Steve Coast
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Steve Coast in 2009
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| Born | Stephen Coast[1] 20 December 1980 |
| Known for | founder of OpenStreetMap |
Steve Coast (born 20 December 1980) is a British entrepreneur and the founder of the OpenStreetMap community-based world mapping project and CloudMade, a geography-related company.
Early life[edit]
Coast grew up in Walderslade and London, England.
Career[edit]
Coast interned at Wolfram Research before studying computing science at University College London (UCL).[2]
In July 2004 he founded the OpenStreetMap project (OSM).[3]
Coast set up Z.X.V. Ltd. with Nick Black, Tom Carden and Ben Gimpert as a technology consultancy in 2005. In 2008 this became CloudMade after investment by Nikolaj Nyholm and Sunstone Capital (company's website claims it was established in 2007[4]).[5] He resigned from CloudMade in October 2010,[6] although he remained a shareholder.[citation needed]
On 23 November 2010 Coast announced that he had accepted a position as Principal Architect at Microsoft's Bing Mobile.[7]
On 3 September 2013 Coast wrote on his blog that he had started to work for TeleNav, taking care of OSM development for the company's Scout navigator.[8]
Personal life[edit]
In 2008 Coast moved to the US, first to San Francisco and later to Colorado. In November 2010 Coast wrote that he would be moving to Seattle, Washington, USA.[9] He moved back to Colorado in 2013.
References[edit]
- ^ OpenStreetMap Foundation filing to Companies House (UK) on 17 September 2008.
- ^ Gorman, Sean (30 June 2008). "Will the Real Steve Coast Please Stand Up?". FortiusOne. Retrieved 30 October 2009.
- ^ Mathieson, S. A. (11 May 2006). "A sidestep in the right direction". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 September 2009.
- ^ "About CloudMade". CloudMade. Retrieved 2 September 2011.
- ^ "Steve Coast - profile". CloudMade. Archived from the original on 2 August 2008. Retrieved 28 February 2010.
- ^ "I've resigned from CloudMade - SteveC". Blog.stevecoast.com. 5 October 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
- ^ "I’m working at Microsoft and we’re donating imagery to OpenStreetMap!". Steve Coast. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
- ^ "Mapping My Next Adventure". Steve Coast. Retrieved 3 September 2013.
- ^ "I’m working at Microsoft and we’re donating imagery to OpenStreetMap! - SteveC". Blog.stevecoast.com. 23 November 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
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