Category: News
Open source business and built environment news, updated daily.
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FreeCAD 1.0 Release Sparks Interest Among UK Architectural SMEs
The long-awaited stable release of FreeCAD 1.0 has prompted a wave of evaluation trials among small and medium-sized…
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West Midlands Combined Authority Pilots Overture Maps for Urban Analytics
West Midlands Combined Authority is piloting the Linux Foundation’s Overture Maps Foundation dataset as a base layer for…
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Arup Adopts Speckle Open Source BIM Platform for Cross-Discipline Data Exchange
Global engineering consultancy Arup has announced a strategic adoption of Speckle, the open source BIM data platform, across…
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Norfolk County Council Goes Live With ERPNext Replacing Oracle Financials
Norfolk County Council has completed a two-year transition from Oracle Financials to ERPNext, an open source enterprise resource…
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Hackney Council Migrates Planning Portal to Open Source QGIS Stack
Hackney Council has completed a phased migration of its planning application mapping tools to a fully open source…
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OpenStreetMap Reaches 10 Million UK Edits Milestone Amid Transport Surge
The OpenStreetMap Foundation has confirmed that contributions from UK-based mappers have crossed 10 million cumulative edits, driven largely…
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OpenTopoMap and Overpass API Power New Scottish Planning Portal Prototype
NatureScot and the Scottish Government’s Planning and Architecture Division have unveiled a prototype digital planning portal built on…
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PostGIS Adoption Grows Among UK Architecture Firms Handling Large Site Analysis
A survey by the Architectural Computing Forum has found that PostGIS usage among UK architecture practices with more…
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Linux Foundation Launches Open Infrastructure Blueprint for Smart City Deployments
The Linux Foundation has published a new open reference architecture aimed at municipalities deploying smart city infrastructure, incorporating…
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Homes England Explores OpenStreetMap Data to Accelerate Housing Delivery Mapping
Homes England has begun a feasibility study into replacing proprietary mapping licences with OpenStreetMap and GeoServer-based infrastructure for…