CloudMade

CloudMade

Type	Private
Industry	maps
Founded	2007
Headquarters	London (United Kingdom), Kiev (Ukraine), Stuttgart (Germany) and Menlo Park, CA, USA
Key people	Steve Coast
Employees	40
Website	http://cloudmade.com/

CloudMade is a company which produces APIs, rendered maps, and geographic-related services. Unlike many other companies in the same field, CloudMade uses exclusively Creative Commons-licensed OpenStreetMap data, and was cofounded by the founder of OpenStreetMap, Steve Coast. Many of its products compete with Google Maps by providing APIs for web sites, applications, and devices to use the rendered map data.

CloudMade's Style Editor allows users to edit the color scheme and layers visible in web-accessible maps - allowing customization that Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, and other large-scale competitors have not provided.

CloudMade is distributed between London (United Kingdom), Kiev (Ukraine), Stuttgart (Germany) and Menlo Park, CA (USA).

CloudMade's map renderings, combined with the OpenLayers javascript interface, have recently been used on the White House's Delivering on Change map.

CloudMade recorded a loss for 2008 of £1,426,585,^[1] with a loss for 2009 of a further £2,149,259.^[2]On October 5, 2010, OpenStreetMap founder and CloudMade cofounder Steve Coast resigned from all positions within the company. ^[3] In November, Steve announced that he had accepted a position as Principal Architect at Microsoft's Bing Mobile.^[4]

Notable milestones

• February 2009 — CloudMade launched its platform to mobile and web developers and signed up over 2,000 developers since.^[5]
• The British newspaper, The Guardian recently launched a new site built using CloudMade mapping and geo services.^[5]
• May 2009 — Useful Networks announced their mapNinja app for the iPhone supports out-of-box connectivity to four different mapping providers including CloudMade.^[6]

References

1. ^ Companies House Annual Accounts dated 1st Oct 2009
2. ^ Companies House Annual Accounts dated 15 Sept 2010
3. ^ Coast, Steve. "I've resigned from CloudMade". http://blog.stevecoast.com/ive-resigned-from-cloudmade. Retrieved 18 October 2010. 
4. ^ "I’m working at Microsoft and we’re donating imagery to OpenStreetMap!". Steve Coast. http://blog.stevecoast.com/im-working-at-microsoft-and-were-donating-ima. Retrieved 23 November 2010. 
5. ^ ^{a b} Business Wire (2009-03-31). "Geo Industry Veteran Marc Prioleau Joins CloudMade as CEO". Forbes.com. http://www.forbes.com/feeds/businesswire/2009/03/31/businesswire122669564.html. Retrieved 2009-05-09. ^{[dead link]}
6. ^ Sellers, Dennis (2009-03-09). "Useful Networks announces mapNinja for the iPhone". Macsimum News. http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/useful_networks_announces_mapninja_for_the_iphone. Retrieved 2009-05-09. 

External links

• CloudMade