Background
Coast grew up in Walderslade and London, England.
Coast grew up in Walderslade and London, England.
University College London.
Coast interned at Wolfram Research before studying computing science at University College London (University College London). In July 2004 he founded the OpenStreetMap project (OSM). Coast set up Z.X.V. Limited. 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 March 2014 Coast became an advisor to Auth0, an identity-as-a-service provider.
In January 2016 he stepped down from full-time work at TeleNav and started his work as a board advisor in Navmii.
In 2008 Coast moved to the United States, first to San Francisco and later to Colorado. In November 2010 Coast wrote that he would be moving to Seattle, Washington, United States of America. He moved back to Colorado in 2013.