MetaCarta

MetaCarta

Type	Private
Founded	Cambridge, MA, USA (1999)
Headquarters	Reston, VA, USA
Key people	John R. Frank, former CTO
Website	www.metacarta.com

MetaCarta is a private company providing geographic solutions since 2001. Their headquarters are in Reston, VA with additional offices located in Springfield, OH.^[1]

1 History
- 1.1 Acquisition
2 Awards
3 Products and services
- 3.1 MetaCarta Labs
  - 3.1.1 Projects funded by MetaCarta
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

History

MetaCarta was founded by John R. Frank while he was working on his Ph.D. in physics as a Hertz Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[2] In 1999, he received $500,000 from DARPA after developing a search technology which enables finding references to locations in documents and thus allowed documents to be retrieved from a search index when a geographical keyword is entered. MetaCarta also receives funding from In-Q-Tel, a CIA-related organization.^[3]

Acquisition

MetaCarta was acquired by Nokia on April 9, 2010.^[4] Nokia divested MetaCarta to Qbase Holdings, LLC on July 13, 2010.^[5]

Awards

Red Herring magazine named MetaCarta as one of the top 100 innovators in 2004.

KMWorld Magazine mentioned the company on its "KMWorld 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management" list in 2006.

Products and services

Geographic Text Search (GTS) - Combines keyword search with geographic search so that users can find content related to a place and view the results on a map.

GeoSearch News (http://geosearch.metacarta.com/) - Geosearch engine that shows current news on a map. It indexes more than 1,400 national/international/local news sources and provides direct feeds from Associated Press and Reuters.

MetaCarta Labs

In addition to its commercial products, MetaCarta maintains MetaCarta Labs, a lab website, which offers a number of unofficial projects. Through Metacarta Labs, the company has funded development of several open source geographic software packages.

Projects funded by MetaCarta

OpenLayers (now a project in Open Source Geospatial Foundation)
TileCache
FeatureServer

References

^ "MetaCarta: About". MetaCarta. http://www.metacarta.com/about-us-con tact-us.htm. Retrieved 2011-01-10.
^ "Where 2.0 Conference Speaker - John R. Frank". O'Reilly. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/ where2006/view/e_spkr/2208. Retrieved 2008-05-16.
^ "MetaCarta lands second funding from CIA". Boston Business Journal. 2004-06-29. Retrieved 2008-05-16.
^ "Nokia acquires MetaCarta Inc.". MetaCarta. http://www.metacarta.com/7b302061-f85 c-4cc5-ba3a-81e61ba10343/news-and-eve nts-press-release-detail.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-14.
^ "Qbase Holdings, LLC Announces Acquisition of MetaCarta Inc". PRWeb. http://www.prweb.com/releases/Qbase/2 010/prweb4250744.htm. Retrieved 2011-01-10.

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