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first published week of: 10/24/2016
A Free Marketplace Connecting Businesses with Experienced Drone Mapping Pilots
On August 29th, the FAA released its long-awaited Part 107 regulation governing commercial drone operations. A mere 3 weeks later, over 12,000 remote pilots had already passed the certification test, giving shape to the commercial drone boom that analysts and venture capitalists had be talking about for years.
Despite this growth, the nascent market is still very inefficient. Over 20 drone service marketplaces have been created aimed at connecting drone pilots to clients, but each marketplace acts as a middleman charging transactional or subscription fees without providing a steady flow of work to pilots. How do we know this? Because drone service providers frequently ask us where they can find more mapping work, and businesses frequently ask us for drone pilot references.Today we are excited to launch the Drone Mapping Directory, an entirely free service to connect businesses with drones service providers. Where other drone service marketplaces have focused primarily on photo and video services, this new directory focuses exclusively on drone mapping and enables pilots to showcase examples of their previous mapping projects. continued…