Tag: news
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Ordnance Survey Contributes Road Network Improvements to OpenStreetMap Ahead of API Refresh
Ordnance Survey has announced a structured data contribution programme to OpenStreetMap, focusing initially on road classification corrections and…
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DLUHC Pilots Open Source Planning Data Platform Across Five Pathfinder Councils
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has launched a pilot of its open source planning data…
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QGIS Adopted by Homes England for National Land Availability Mapping
Homes England has completed a migration from Esri ArcGIS to QGIS 3.36 across its spatial planning teams, citing…
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Bristol City Council Deploys OpenProject for Capital Programme Management
Bristol City Council has gone live with OpenProject, the open source project management platform, to coordinate its £340…
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IfcOpenShell 0.8 Release Boosts IFC Geometry Processing for BIM Workflows
The IfcOpenShell project has released version 0.8, introducing substantially improved support for IFC4 geometry processing and a new…
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West Yorkshire Combined Authority Adopts OpenStreetMap Data for Transport Planning
West Yorkshire Combined Authority has confirmed it will use OpenStreetMap as a primary base layer for its new…
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Autodesk Rival OpenBIM Platform Speckle Secures Series A Funding Round
Speckle, the open source data platform for architecture, engineering and construction workflows, has closed a £9.2 million Series…
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DLUHC Pilots Open Source Digital Planning Software Across Twelve English Councils
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has launched a formal pilot of the open source Planning…
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PostgreSQL 17 Adoption Grows Among UK Council Finance Teams Replacing Oracle
A growing number of UK district councils are migrating back-office finance systems to stacks built on PostgreSQL 17…
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FreeCAD 1.0 Release Sparks Interest Among Small Architectural Practices
The landmark release of FreeCAD 1.0, featuring a stabilised topological naming engine and improved BIM workbench, has prompted…