Category: News
Open source business and built environment news, updated daily.
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QGIS 3.38 Adoption Grows Among UK Council Planning Departments
A growing number of English district councils, including South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse, have migrated their…
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OpenProject Replaces Microsoft Project Across Major UK Construction Contractor
Kier Group has completed a phased rollout of OpenProject across its infrastructure division, replacing Microsoft Project for portfolio…
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Ordnance Survey Opens New Data API Built on GeoServer and PostGIS
Ordnance Survey has launched a refreshed developer API for its National Geographic Database, with the backend infrastructure rebuilt…
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Bristol City Council Pilots Nextcloud for Secure Internal Document Sharing
Bristol City Council has launched a six-month pilot of Nextcloud Hub as a self-hosted alternative to Microsoft SharePoint…
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Planning Inspectorate Evaluates Open Source ePlanning Stack Based on Apache Solr
The Planning Inspectorate in England is evaluating a new case search and document indexing system built on Apache…
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Maidstone Borough Council Adopts LibreOffice Following Microsoft 365 Cost Review
Maidstone Borough Council in Kent has announced a phased rollout of LibreOffice across approximately 800 staff desktops following…
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PostGIS 3.5 Enhances 3D Building Data Support for Urban Digital Twins
The release of PostGIS 3.5 has introduced improved support for LoD2 three-dimensional building geometry, a development welcomed by…
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QGIS 3.38 Rolls Out Improved CRS Handling for UK OS Data
The QGIS project has released version 3.38, featuring significantly improved handling of British National Grid coordinate reference systems,…
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Homes England Pilots OpenProject for Capital Programme Management
Homes England, the government’s housing and regeneration agency, is piloting OpenProject as its primary tool for tracking capital…
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Bristol City Council Migrates Planning Portal to Open Source Stack
Bristol City Council has completed a migration of its public-facing planning portal to an open source technology stack…