The FAA’s long-awaited rules for drones are finally ready, and they spell bad news for the many businesses and organizations that had hoped the agency would give up its hard-line approach to unmanned aircraft. Read more here.
The State of California is offering GIS services for organizations that need access to GIS resources. See the LA County eGIS posting here.
CGIA is looking for someone to create their next web application that will make accessible a list of GIS contacts throughout the State of California. The competition is open to anyone. First prize will be $1,500. Click here for more info.
As you read this post, there are many digital attacks going on over the internet. The most common is called the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. A DDoS attack is an attempt to make an online service unavailable by overwhelming it with traffic from multiple sources. They target a wide variety of important resources, from banks to news websites, and present a major challenge to making sure people can publish and access important information. Watch this video to learn more. Click below to view real time and historical DDoS attacks worldwide.
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 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.
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