Category: News
Open source business and built environment news, updated daily.
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Blender Gains Traction Among UK Architectural Practices as BIM Visualisation Tool
A growing number of small and mid-sized UK architectural practices are adopting Blender as a cost-free alternative to…
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PostgreSQL and PostGIS Power New National Street Works Data Infrastructure
Street Manager, the UK government’s platform for coordinating roadworks permits, has expanded its backend data infrastructure using PostgreSQL…
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GeoServer Deployment Underpins Surrey County Council’s New Open Data Portal
Surrey County Council has launched a refreshed open data portal built on GeoServer and GeoNode, making spatial datasets…
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QGIS 3.38 Rolls Out Improved 3D Scene Export for Urban Planning Teams
The QGIS project has released version 3.38, featuring enhanced 3D scene export capabilities that allow urban planners to…
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Doncaster Council Migrates Finance Systems to OpenERP-Based Odoo Platform
Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council has completed a phased migration of its core finance and procurement functions to Odoo,…
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QGIS 3.38 Adopted by Cornwall Council for Coastal Flood Risk Mapping
Cornwall Council has migrated its coastal flood risk assessment workflows to QGIS 3.38, replacing a legacy Esri ArcGIS…
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OpenProject Wins Contract to Replace MS Project Across NHS Estates Teams
NHS Property Services has selected OpenProject, the open source project management platform, to standardise capital works scheduling across…
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Ordnance Survey Contributes Street Network Data to OpenStreetMap Foundation
Ordnance Survey has announced a formal data-sharing agreement with the OpenStreetMap Foundation, releasing a curated subset of its…
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Sutton and Merton Councils Deploy Nextcloud to Meet Data Residency Requirements
The London Borough of Sutton and the London Borough of Merton have jointly deployed a self-hosted Nextcloud instance…
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IfcOpenShell Library Gains IFC4x3 Support for Rail Infrastructure Modelling
The open source IfcOpenShell project has released version 0.8.0 with full read-write support for the IFC4x3 schema, enabling…