Steve Coast
| Steve Coast | |
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.jpg) Steve Coast in 2009 | |
| 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.
Career
Coast interned at Wolfram Research before studying computing science at University College London (UCL).[2]
In July 2004 he has founded the OpenStreetMap project (OSM).[3]
Steve 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] Steve resigned from CloudMade in October 2010,[6] although he is still a shareholder.
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 started to work in Telenav, taking care of OSM development for company's Scout navigator.[8]
Personal life
Coast grew up in Walderslade and London, England. In 2008 he moved to San Francisco and in late 2009 moved to Colorado. Steve and his wife Hurricane Coast (née: McEwen) live in Denver. On 23 November 2010 Coast wrote that he would be moving to Seattle, Washington.[9] Steve Coast moved back to Colorado in 2013.
References
- ↑ 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.
External links
- Steve Coast's website and Blog
- Steve Coast on Twitter
- Keynote speech at 2007 The State of the Map conference
- "Londonist Interviews...OpenStreetMap Guru Steve Coast". Londonist. April 2007. Retrieved 28 February 2010.
- Meet Steve Coast, Head of OSM at Telenav and Founder of OSM on YouTube (video interview)