A fundamental aspect of MapMerge is that the drones and droids will  be tracked. Without a doubt regulatory authorities and drone manufacturers will need to be involved. While manufacturers could be forced to comply via legislation, the ideal is for their involvement to be voluntary.

Voluntary is already occurring when it comes to restricting drones from flying over sensitive locations, for example the No Fly Zones of DJI.

There are a number of services that aim to make it easier to operate drones commercially – like AirMap – although it seems they are only trying to abide by current regulations, rather than being a progressive, aggressive solution.

The answer is a controlling system that provides so many benefits (navigation, security, integrity, authenticity) that manufacturers will be clamouring to be part of it.