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Microsoft has hired Steve Coast, the founder of OpenStreetMap, for its own Bing Maps project. Coast will be Principal Architect for Bing Mobile, tasked with improving the search engine’s map experience, and leading initiatives to engage with open source mapping projects such as OpenStreetMap. OpenStreetMap is essentially the online map version of Wikipedia, a navigation [...]

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Internet News Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 2,747 Thanks: 0 Thanked 11 Times in 9 Posts	OpenStreetMap founder off to work for Bing Maps Microsoft has hired Steve Coast, the founder of OpenStreetMap, for its own Bing Maps project. Coast will be Principal Architect for Bing Mobile, tasked with improving the search engine’s map experience, and leading initiatives to engage with open source mapping projects such as OpenStreetMap. OpenStreetMap is essentially the online map version of Wikipedia, a navigation [...] More: OpenStreetMap founder off to work for Bing Maps