Tag: news
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Gloucestershire County Council Migrates Highways Asset Management to OpenStreetMap-Based Platform
Gloucestershire County Council has completed a phased migration of its highways asset management system to an open source…
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QGIS 3.38 Release Brings Enhanced CRS Support for UK Ordnance Survey Grids
The OSGeo project has released QGIS 3.38, introducing improved coordinate reference system handling with native support for Ordnance…
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Homes England Pilots OpenStreetMap Data for Strategic Land Availability Assessments
Homes England has announced a pilot programme using OpenStreetMap data, processed through PostGIS and pgRouting, to support Strategic…
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LibreOffice Migration Saves Norfolk County Council £1.2 Million Over Three Years
Norfolk County Council has published a detailed case study following its full migration from Microsoft 365 desktop applications…
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Autodesk Rivals Gain Ground as BlenderBIM Adoption Rises in UK Architecture Practices
BlenderBIM, the open source IFC-native BIM authoring tool built on Blender, is seeing accelerating adoption among small and…
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OpenProject Replaces Jira at Bristol City Council After Licensing Cost Review
Bristol City Council has completed a rollout of OpenProject as its primary project management platform, replacing Atlassian Jira…
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PostGIS and Apache Superset Power New Network Rail Open Data Infrastructure Dashboard
Network Rail has deployed an internal infrastructure monitoring dashboard built on PostGIS, Apache Superset, and TimescaleDB to visualise…
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PostgreSQL 17 Adoption Accelerates Across UK Infrastructure Asset Databases
Highways England contractor Amey has standardised its road asset management database on PostgreSQL 17 with the PostGIS extension,…
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MHCLG Pilots Open Source Planning Data Validator Across Twenty Councils
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has expanded its pilot of the open source planning data…
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Autodesk Rival OpenBIM Platform BlenderBIM Gains Traction in UK Practices
BlenderBIM, the open source IFC-native BIM authoring tool built on top of Blender, is seeing growing adoption among…