Talk:Steve Coast

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Justification

Steve Coast is the sole founder of the OpenStreetMap project. (Similar in nature to Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia). He has giving 1000s of OpenStreetMap presentations.

OpenStreetMap has a current community of 160 842 members and growing rapidly^[1].

OpenStreetMap also has support from the greater wikipedia community.^[2]^[3]

Note: The 2 previous delete attempts on the Steve Coast page have been completely unrelated.

-- Firefishy (talk) 22:47, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

References

Directions Magazine - Readers Choose Most Influential Geospatial Person(s)

Steve Coast was chosen as the 2nd most influential (2009). Article --Firefishy (talk) 10:03, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Some more info

"Steve Coast, a ... physics dropout" 1 -- Nic Roets (talk) 18:50, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Selective quote? I don't know, maybe you're right... regardless, full quotation from that very decent Wall Street Journal article:

OpenStreetMap founder Steve Coast, a computer developer and physics dropout, founded his nonprofit project in 2004 after recognizing that unlike open-source software and community encyclopedias, there was no free mapping data available to computer programmers. "Mapping is one of the few things that gets you, as a hacker, out into the streets doing physical things," says Mr. Coast, who recently joined Microsoft as a map architect.

I wonder what he's been doing since 2019 when the article was last updated. FeralOink (talk) 03:11, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttp://www.openstreetmap.org/stats/data_stats.html

[2] ttp://cassini.toolserver.org/

[3] ttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OSM

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