Category: News
Open source business and built environment news, updated daily.
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Homes England Pilots OpenProject for Capital Programme Management
Homes England, the government’s housing and regeneration agency, is piloting OpenProject as its primary tool for tracking capital…
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Bristol City Council Migrates Planning Portal to Open Source Stack
Bristol City Council has completed a migration of its public-facing planning portal to an open source technology stack…
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Blender Gains Traction in UK Architectural Visualisation Studios
A survey by the Royal Institute of British Architects has found that nearly 22 percent of UK architectural…
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Autodesk Rival OpenBIM Platform BlenderBIM Gains Traction Among SME Architects
BlenderBIM, the open source IFC-native BIM authoring tool built on Blender, is seeing rapid adoption among small and…
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LGA Backs Pilot Using OpenStreetMap Data to Improve Rural Service Delivery
The Local Government Association has announced funding for a six-month pilot in which three county councils — Shropshire,…
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Nextcloud Deployment Saves Hampshire County Council £1.2m in Microsoft Licensing
Hampshire County Council has disclosed that its two-year-old Nextcloud Hub deployment, replacing SharePoint and OneDrive for internal document…
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PostGIS and Apache Superset Stack Powers New UK Infrastructure Asset Register
Highways England has quietly launched an internal infrastructure asset visualisation platform built entirely on open source components, centring…
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Bristol City Council Moves Planning Document Management to Alfresco Open Source
Bristol City Council has completed a phased migration of its planning document management system to Alfresco Community Edition,…
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QGIS 3.38 Release Brings Improved LiDAR Processing for UK Flood Mapping
The QGIS project has released version 3.38, featuring significantly enhanced LiDAR point cloud processing tools that several UK…
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OpenStreetMap Foundation Launches UK Infrastructure Mapping Grant Programme
The OpenStreetMap Foundation has announced a new grant programme targeting improved mapping of UK infrastructure assets including utilities,…