About Koordinates
Ed and Rob have been studying and working in the geology, GIS and online mapping industries for a combined 13 years.
During that time, they experienced first-hand the frustrations felt by all professional people for the time-consuming process of finding and using digital geographic data. They envisaged a simpler way of bringing geodata to professionals around the world.
Ed and Rob put their heads together and spent most of 2007 thinking, researching and experimenting with a number of concepts. Working with industry partners, they finally created Koordinates.com - 'the one place for geodata'. It was launched into Beta testing in November 2007.
Timeline
| 4 April 2008 | Koordinates Public Beta launched. |
| 29 January 2008 | One Track Mind Ltd renamed Koordinates Ltd. |
| 6 November 2007 | Koordinates Private Beta launched. |
| June 2007 | One Track Mind Ltd is restructured and Ed Corkery joins as CEO and co-majority shareholder. One Track Mind refocuses on creating 'the one place for geodata'. |
| February 2007 | Ed bumps into the One Track Mind team at SPARK. The possibility of a Koordinates-like website is discussed. |
| 2006 | One Track Mind Ltd formed by Rob Coup, Martin Soutschek, David Agmen-Smith, Steven Lyons and Michael Coup. Original focus is on tourism-sector Internet mapping technology in partnership with Alpstein GmbH of Germany. |
| 2005 | One Track Mind is a finalist in Auckland University's SPARK 50K Entrepreneurial Challenge with the TRACKinfo online mapping system. |
| 2002-04 | Martin Soutschek and Rob Coup conceive and prototype an online walking track information system using 'slippy maps'. |