PC World reports that Steve Coast, who founded the popular OpenStreetMap project, will be working on Microsoft Bing Maps.

As part of an initiative to leverage the OpenStreetMap project for its own Bing Maps, Microsoft has hired OSM founder Steve Coast, the company announced Tuesday.

"As a Principal Architect for Bing Mobile, Steve will help develop better mapping experiences for our customers and partners, and lead efforts to engage with OpenStreetMap and other open source and open data projects," stated a Microsoft blog announcement posted Tuesday.

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