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MetaCarta 
Type Private Founded Cambridge, MA, USA (1999) Headquarters Cambridge, MA, USA Key people John R. Frank, CTO Website www.metacarta.com MetaCarta is aprivate company providing geographic solutions since 2001. Their headquarters are in Cambridge, MA with additional offices located in Washington DC; Houston, TX; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; and New York, NY.[1]
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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 [2]. In 1999, he received $500,000 from DARPA after developing a search technology which enables finding references to locations in documents and thus documents can be retrieved 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]
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 the MetaCarta Labs lab website, which offers a number of projects which are not official projects of the company. Through Metacarta Labs, they have 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)
References
- ^ "MetaCarta: About". MetaCarta. http://www.metacarta.com/about-us-overview.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-14.
- ^ "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.
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