Category: News
Open source business and built environment news, updated daily.
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OpenStreetMap Data Powers New Scottish Government Digital Planning Portal
The Scottish Government has launched a public-facing digital planning portal built on OpenStreetMap base layers combined with PostGIS…
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Odoo ERP Deployment Saves Midlands Housing Association £250,000 in Year One
Bromford Housing Group has completed the first year of its Odoo ERP deployment, reporting savings of £250,000 against…
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PostgreSQL Replaces Oracle at Highways England as Infrastructure Data Backbone
National Highways has confirmed the completion of a multi-year programme migrating its core asset and infrastructure data systems…
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QGIS 3.38 Released With Enhanced Collaboration Tools for Planning Authorities
The QGIS project has released version 3.38, introducing improved shared layer management and real-time annotation features aimed at…
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Homes England Adopts OpenProject for Major Infrastructure Programme Management
Homes England has migrated its programme delivery teams to OpenProject, the open source project management platform, replacing a…
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Southwark Council Deploys Nextcloud to Replace SharePoint Across Planning Teams
Southwark London Borough Council has completed a full rollout of Nextcloud Hub 7 across its planning and development…
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OpenTopoMap Integration Lands in FreeCAD BIM Workbench for Site Modelling
The FreeCAD development community has merged a new plugin into the BIM Workbench that pulls topographic data directly…
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UK Planning Inspectorate Trials Open Source ePlanning Stack Built on Camunda
The Planning Inspectorate has begun a six-month trial of a custom digital appeals workflow system built on Camunda’s…
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Odoo 17 ERP Adopted by Scottish Water for Asset and Procurement Management
Scottish Water has selected Odoo 17 Community Edition as the foundation for a new integrated asset management and…
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OpenProject Gains Traction Among UK Architecture Practices as Asana Alternative
A growing number of mid-sized UK architecture practices, including Perkins&Will’s London office and Bennetts Associates, are reported to…