Category: News
Open source business and built environment news, updated daily.
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Apache Superset Chosen by Greater Manchester Combined Authority for Infrastructure Dashboards
Greater Manchester Combined Authority has selected Apache Superset as the foundation for its new infrastructure performance dashboards, covering…
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PostGIS Becomes Default Spatial Backend in UK Planning Inspectorate’s Appeals System
The Planning Inspectorate has completed migration of its national appeals casework system to a PostGIS spatial database backend,…
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Southwark Council Adopts OpenStreetMap Workflow for Planning Applications
Southwark Council has announced a new digital planning workflow built on OpenStreetMap data and the open source Mergin…
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Autodesk Rival OpenBIM Platform BlenderBIM Gains Major UK Contractor Backing
VolkerWessels UK and Kier Group have both confirmed pilot programmes using the open source BlenderBIM Add-on, which enables…
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NHS Digital and MHCLG Explore Shared ERPNext Deployment for Back-Office Functions
NHS Digital and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government are jointly evaluating a shared deployment of…
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Bracknell Forest Council Adopts ERPNext to Replace Ageing Civica Finance System
Bracknell Forest Council has gone live with ERPNext as its primary finance and procurement platform following an 18-month…
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Planning Inspectorate Pilots Open Source ePlanning Portal Built on Django and PostgreSQL
The Planning Inspectorate has launched a pilot of a new appeals submission portal developed entirely on open source…
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Apache Kafka Deployment Cuts Infrastructure Monitoring Costs at Thames Water
Thames Water has deployed an Apache Kafka-based data streaming pipeline to consolidate real-time telemetry from over 4,000 pumping…
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Gloucestershire County Council Migrates Highways Asset Management to OpenStreetMap-Based Platform
Gloucestershire County Council has completed a phased migration of its highways asset management system to an open source…
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QGIS 3.38 Release Brings Enhanced CRS Support for UK Ordnance Survey Grids
The OSGeo project has released QGIS 3.38, introducing improved coordinate reference system handling with native support for Ordnance…