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Steve Coast is the Founder of OpenStreetMap one of the most successful open source projects; started in 2004 and now used everywhere from Apple's Maps to Mapbox and even Pokemon Go recently. Steve has worked at places like Microsoft, TomTom, Telenav & Digital Globe.
We talk about the future of mapping and Tech in general as well as how Steve thinks maps will disappear.Buckle up this is a long one, but well worth it
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About Steve:
- LinkedIn: / experience
- Twitter: / stevec
Shownotes
- OSM timelapse over England from Geofabrik: www.geofabrik.de/gallery/hist...
- Peter Thiel: Zero to One: www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
- Mark Zuckerberg on The Joe Rogan Experience: open.spotify.com/episode/51gx...
- Naval: nav.al/
- Cellular Automaton: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellula...
- Rule 110: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_11... 238 as I eluded to)
- John Boyd: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bo...)
- The book of OSM: / the-book-of-osm
- Stephen Wolfram: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen...
- Neal Stephenson: The Diamond Age: / 827.the_diamond_age
- James Dyson: Invention: A Life: / invention
- The 48 Laws of Power: / 1303.the_48_laws_of_power
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach: / 71728.jonathan_livings...
- Podcast Recommendation: EconTalk: www.econtalk.org/
- Book Recommendation: Travels by Michael Crichton: / 7665.travels
Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
03:47 - Conversation begins, Steve Describes Himself
06:30 - Why Does Steve think he's Good at Predicting Trends
12:22 - Steve's Predictions for the Future of Maps
21:36 - Maps will Disappear
26:46 - Incentives for a Location Based Social Media
33:26 - Steve's Detachment to Maps
38:17 - Past Achievements as Mental Frameworks
50:37 - The Start of OpenStreepMap
59:33 - Why Did OpenStreetMap work (and not other projects)?
01:04:44 - Simplicity Over Anything Else
01:17:05 - How does one build Simple Products?
01:20:35 - The influence of Cellular Automaton on Steve
01:25:18 - Pushing One's Self to Think Outside the Box
01:32:53 - Steve's Understanding of Maps when he started OSM
01:36:38 - Everything is Illegal, Except Tech
01:52:40 - Steve's Current Interests
01:58:00 - Crypto, Why it's At Least Worth Paying Attention To
02:03:22 - Putting Maps on the Blockchain, and Why You'd Even Want to Do That
02:12:13 - The Next Thing that Will Kill OpenStreetMap
02:21:10 - All the Maps are the Same Today, But Don't Need to Be
02:31:28 - Believing (or Not) in Early Projects
02:33:38 - Advice for (not Only) Young People
02:44:53 - Steve on Podcasts
02:49:02 - Steve's Book Recommendations
Feel free to reach out!
- Website: mindsbehindmaps.com/
- My Twitter: / maxlenormand
- Podcast Twitter: / mindsbehindmaps
- Previous Newsletter: mindsbehindsmaps_newsletter.ck.page/posts/raising-the-bar-for-geospatial-content
- Sponsor the Podcast: mindsbehindmaps.com/support
Edited by Peter Xiong: / cellobuddy
Find more of his work: kzfaq.info?even...