astronomy

Steve Coast

Steve Coast is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Steve Coast rather than just read about it. In short: 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, Kent and London, United Kingdom.

Key takeaways

Steve Coast belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Steve Coast to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Steve Coast from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

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, Kent and London, United Kingdom.

Career

Coast was an intern at Wolfram Research before studying computing science at University College London (UCL). In July 2004, he founded the OpenStreetMap project (OSM). 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). He resigned from CloudMade in October 2010, 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. 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. 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. In January 2016, he stepped down from full-time work at TeleNav and became a board advisor for Navmii. In March 2016 he started working as Chief Evangelist for What3words. In May 2016 he became an advisor for MapJam. In October 2017, he joined DigitalGlobe. In the summer of 2021 he was appointed Vice President of Community at TomTom. In July 2022, it was announced that Coast had joined Grab as Head of Engineering, Geo Innovation.

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. He moved back to Colorado in 2013.

References

External links

Official website User page at OpenStreetMap Wiki

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Steve Coast

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Steve Coast claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Steve Coast before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Steve Coast ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Steve Coast

In research: Steve Coast appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Steve Coast in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Steve Coast is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1980 births, Alumni of University College London, British technology company founders, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Steve Coast outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Steve Coast in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Steve Coast means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Steve Coast out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Steve Coast in simple terms?

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, Kent and London, United Kingdom.

Why does Steve Coast matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Steve Coast?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Steve Coast.