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PostGIS and pgRouting Drive Network Analysis in National Highways Asset Management System
National Highways has deployed a new internal road asset management platform built on PostgreSQL, PostGIS, and pgRouting, replacing…
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Odoo ERP Selected by Nottingham City Council Arm’s-Length Company for Finance Overhaul
Nottingham City Council’s wholly owned property management company, Nottingham City Homes, has selected Odoo 17 Community Edition as…
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QGIS 3.38 Adopted by Bristol City Council for Spatial Planning Workflows
Bristol City Council has completed a full migration from Esri ArcGIS Desktop to QGIS 3.38 across its spatial…
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OpenStreetMap Data Powers New Digital Planning Portal for Welsh Authorities
The Welsh Government has confirmed that OpenStreetMap will serve as the base cartography layer for its new Planning…
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Lambeth Council Migrates Revenues System to Open Source Stack
Lambeth London Borough Council has completed a phased migration of its revenues and benefits platform to an open…
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OpenBIM Alliance Backs IFC Schema Expansion for Net Zero Reporting
The OpenBIM Alliance has announced an extension to the open IFC schema to support embodied carbon and whole-life…
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Planning Inspectorate Trials Open Source Case Management Tool
The UK Planning Inspectorate has begun a trial of OpenCRX, an open source customer relationship and case management…
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Nextcloud Gains Ground in UK Architecture Practices Amid Data Sovereignty Concerns
A growing number of UK architecture practices, including Haworth Tompkins and Stanton Williams, have adopted Nextcloud as a…
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ODK and PostGIS Power Highways Asset Survey for Shropshire Council
Shropshire Council has deployed a mobile data collection pipeline using OpenDataKit (ODK) and PostGIS to accelerate its statutory…