1999; 25 years ago (1999) in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Founders
John R. Frank (CEO & CTO)
Doug Brenhouse (COO & CFO)
Erik Rauch
Fate
Acquired in 2010 by Nokia who licensed the product and brand to Finch
Headquarters
Reston, Virginia
,
USA
Key people
Ron Matros (second CEO)
Don Zereski (third CEO)
George C. McNamee
András Kornai (Chief Scientist)
Products
geographic information retrieval
OpenLayers
Website
www.metacarta.com
MetaCarta is a software company that developed one of the first search engines to use a map to find unstructured documents.[1][2][3][4] The product uses natural language processing to georeference text[5] for customers in defense,[6][7] intelligence,[8][9] homeland security,[10][11] law enforcement,[12] oil and gas companies,[13][14][15] and publishing.[16][17] The company was founded in 1999 and was acquired by Nokia in 2010.[18][19] Nokia subsequently spun out the enterprise products division and the MetaCarta brand to Qbase, now renamed to Finch.[20][21]
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^"The revenge of geography". The Economist. 2003-03-13. Archived from the original on 2020-12-31.
^US granted 7117199, Frank, John R.; Rauch, Erik M. & Donoghue, Karen, "Spatially coding and displaying information", issued 2006-10-03
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^"MetaCarta: Putting Natural Language on the Map". GIS Monitor. 2003-08-21. Archived from the original on 2003-10-03.
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^Hardy, Michael (2004-03-07). "MetaCarta maps a new path". Federal Computer Week.
^"MetaCarta secures funding from In-Q-Tel - Investment Highlights MetaCarta's Value to Government Market". In-Q-Tel. 2002-10-16.
^Francica, Joe (2004-03-11). "MetaCarta, Inc. - Geographical Text Searching". Directions Magazine. Archived from the original on 2004-08-11.
^Sarkar, Dibya (2005-03-15). "DHS to use MetaCarta". Federal Computer Week. Archived from the original on 2005-04-15.
^Hermida, Alfred (2004-01-30). "Spooks turn to hi-tech geography". BBC News Online.
^"British Transport Police Selects MetaCarta to provide Location-based Situational Awareness for 2012". GISuser.com. 2009-01-20.
^"Schlumberger gets MetaCarta exclusive - Schlumberger has acquired exclusive distribution rights to the oil and gas sector for the MetaCarta map-based geographic information search technology". Offshore Magazine. 2007-12-18.
^"Schlumberger Acquires Exclusive Distribution Rights to MetaCarta for Oil & Gas Sector". GPS World. 2007-12-17.
^"Schlumberger Acquires Exclusive Distribution Rights to MetaCarta for Oil & Gas Sector - Agreement Provides Geographically Relevant Search Capabilities". Hart Energy. 2007-12-19.
^Smith, Susan (2008-04-07). "MetaCarta Moves into Digital Publishing with GeoSearch News". GISWeekly.
^"MetaCarta to Geo-Enable BBC". Geospatial World. 2008-12-11.
^"Nokia acquires geographic information company MetaCarta". New York Times. 2010-04-09.
^"Nokia Acquires MetaCarta". MetaCarta. Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
^"Nokia Divests MetaCarta Inc While Retaining Geographic Intelligence Technology for Local Search Services" (Press release). Nokia Corporation. 2010-07-12.
^"Qbase Holdings, LLC announces acquisition of MetaCarta Inc". MetaCarta. Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
MetaCarta is a software company that developed one of the first search engines to use a map to find unstructured documents. The product uses natural language...
0 conference of June 13–14, 2006, by MetaCarta Labs. Two other open-source mapping tools released by MetaCarta are FeatureServer and TileCache. Since...
purchased "Novarra", a mobile web browser firm. In April 2010, Nokia acquired MetaCarta, a local search technology firm. In 2012, Nokia purchased "Smarterphone"...
pioneer Plum, and social travel service Dopplr. In 2010, it acquired MetaCarta, a leading enterprise local search service used by security and military...
geographic data layers of all kinds, originally developed and sponsored by MetaCarta. Leafletjs – Open source JavaScript Library for Mobile-Friendly Interactive...
collecting place names led Rauch to found MetaCarta with John Frank and Doug Brenhouse. Using MetaCarta's software, Rauch developed maps like the four...
Nokia Corporation. 26 March 2010. Retrieved 9 April 2010. "Nokia acquires MetaCarta Inc" (Press release). Nokia Corporation. 9 April 2010. Retrieved 9 April...
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