Join the Illinois GIS Association (ILGISA) as we as we welcome Key Note Speaker, Steve Coast, founder of OpenStreetMap (OSM), presenting on Wednesday, October 19, 2011. Steve Coast founded OpenStreetMap (OSM), a collaborative project to create an editable map of the world. Hundreds of thousands of registered users contribute data to OSM. OSM data is freely available for download for everyone – from the lone developer to private commercial enterprises. Steve later founded Cloudmade, which enables developers to create location-based applications on all major web and mobile platforms. Steve blogs about technology and adventure and currently works as Principal Architect at Microsoft’s Bing Mobile.