Category: News
Open source business and built environment news, updated daily.
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QGIS 3.38 Adopted by Surrey County Council for Highway Asset Management
Surrey County Council has completed a full migration from Esri ArcGIS Desktop to QGIS 3.38 across its highways…
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OpenProject Gains Traction Among UK Architecture Practices as BIM Coordination Tool
A growing number of UK architecture practices, including HawkinsBrown and Penoyre & Prasad, are trialling OpenProject as an…
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DLUHC Pilots Open Source Digital Planning Tools Across Five English Authorities
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has launched a pilot with five local planning authorities —…
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PostGIS 3.5 Released with Major Performance Gains for Large-Scale Urban Datasets
The OSGeo project has released PostGIS 3.5, delivering significant query performance improvements for large polygon datasets commonly used…
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Nottingham City Council Replaces Oracle Financials with ERPNext in Landmark Migration
Nottingham City Council has gone live with ERPNext following an 18-month migration away from Oracle Financials, becoming one…
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OpenStreetMap Data Powers New Flood Risk Visualisation Tool for UK Planners
A collaboration between the Environment Agency and the Alan Turing Institute has produced FloodView, a browser-based flood risk…
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Odoo ERP Adoption Grows Among UK Housing Associations Seeking Oracle Exit
A growing number of small to mid-tier UK housing associations are replacing Oracle E-Business Suite with self-hosted Odoo…
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Scottish Government Backs OpenStreetMap Data for National Planning Framework 4 Delivery
The Scottish Government has announced that its Planning and Architecture Division will incorporate OpenStreetMap data as a supplementary…
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QGIS 3.38 Adds Native CityGML Support, Boosting BIM-GIS Integration
The OSGeo project has released QGIS 3.38, introducing native CityGML 2.0 read and write support, a move widely…
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Leeds City Council Migrates Planning Back-Office to Open Source Stack
Leeds City Council has completed a phased migration of its development management back-office systems to an open source…