Steve Coast
British entrepreneur who founded OpenStreetMap in 2004.
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- Steve Coast is a British entrepreneur who founded OpenStreetMap, the volunteer-built map of the world, in July 2004, and co-founded the mapping company CloudMade.
- He later worked on maps at Microsoft's Bing Mobile, Telenav, What3words, DigitalGlobe, TomTom and, from July 2022, Grab.
- He wrote The Book of OSM (2015).
Key facts
- Born
- 20 December 19801
- OpenStreetMap
- Founded it, July 20041
- CloudMade
- Co-founded it (as Z.X.V. Ltd in 2005); resigned in October 20101
- Later
- Microsoft Bing Mobile, principal architect (from November 2010); Telenav (from September 2013); What3words, chief evangelist (2016); DigitalGlobe (2017); TomTom, VP of community (2021); Grab, head of engineering for geo innovation (from July 2022)1
- Book
- The Book of OSM (2015)1
- Education
- Computing science, University College London1
Roles
Founded
Before
Part of until Sep 2013
Microsoft (principal architect, Bing Mobile; joined Telenav in September 2013) source on Microsoft
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