Category: News
Open source business and built environment news, updated daily.
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Leeds City Council Pilots OpenProject for Major Infrastructure Programme Management
Leeds City Council is piloting OpenProject, the open source project management platform, to coordinate its West Yorkshire Mass…
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OpenStreetMap Data Powers New Digital Planning Tool for Scottish Councils
A consortium of Scottish local authorities, including Stirling and Perth & Kinross Councils, has launched a digital planning…
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Nextcloud Deployment Saves Hampshire County Council £800k in Microsoft Licensing
Hampshire County Council has reported annual savings of approximately £800,000 following its full migration to Nextcloud Hub for…
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PostGIS 3.5 Released with Improved 3D Topology and Point Cloud Support
The OSGeo project has released PostGIS 3.5, introducing significant enhancements to 3D topology validation and native point cloud…
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Odoo ERP Chosen by Midlands Construction SME to Replace Sage 50
Coventry-based contractor Sherbourne Build has gone live with Odoo 17 Community Edition, replacing a long-standing Sage 50 Accounts…
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OpenStreetMap Data Powers New National Brownfield Land Register Tool
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has released a prototype planning tool that combines OpenStreetMap base…
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Nextcloud Deployment Cuts SaaS Spend at Mid-Sized Architecture Practice
London-based architecture practice Haworth Tompkins has replaced Microsoft SharePoint and Dropbox Business with a self-hosted Nextcloud instance, reducing…
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LibreOffice Migration Completes Across 14 Welsh Local Authorities
A collaborative procurement initiative led by the Welsh Local Government Association has seen fourteen Welsh councils complete a…
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Planning Inspectorate Pilots GeoServer-Based Open Data Portal for Appeal Decisions
The Planning Inspectorate in England has launched a pilot open data portal built on GeoServer and PostGIS, making…
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Nextcloud Chosen by Nottinghamshire County Council to Replace SharePoint Collaboration Tools
Nottinghamshire County Council has selected Nextcloud Hub as the foundation for its internal document collaboration and file sharing…