Corporate technology accelerator, UP Ventures Group, has entered into partnership with the government’s Connected Places Catapult to create a programme for nurturing smart city solutions at MediaCityUK in Salford.

The Geospatial Commission has partnered with Innovate UK to create a £2m international competition which will look at how location data can spark innovation and support the future of mobility for the United Kingdom.

Landmark Information has welcomed the launch of Ordnance Survey’s latest geospatial data platform, designed to improve access to location-based data via OS MasterMap, with a series of updates to its Promap mapping and data service.

Maps from the French air quality information company allow users to track air pollution in real-time for every street in your city, with more than 100 major urban centres across the US and Europe now live.

Now that lockdown measures are beginning to ease and the prospect of meeting up with friends and family in a restaurant or having a drink in a pub is closer, businesses are planning for what a return to the workplace will look like.

Prof Greg Clark, an authority on urban innovation, takes over the UK government-funded agency determined to drive adoption of new methods of travel and models for the way places are designed and run.

Sidewalk Labs has aborted plans to create a smart city on the Toronto waterfront due to “unprecedented economic uncertainty” which has made the 12-acre project “too difficult to make… financially viable”, according to CEO of the Alphabet subsidiary Dan Doctoroff.

The capital of Finland has opened the energy consumption data of its public buildings to application developers to help it become a carbon-neutral city.

A new app platform, part of Google’s Digital Accelerator programme, gives you an easy way to collect, remember and share all the places you love.