Category: News
Open source business and built environment news, updated daily.
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MHCLG Backs Pilot Using Open Source PropTech Tools for Brownfield Land Mapping
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has announced funding for a pilot programme using open source…
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OpenStreetMap Data Powers New Digital Planning Tool for Welsh Councils
The Welsh Government has announced that PlanX, its open source digital planning service developed in partnership with OpenSystems…
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Autodesk Rival OpenBIM Platform Speckle Raises Series A Funding
Speckle, the open source BIM data platform backed by an active developer community, has closed a £4.8 million…
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MHCLG Backs Open Source Planning Data Infrastructure With £3m Investment
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has confirmed £3 million in additional funding for the Planning…
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OpenProject Adopted by Balfour Beatty for Major Infrastructure Programme Management
Balfour Beatty has deployed OpenProject, the open source project management platform, across its UK infrastructure division to manage…
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Norfolk County Council Moves Revenues System to ERPNext, Cutting Oracle Costs
Norfolk County Council has gone live with ERPNext for revenues and benefits back-office processing, ending a long-standing dependency…
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QGIS 3.38 Deployment Expands Across Six London Boroughs
Six London boroughs, including Hackney and Lewisham, have completed a joint migration to QGIS 3.38 for spatial planning…
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OSGeo UK Chapter Launches Free PostGIS Training for Council GIS Teams
The OSGeo UK chapter has launched a structured free training programme targeting GIS officers within English and Welsh…
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Arup Contributes Structural Analysis Modules to OpenSees Open Source Platform
Engineering consultancy Arup has contributed a set of advanced structural analysis modules to the OpenSees finite element framework,…
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Lichfield District Council Migrates Planning Portal to Open Source Stack
Lichfield District Council has completed a migration of its development management system to an open source stack built…