The National Transportation Safety Board today affirmed the FAA’s position that the regulation prohibiting operation of an aircraft in a careless or reckless manner applies to unmanned aircraft. More info here.
The North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) has released their 2014 Atlas of Design. The Atlas of Design is dedicated to showing off some of the world’s most beautiful and intriguing cartographic designs. Check it out and order your copy today!
The U.S. dollar this year turns 100 years old (the one that exists today, as printed by the U.S. treasury). Click below for a brief summary on the history of the dollar and how and why it became the reserve currency.
Join MaptimeLA on a field trip from downtown to Century City to visit with Tyler Bell, VP of Product at Factual!
Thursday, November 13 @ 7pm
1999 Avenue of the Stars, 35th floor
RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/MaptimeLA/events/204389362/
Claremont Graduate University and IBM are hosting a Big Data Conference. The conference is free and open to the public. For more info and to register, click below.
Like last year, ESRI will be taking votes for the 2015 UC look. You have until November 18th to cast your vote.
Jeff Speck, a city planner based in Washington, D.C., thinks there’s fix that could make the roads safer that doesn’t involve new technologies like self-driving cars or systems that beep when your car gets to close to another car. According to Speck, just making road lanes narrower could reduce vehicular deaths. Click below to read the article.
Just in time for Halloween, Esri’s “Where Are the Bodies?” story map documents the final resting places of some of the most famous (and infamous) actors, artists, authors, and criminals. Check it out!
If you use ESRI’s Collector for ArcGIS in your organization, it looks like they have updated the software to 10.2.7 for both iOS and Android platforms.
For the iOS platform, Collector now fully supports the new resolutions introduced with iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. In addition, a number of key software defects were addressed.
For more info, visit the announcement here.
If you use Oracle to store your Enterprise Geodatabase, you should hold off with installing Oracle’s Critical Patch Update released on October 14th, 2014. The patch update will prevent ArcGIS Desktop from connecting to it and your connections will hang or crash. ESRI recommends NOT TO INSTALL THE UPDATE. More on this issue here:
http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/techarticles/detail/43293
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