Navmii appoints Steve Coast, OSM founder, as board advisor

Navmii has announced that Steve Coast, the founder of the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSM), joined Navmii as a board advisor to further enhance its B2B mapping products and services. Navmii has created enhanced, automotive grade OSM maps using its map enhancement platform and billions of points of mapping data collected from its users. Navmii has had OSM maps at the core of its app since its inception and has grown a global community of millions of users. Steve Coast started the OpenStreetMap project, which quickly grew into a huge crowd sourced community project of volunteers helping to build an open source map of the world. During the past ten years the entire planet has been mapped and is now used by companies, governments and humanitarian organisations. Steve Coast comments: “ I am confident that my experience will help Navmii to become a best in class, highly competitive map data provider. www.navmii.com