MetaCarta
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| Type | Private |
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| 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]
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[edit] 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]
[edit] Acquisition
MetaCarta was acquired by Nokia on April 9, 2010.[4] Nokia divested MetaCarta to Qbase Holdings, LLC on July 13, 2010.[5]
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Projects funded by MetaCarta
- OpenLayers (now a project in Open Source Geospatial Foundation)
- TileCache
- FeatureServer
[edit] See also
- Erik Rauch - Company Co-Founder (May 15, 1974-July 13, 2005)
- Schuyler Erle
- András Kornai - Chief Scientist
- Hertz Foundation
- Red Herring (magazine)
[edit] References
- ^ "MetaCarta: About". MetaCarta. http://www.metacarta.com/about-us-contact-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. http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2004/06/28/daily10.html?jst=s_cn_hl. Retrieved 2008-05-16.
- ^ "Nokia acquires MetaCarta Inc.". MetaCarta. http://www.metacarta.com/7b302061-f85c-4cc5-ba3a-81e61ba10343/news-and-events-press-release-detail.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-14.
- ^ "Qbase Holdings, LLC Announces Acquisition of MetaCarta Inc". PRWeb. http://www.prweb.com/releases/Qbase/2010/prweb4250744.htm. Retrieved 2011-01-10.
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