Steve Coast Explained

Steve Coast
Birth Name:Stephen Coast[1]
Birth Date:20 December 1980
Known For:founder of OpenStreetMap
Website:User page in OSM

Stephen 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

Coast grew up in Walderslade and London, United Kingdom.

Career

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.

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]

In November 2015, Coast published "The Book of OSM". The book contains 15 interviews conducted by Coast with various users who had participated in the project since its beginning.[9]

In January 2016, he stepped down from full-time work at TeleNav[10] and became a board advisor for Navmii.[11] In March 2016 he started working as Chief Evangelist for What3words.[12] [13] In May 2016 he became an advisor for MapJam.[14] In October 2017, he joined DigitalGlobe.[15]

In the summer of 2021 he was appointed Vice President of Community at TomTom.[16]

In July 2022, it was announced that Coast had joined Grab as Head of Engineering, Geo Innovation.[17]

Personal life

In 2008, Coast moved to the United States, first to San Francisco. In 2009 he moved to Colorado with his wife Hurricane (born McEwen). In November 2010 Coast wrote that he would be moving to Seattle, Washington.[18] He moved back to Colorado in 2013.

External links

Notes and References

  1. OpenStreetMap Foundation filing to Companies House (UK) on 17 September 2008.
  2. Web site: Will the Real Steve Coast Please Stand Up?. https://web.archive.org/web/20080704135247/http://blog.fortiusone.com/2008/06/30/will-the-real-steve-coast-please-stand-up/. dead. 4 July 2008. Gorman. Sean. 30 June 2008. FortiusOne. 30 October 2009.
  3. News: A sidestep in the right direction. Mathieson. S. A.. 11 May 2006. The Guardian. 15 September 2009.
  4. News: About CloudMade. CloudMade. 2 September 2011. 2 September 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110902010234/http://cloudmade.com/about. dead.
  5. Web site: Steve Coast - profile. https://web.archive.org/web/20080802102515/http://cloudmade.com/team/steve-coast. 2 August 2008. CloudMade. 28 February 2010.
  6. Web site: I've resigned from CloudMade - SteveC . Blog.stevecoast.com . 5 October 2010 . 4 December 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101210162408/http://blog.stevecoast.com/ive-resigned-from-cloudmade . 10 December 2010 .
  7. Web site: I'm working at Microsoft and we're donating imagery to OpenStreetMap!. Steve Coast. 23 November 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20101125151952/http://blog.stevecoast.com/im-working-at-microsoft-and-were-donating-ima. 25 November 2010.
  8. Web site: Mapping My Next Adventure. Steve Coast. 3 September 2013.
  9. Web site: The Book of OSM.
  10. News: New Year, New Roles. Coast. Steve. 6 January 2016. 15 February 2016.
  11. News: Steve Coast joins Navmii as a Board Advisor. Team Navmii. 25 January 2016. 15 February 2016. 29 January 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160129023857/http://navmii.com/2016/01/25/steve-coast-joins-navmii-as-a-board-advisor/. dead.
  12. News: what3words scoops up founder of OpenStreetMap to capitalize on North American growth. 24 March 2016. 21 May 2016.
  13. Web site: Why I like what3words. Steve Coast. Coast. Steve. 25 March 2016. 21 May 2016.
  14. Web site: OpenStreetMap Founder Steve Coast Joins MapJam As Advisor . 24 May 2016 . 15 July 2016.
  15. Web site: A Digital Globe . Steve Coast . 28 July 2018 . 20 October 2017.
  16. Web site: Happy birthday, OpenStreetMap!. TomTom Newsroom . 2023-10-15 . 2021-08-09.
  17. Web site: Discovering new models of mapping with Steve Coast . 2022-07-27 . 2023-05-15.
  18. Web site: I'm working at Microsoft and we're donating imagery to OpenStreetMap! - SteveC . Blog.stevecoast.com . 23 November 2010 . 4 December 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101125151952/http://blog.stevecoast.com/im-working-at-microsoft-and-were-donating-ima . 25 November 2010 .

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