Category: News
Open source business and built environment news, updated daily.
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Scottish Government Backs Open Source Digital Planning Platform Built on FOSS Stack
The Scottish Government has awarded a £3.4 million development contract to a consortium led by Maevis Digital to…
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OpenStreetMap Data Powers New NHS Estates Accessibility Tool
NHS Property Services has launched a patient accessibility mapping tool built on OpenStreetMap and the open source routing…
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Planning Inspectorate Trials Open Source ePlanning Stack Ahead of DLUHC Mandate
The Planning Inspectorate is piloting an open source digital planning stack based on the DLUHC-backed Open Digital Planning…
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Nextcloud Wins Three-Year Contract with Homes England for Document Collaboration
Homes England has awarded a three-year document collaboration contract to Nextcloud GmbH, deploying the open source platform on…
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Autodesk Rival BlenderBIM Gains Traction Among Tier-Two UK Contractors
BlenderBIM, the open source IFC-native BIM authoring tool built on Blender, is seeing growing adoption among mid-sized UK…
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QGIS 3.38 Adopted by Ordnance Survey for Internal Spatial Analysis Workflows
Ordnance Survey has confirmed the adoption of QGIS 3.38 across several internal geospatial teams, replacing a legacy Esri…
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Buckinghamshire Council Deploys OpenProject for Capital Programme Management
Buckinghamshire Council has gone live with OpenProject, the open source project management platform, to coordinate its £340 million…
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OpenProject Gains Traction Among UK Architecture Practices as BIM Coordinator
A growing number of mid-sized UK architecture practices, including HawkinsBrown and BDP, are piloting OpenProject as a project…
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MHCLG Funds Open Source Digital Planning Tools Pilot Across Five Councils
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has awarded £2.3 million to a consortium of five English…
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PostGIS 3.5 Released with Major Performance Gains for Large Urban Datasets
The PostGIS development team has released version 3.5, delivering significant query performance improvements for large polygon datasets that…