Uber & TomTom To Collaborate on Map Editing

TomTom is collecting data from Uber to update its navigation maps. By being one of its trusted map editing partners, Uber is developing its ongoing partnership with TomTom, helping to establish more detailed navigation and location experiences, routing, fares, and estimates of arrival times. This will benefit customers, drivers, and delivery people on Uber’s platform.

Steve Ballmer's USA Facts "Change The Story"

How Can I Find Social Media Influencers?

Social media is playing a significant role in attracting visitors to your business. But how would it be achieved? You have probably noticed a lot of users on several pages and groups. They are getting engaged and responding to each post. The owner of that page is a true influencer on social forums. Hence, a social media influencer will be quite effective in bringing the targeted audiences over to your social platform.

Now the problem is how you would find the right social media influencer for your business. There are numerous influencing marketing tools available free of cost. You can easily find them. Most of them are accessible through mobile phone apps as well.

5 Best Tools To Find Social Media Influencers

Map of Homeless Encampments & Shelters

Map of Homeless Encampments & Shelters

We have been doing a lot of research for quality map data on homeless populations in certain areas and shelters.  The data we have found is very spotty and so we thought it would be appropriate to setup a map where this information could be crowdsourced.  

We started HomelessMaps.Blogspot.com as an attempt to provide better information about homeless populations and the locations of shelters in areas.  In the maps above you can dynamically search based on census data of homeless populations.  The 2nd map is a map of homeless shelters.  

If you have any information to add to this please email me at jeff@syndicatedmaps.com. 

Crowdsourced Map of Homeless in California

We are interested in building a map of the homeless crisis in California.  Particularly in Los Angeles, Venice and San Francisco.  We want to plot these camps on a map so people can better understand where and why they are happening.  We have successfully launched 10+ other public safety maps that solve similar data problems.

Mapping Public Safety Helps People See What Others Can't

ESRI Video See What Others Can't

This video kind of explains what we do and why we do it.  However, its our belief that sharing this data with the public is more important than controlling the information and only letting a few decision makers allow who sees this information.  

Google Shutting Down Fusion Tables is a Huge Mistake

Reasons Why Google Shutting Fusion Tables is a Huge Mistake

Looking to Acquire Public Safety Data

We are looking to acquire / partner with niche public safety map data sites or databases that we can use on our mobile advertising network. We are open to all ideas of public safety, crime and geospatial data.   Here are some data sets below we have built organically over the last 20 years. See SyndicatedMaps.com

Please email me your ideas. The smaller and more focused the better.

10 Ways President Obama Created Jobs

During his presidency, President Barack Obama implemented several initiatives and policies aimed at job creation and economic growth. Here are ten ways in which President Obama worked to create jobs:

How I Made The Mistake of Sending Bitcoin to an Ethereum Wallet Metamask

You Cannot Send Bitcoin to Metamask Ethereum Wallet 

LESSON LEARNED:  Did you know a crypto wallet is not a wallet that can catch all currency including Bitcoin?   I didn't know this as I was trying to send Bitcoin money from Earn.com to Metamask.  BTW Earn.com was purchased by Coinbase for $100M recently.