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Nick Black
Founder and Head of Products at CloudMade
Information Technology and Services | London, United Kingdom, GB
Nick is passionate about creating tools and services that enable developers to create remarkable location based experiences across all device types - from mobile to web and beyond. His passion comes from a background as a developer creating unique location based applications on web and mobile. A desire to enable the creation of unrivalled location experiences led him to co-found CloudMade in 2007.

As Head of Products at CloudMade, Nick is responsible for leading the company’s product vision and strategy. He is focused on empowering the 17,000-strong developer community as well as large companies using CloudMade, with the tools and services needed to create the best location products possible for their customers. CloudMade's products include great development tools, the richest map data and give developers the ability to earn revenues through location based advertising in their applications.

Having built a location platform being used by over 17,000 developers, primarily in the Navigation and Travel categories on iOS platforms, CloudMade are now focusing on expanding their tools and services to cover more app categories on more mobile platforms. If you are an iOS or Android developer interested in adding location to Games, Social, Utilities or other categories, get in touch with Nick.

An early pioneer and driving force behind OpenStreetMap, Nick has played a key role in the crowd sourcing movement. Often referred to as the Wikipedia of maps, OpenStreetMap (OSM) now has international acclaim with over a quarter of million users worldwide. Nick's involvement in the organisation since 2006 has given him a unique insight into the world of community created content.

You can follow Nick on Twitter: http://twitter.com/nick_b
  • Apr 2007 - Present
    Founder & Head of Products / CloudMade
    * Product Strategy - market analysis, competitive analysis, product planning and roadmapping within areas of navigation, app development, social media, social networking and location based services
    * Product Management - defining processes, managing teams of product managers
    * User Experience - leading product design teams creating user experiences for mobile, desktop, tablets and personal navigation devices
    * Developers - engaging with app developers, understanding their needs, developing new products to match
  • Mar 2006 - Present
    Member & Volunteer / OpenStreetMap Foundation
    I've been involved with many aspects of the OpenStreetMap Foundation. In the beginning I worked on server and map editor code, contributing to major API upgrades. Recently I have been part of the organising committee for the first State of the Map conference in 2007 and Chaired the committee in 2008 and 2009. I have also represented the Foundation at conferences and other events in UK, Europe and North America.

    I continue to be actively involved in the State of the Map, Local Chapters organisation and the OpenStreetMap community in London.
  • Aug 2008 - 2009
    Board Member / OpenStreetMap Foundation
  • Sept 2006 - Mar 2007
    Cartography Manager / Get Mapping
  • Sept 2005 - Sept 2006
    Masters Student / Department Of Geomatic Engineering
  • 2005 - 2006
    University College London, U. of London
Websites:
Company Website, Blog
Interests:
Collaborative and commons based production, positioning and navigation technologies, open source software, internet startups

CloudMade

23,000 developers and counting
CloudMade's tools and services let developers create remarkable location aware experiences across a multitude of different device types and platforms.

Over the last 3 years we've signed up over 23,000 web, iPhone, Android and embedded device developers who are creating location aware experiences used by millions of people each month.  

Our most recent products let mobile games developers blend the real world into the in-game experience.  Find out more about Local Discovery.

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Flying Lotus
Old Man Markley
No Use For A Name
Depeche Mode
Air
The Streets
John Acquaviva
LXR
Crackdown
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