Category: News
Open source business and built environment news, updated daily.
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Homes England Publishes Open Source Land Availability Assessment Toolkit on GitHub
Homes England has open-sourced a Python-based Land Availability Assessment toolkit designed to help local planning authorities automate parts…
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OpenProject Gains Traction Among UK Architecture Practices as BIM Coordinator Tool
Open source project management platform OpenProject is seeing increased adoption among mid-sized UK architecture practices seeking an alternative…
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QGIS 3.38 Adopted by Greater Manchester Combined Authority for Strategic Planning
Greater Manchester Combined Authority has announced a full migration to QGIS 3.38 across its spatial planning and transport…
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Lichfield District Council Deploys Open-Source Digital Planning Stack Built on DLUHC PlanX
Lichfield District Council has gone live with a public-facing planning application portal built on PlanX, the open source…
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PostGIS 3.5 Released with Improved Raster Processing and Topology Performance
The OSGeo project has released PostGIS 3.5, bringing significant performance improvements to topology operations and raster data processing.…
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Bromford Housing Association Selects ERPNext to Replace Legacy Finance Platform
Bromford Housing Association has selected ERPNext, implemented via UK partner Frappe partner Systematic, to replace its ageing Capita…
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OpenStreetMap Data Powers New Flood Risk Visualisation Tool for English Councils
The Environment Agency has published a new open source flood risk visualisation toolkit that combines OpenStreetMap building footprints…
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OSArch Community Releases Open IFC Library for Structural Timber Components
The OSArch open source architecture community has published a freely licensed IFC component library covering cross-laminated timber and…
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UK Planning Inspectorate Pilots GeoServer for Appeals Geodata Publishing
The Planning Inspectorate in England is piloting GeoServer to publish geospatial datasets related to major infrastructure and recovered…