MetaCarta
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| Type | Private |
| Founded |  Cambridge, MA, USA (1999) |
| Headquarters | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| Key people | Ron Matros, CEO John R. Frank, CTO |
| Website | www.metacarta.com |
MetaCarta is a private 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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[edit] History
Company 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 allows to find references to locations in documents and thus documents can be retrieved when a geographical keyword is entered. MetaCarta also received funding from In-Q-Tel, CIA-related organization. [3]
[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 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. The first, OpenLayers, is now a project in the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. TileCache and FeatureServer are two others.
[edit] Team Members
- András Kornai - Chief Scientist
[edit] See Also
- Erik Rauch - Company Co-Founder (May 15, 1974-July 13, 2005)
[edit] References
- ^ MetaCarta: About. MetaCarta. Retrieved on 2008-05-14.
- ^ Where 2.0 Conference Speaker - John R. Frank. O'Reilly. Retrieved on 2008-05-16.
- ^ MetaCarta lands second funding from CIA. Boston Business Journal. Retrieved on 2008-05-16.
