MetaCarta
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| Founded | Cambridge, MA, USA (1999) |
| Headquarters | Reston, VA, USA |
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Key people
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John R. Frank, former CTO |
| Website | www |
MetaCarta is a private company that provides geographic information extraction and search engine products. The company was founded in 2001, and was acquired by Nokia in 2010.[1] Nokia subsequently spun out the enterprise products division and the MetaCarta brand to Qbase.[2] Their headquarters are in Reston, Virginia, with additional offices located in Springfield, Ohio.[3]
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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.[4] 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 received funding from In-Q-Tel, a CIA-related organization,[5] as well as over $18 million in private venture capital.[6]
Acquisition
MetaCarta was acquired by Nokia on April 9, 2010.[7] Nokia kept MetaCarta's core engineering team to build the search engine behind its here.com location search offering, and spun-out the enterprise products division and MetaCarta brand to Qbase Holdings, LLC in July, 2010.[8]
Products and services
MetaCarta offers two main products. The first, Geographic Text Search (GTS), combines keyword and geographic searches.[9] The second, GeoSearch News, indexes news stories by location so that users can search by locations or use a map to see any news stories that have occurred in a given area.[10]
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
See also
- Erik Rauch – Company Co-Founder (May 15, 1974 – July 13, 2005)
- Schuyler Erle
- András Kornai – Chief Scientist
- Hertz Foundation
- Red Herring (magazine)
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