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5/18/2010
New Case Study: MetaCarta software saves significant resource time by automating geotagging
5/4/2010
Finding oil in University archives
4/1/2010
Search-based applications support critical decision-making
1/25/2010
DGI Europe -- MetaCarta Booth 14
MetaCarta participates in DGI Europe at QEII Conference Centre London United Kingdom
9/21/2009
New Case Study: SIS and MetaCarta facilitate more efficient resource prospecting and decision making
Rio Tinto Exploration Adds Location-Based Intelligence to Streamline Information Discovery and Document Retrieval Process. In this case study you can read about how SIS and MetaCarta facilitate more efficient resource prospecting and decision making.
7/13/2009
The Boston Globe expanded Your Town into six more Massachusetts communities as the paper continues to hone its hyperlocal initiative.
The towns, Hingham, Malden, Medford, Melrose, Norwell and Scituate, join six other communities that served as trial locations for Your Town, which The Globe launched last fall. "We didn't feel we could validate the project unless we got it off the ground and saw some audience consumption and to see how advertising would fare," said Robert Kempf, Boston.com's vice president of product and technology. "We're running about twice our original plan for page views and for visits and have seen pretty strong numbers in unique visitors as well," he said. To automate the flow of news and information to the individual sites, Boston.com tags select content with MetaCarta's geo tagging software and funnels it through an aggregator tool through which Web producers can select stories to post.
7/13/2009
Mapping the Playing Field
The British Transport Police (BTP) use MetaCarta to secure the critical infrastructure of the UK Olympics. BTP is preparing for the massive security effort to protect the games. As a key component to their information infrastructure, BTP is deploying a geographic search and referencing platform from MetaCarta that consolidates data from multiple data sources by geographic location.
5/22/2009
Caliper adds to New England mapping software cluster
Unlike Caliper, Cambridge-based MetaCarta Inc. doesn’t provide actual maps. Instead, the company’s technology works with other mapping software, parsing natural language and unstructured data to plot definite locations.
5/14/2009
Google's Rich Snippets and the Semantic Web
Look at Jer Thorp's fascinating project announced just the other day, Just Landed: Processing, Twitter, MetaCarta & Hidden Data.
5/6/2009
N.Y. Times, Boston Globe go native with hyperlocal
Boston.com is using MetaCarta's GeoTagging application to distribute the hyperlocal content to the various community sites.
5/5/2009
MetaCarta Partners with Microsoft to Provide Local News to Microsoft Vine
Microsoft and MetaCarta have a shared interest in delivering information to consumers that is local, reliable and actionable.
5/4/2009
MetaCarta Providing Local News to Vine
To me this implies broader long-term ambitions for Vine than just emergency communications.
5/1/2009
MetaCarta and H1N1
I had John Frank, founder and CTO at MetaCarta on the phone on another matter and the discussion turned to mapping H1N1.
5/1/2009
So, is MetaCarta among the technologies behind Microsoft Vine?
Yes. I spoke to MetaCarta founder and CTO John Frank who clarified this statement from Microsoft...
4/17/2009
Web's Wide World
A convergence of technologies in recent years has brought the promise of the Geoweb closer to fulfilling its potential to provide maximum actionable intelligence and situational awareness.
4/15/2009
Mapping the Criminal Landscape
Major crime and fraud is not usually detected by a single event or a single item of data but rather a collection of seemingly disparate information that form a pattern of criminal behaviour.
3/9/2009
MetaCarta Monetizes News With Map-Based Discovery Navigation
Clear365.com, Fox Interactive, Reuters, and The New York Post are using MetaCarta's solutions to increase advertising revenue, make older content newly relevant, and increase portal traffic.
2/3/2009
MetaCarta and ArdentMC Provide Situational Awareness for DHS during Presidential Inauguration
The solution was used during the recent Presidential Inauguration to combine information from open news sources and DHS intelligence on a map so that watch standers could visualize what was happening in specific geographic areas in Washington DC during inaugural events.
1/22/2009
Police Select MetaCarta for 2012 Olympics
To provide the security necessary for the Olympic and Paralympic Games we need to understand at-a-glance what is happening in every venue before, during and after the Games events.
1/20/2009
British Transport Police Selects MetaCarta for Location-Based Situational Awareness for 2012 Olympics
MetaCarta will geo-enable in excess of 1 million documents from British Transport Police, and documents from the BTP's Memex law enforcement solution so that the information can be searched and mapped by location.
1/12/2009
GUEST BLOGGER: John Frank, Founder and CTO at MetaCarta
During crisis situations, “on-the-ground” information comes from a variety of sources such as news sources, citizen blogs, and various government organizations shared at all levels through the Homeland Security Information network (HSIN).
12/18/2008
UMapper Update: Use Text or Website to Populate Map via MetaCarta Engine
Instead of loading in point locations one at a time, it's possible to paste a block or text or a URL for a webpage and have the MetaCarta public API extract locations and post them on one of several background maps (Google, Microsoft, OpenStreetMap).
12/15/2008
The Space Between Maps, Search and Content
How do analysts make sense of volumes of unstructured information for law enforcement and government? Last week, MetaCarta hosted a webcast that attempted to answer that question.
12/9/2008
MetaCarta to Geo-Enable Online News for BBC
The BBC will be using MetaCarta Geographic Search and Referencing Platform (MetaCarta GSRP) to enhance their search capabilities for all content accessible at www.bbc.co.uk
12/9/2008
MetaCarta ‘Geo-Enables’ the BBC
It’s not the identical implementation, but MetaCarta is behind Reuters’ NewsMap.
12/8/2008
Search and Referencing Solutions Aid Hurricane Preparation
MetaCarta and partner ArdentMC have provided a location-based situational awareness solution for the DHS National Operation Center (NOC). The solution was used during the Democratic and Republican National Conventions and during Hurricanes Gustav, Hanna and Ike.
12/4/2008
MetaCarta Harvests Internet for Geographic Insights
Not just is MetaCarta streamlining the processing of content across the Internet and your enterprise through geo-tagging technology, they are building indexes to make it easily searchable for displaying on a map like Google Maps or within an application or web-service mash-up.
11/20/2008
Spending GIS Day with Boston Linux and Unix User Group
The presentation at the meeting held at MIT last night, on GIS Day, was about OpenStreetMap. No one seemed to know it was GIS Day, nor Geography Awareness Week.
11/13/2008
OpenLayers Brings Maps to the Web with JavaScript
If you’ve spent any time looking at maps on the web, you’ve likely seen one of those steel-blue vector maps with its funky, dark-blue, rounded controls – that’s OpenLayers in action.
11/10/2008
Reuters letting readers go places, map out breaking news
Agency rolling out software that lets readers see where breaking news is occurring.
11/6/2008
MetaCarta enables rapid development of GeoWeb applications with new developer's toolkit
MetaCarta, a provider of geographic search solutions, announced a JavaScript Developers Toolkit that enables rapid development of GeoWeb applications on MetaCarta's Geographic Search and Referencing Platform (MetaCarta GSRP).
11/5/2008
Interview with MetaCarta at Mobile Internet World (MIW)
Rick Hutton of MetaCarta explains how they have innovated search in using geography. Nicole Scott gets a product demonstration.
10/29/2008
Mobile Wireless Multimedia in Cable's Future
MetaCarta is exploring mobile wireless applications for its geo-mapping technology now used by government and commercial customers to link content and messages with geographic locations.
10/28/2008
NAVTEQ Highlights Expanded Coverage at GEOINT 2008 Symposium
GEOINT exhibitors utilizing NAVTEQ map data include DigitalGlobe, ERDAS, ESRI, MetaCarta, and Vision Solutions
10/27/2008
MetaCarta and ArdentMC Provide Situational Awareness for DHS During National Conventions and Hurricanes
The solution was used during the Democratic and Republican National Conventions and during Hurricanes Gustav, Hanna and Ike to combine information from open news sources and DHS intelligence on a map so that watch standers could visualize what was happening in a specific geographic area as real-time events occured.
10/27/2008
MetaCarta, Inc. announced a partnership with Exceptional Software Strategies, Inc.,
Under the agreement, MetaCarta geosearch solutions will be integrated into EarthSpector, a web-based GIS visualization and analysis tool.
10/24/2008
GPS-Based Mobile Ads: Where Does Privacy Fit?
Traditional search engines aren't enough to find out where a person is and what they want and then drive information to that person.
10/23/2008
MetaCarta partners with Exceptional Software Strategies
As the MetaCarta platform processes geocoding requests, EarthSpector server prepares the information for visualization via EarthSpector 2D, which runs in any web browser.
10/22/2008
MetaCarta to Present at the Mobile Internet World
An introduction to location based mobile services including presentations on user privacy expectations and technology to support location based mobile marketing and location based search.
10/21/2008
Improving the Art of "NewsMapping"
We've been working with companies like Reuters and the BBC for a little while now, and have discovered that just plotting the geo-center of a story on an adjacent map can drive page views up 20%!
10/20/2008
Geoint 2008 News: ESRI, ERDAS, Flight Landata, MetaCarta and Others Announce Exciting Exhibits
MetaCarta just announced a partnership with Exceptional Software Strategies, and both companies will be showcasing their wares next week. Be sure to stop by and see all these folks next week!
10/17/2008
MetaCarta to Present at the Mobile Internet World on Location Based Services
Bob Warren, Vice President of Products at MetaCarta, will speak about location based search on two separate panels at Mobile Internet World. MetaCarta will also be exhibiting at the conference (booth #417).
10/9/2008
Connecting the Dots: Geographic Tracking of Crime in Unusual Ways
One of the key applications realized by public safety organizations is the ability to link bits of news, police reports in this example, to geographic trends and deduce anticipated results.
10/3/2008
Geo-what? Oh, it’s coming to the UK soon…
New York Times’ Boston.com (the online Boston Globe) uses MetaCarta’s geographic search technology for maps.
10/3/2008
Is it MAGIC or is it MetaCarta: Part 1
If you are not sure what they do, then here is the understatement. They put documents on maps. The amazing part is how. I am making a tour of the State of Alabama over the next few days to make sure that my friends know this is out there. I do not evangelize if I don't believe that it can help our State.
10/1/2008
MetaCarta Announces Geographic Search and Referencing Platform (GSRP)
APB discuss a press release about MetaCarta's announcement of their Geographic Search and Referencing Platform (GSRP). MetaCarta are behind the open source OpenLayers, TileCache, FeatureServer and more.
9/30/2008
MetaCarta Unchained and Unbundled
MetaCarta announced some new ways to access the "secret sauce" of their search engine technology and launched their Geographic Search and Referencing Platform (GSRP).
9/29/2008
MetaCarta Introduces New Geographic Search and Referencing Platform
New Platform Can Identify 190 Million Place Names in English, French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic
9/29/2008
MetaCarta Rolls Out Geo-Search Platform
The software takes text content that contains place names in English, French, Spanish, Russian, or Arabic and tags it so that it can be displayed on a map.
9/25/2008
Topic: The MetaCarta French Language GDM
This GDM contains unique French natural language processing (NLP) and can identify French placenames within all-French documents, or mixed language documents.
9/18/2008
John Frank Addresses the GeoWeb
John Frank, co-founder and CTO at MetaCarta will describe the evolution of the "GeoWeb" and its impact on the intelligence gathering process.
9/11/2008
Add Google Maps to Locations on Your Site
MapMyPage is a new utility that enables bloggers and web site owners to attract and engage their visitors by adding maps, photos, weather, and more to the locations mentioned in their web pages.
9/2/2008
MetaCarta and Ardent Management Consulting Partnership
Agreement will provide Department of Homeland Security and the Public Sector with industry leading geographic search solutions
8/12/2008
MetaCarta Welcomes Ken Tomaselli as Vice President of Public Sector and Intelligence Sales
Ken will be responsible for all sales, business development and field activities within the public sector and the intelligence communities.
8/4/2008
Painless Location Mapping for Web Pages
MapMyPage uses its own proprietary technology in combination with MetaCarta's GeoTagger and the Google Maps API to identify locations in web pages and display corresponding maps.
6/12/2008
Boston Globe enhances local search with MetaCarta
Boston.com, the website for the Boston Globe, has added MetaCarta’s geotagging technology to improve the localised search on the site.
6/11/2008
Boston.com Selects MetaCarta's Geographic Search Technology to Develop Hyperlocalized Solutions for Users
MetaCarta will geographically tag all Boston.com content as well as information from other Web sites that are included within Boston.com Local Search.
6/11/2008
Boston.com to Tag Content by Location
MetaCarta will tag all Boston.com content by geography as well as information from other Web sites so that users will be able to search by location.
5/8/2008
Los nuevos buscadores dan respuestas concretas y en su contexto geográfico
La española Sitesa está especializada en las geobúsquedas: facilita el acceso a la información desde el punto de vista geográfico. La compañía integra distintas soluciones, como las de la estadounidense Metacarta, que permiten "identificar cualquier formato de información no estructurada y situarlo en un mapa".
5/7/2008
IEEE Homeland Security Conference Business Panel to feature experts on technology commercialization
Robert Seelandt from MetaCarta will discuss the company's technology commercialization success with federal and state governments, as well as the private sector (May 12-13 Westin Hotel, Waltham, MA).
4/8/2008
Take Control of Your Maps
As websites mature and the demand for geographic applications grow, the old mashup arrangement is starting to chafe. Mapping components are more and more vital, and so we demand greater control, expressiveness, and functionality from them.
3/26/2008
Quels sont les grands titres des nouvelles près de chez vous?
MetaCarta a développé une spécialité autour de la recherche de mots-clés à teneur géographique dans les textes, en l’occurrence, les articles de nouvelles.
3/26/2008
MetaCarta, noticias geolocalizadas
MetaCarta es un nuevo servicio web que nos permite conocer el lugar en el que ha ocurrido una noticia.
3/25/2008
Mapping website launched to allow geographical news search
U.S. geographic search company MetaCarta has launched a new website mapping news stories from sources across the globe.
3/25/2008
Mapping the News with MetaCarta
Tired of scanning newspapers, websites, and RSS aggregators for relevant news? Try finding it on a map instead.
3/24/2008
MetaCarta: Mapping the news
MetaCarta is launching GeoSearch News, a free Web site that maps news articles to their location on a map.
3/24/2008
MetaCarta Launches GeoSearch News
MetaCarta is serious about this as a consumer destination.
3/24/2008
The Ultimate News Search Map
[MetaCarta GeoSearch News] provides what may be the best geographic search tool for the largest changing digital data database of unstructured content on the planet.
3/24/2008
MetaCarta's GeoSearch News: News and Maps Mashup
MetaCarta has launched GeoSearch News, a Google Maps mashup which serves as a geographic news search engine.
3/19/2008
MetaCarta, suivre et localiser l'actualité
GeoSearch News blog coverage (France)
2/12/2008
GIS Cafe
MetaCarta Enables GeoSearch for USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Crop Explorer
2/11/2008
Yahoo Finance
MetaCarta Local Alerts Chosen by Lowell Publishing Company
2/5/2008
CBR Online
MetaCarta introduces GeoTagger OnDemand for digital publishers
2/4/2008
Press Gazette
Software automates news sites' geotagging
2/4/2008
Directions Magazine
MetaCarta Introduces GeoTagger OnDemand for Digital Publishers - YourStreet Transforms Local News using MetaCarta
2/4/2008
Newspapers and Technology
MetaCarta offers GeoTagger
1/30/2008
CMS Watch
The world is your oyster, but is the Geo-web right for you?
12/18/2007
Oil Online
Schlumberger acquires exclusive distribution rights to MetaCarta for oil & gas sector
12/17/2007
Rig Zone
Schlumberger Acquires Exclusive Distribution Rights to MetaCarta
12/12/2007
Journalism UK
Reuters plots news stories on interactive map
12/12/2007
Enterprise Search Center
MetaCarta Introduces NewsMap Service
12/10/2007
Editor and Publisher
MetaCarta Introduces NewsMap Service for Online News Publishers
11/29/2007
Directions Magazine
Is a Geographic Appliance in Your Future?
11/14/2007
El Pais
Los sistemas de información geográfica celebran su día
11/6/2007
Geo Community
New Book Underscores the Vital Role of Geospatial Technology in Homeland Security
11/5/2007
FCW
Tech that tracks your moves
10/29/2007
Newspapers and Technology
Web service lets San Antonio readers pick their news
10/29/2007
E-Content Magazine
National Geographic and MetaCarta Introduce CartaLens
10/26/2007
GIS Cafe
Notes from the GEOINT 2007 Symposium
10/22/2007
Directions Blog
CartaLens...aka...Flickr on Steroids
10/22/2007
Biz Journal
MetaCarta signs deal with National Geographic
10/21/2007
Military Geospatial Technology
GEOINT Roundup
10/10/2007
eWeek.es
Sitesa y Metacarta traen a España la 'geobúsqueda'
10/10/2007
El Pais
Llega a España la Geobúsqueda
10/9/2007
NASPA
Bringing Geointelligence into Your Network
9/27/2007
GIS Monitor
MetaCarta Launches Local Alerts
9/25/2007
Digg
Just Launched: Local Alerts for Publishers
9/25/2007
Directions Magazine
Podcast: MetaCarta Brings Geographic Alerts to the Media
9/25/2007
E-Content Magazine
MetaCarta Announces Service for Online Publishers, Partners with Mysanantonio.com
9/24/2007
Information Today
MetaCarta Announces Geographic Alerts Service for Online Publishers
9/10/2007
Yahoo Finance
GeoDecisions Integrates MetaCarta Geographic Search Into IRRIS Logistics Technology
8/31/2007
KM World
MetaCarta GTS: KMWorld Trend-Setting Products of 2007
8/29/2007
Kelsey Group
MetaCarta: A Better Mousetrap for Geotargeting
8/13/2007
Gis Cafe`
MetaCarta Partners With Sitesa to Offer Geographic Search Solutions to Spain and Portugal
8/9/2007
Directions Magazine
Today's Geography: Classroom to Boardroom
7/19/2007
GIS User
Partnership Provides U.S. Government Agencies with Geographic Intelligence Counterterrorism Solution
7/16/2007
GCN
Tech Briefs - GeoData Speaks the Language
7/5/2007
Texas Technology
Narrowing the Focus
6/22/2007
Smart Brief
MetaCarta presenta la primera soluci n para referencias geogr ficas en rabe y espa ol
6/21/2007
Gis Development
MetaCarta unveils GDMs to support Arabic and Spanish
6/11/2007
Rig Zone
MetaCarta Partners with IHS
6/11/2007
Offshore Magazine
MetaCarta, IHS sign data agreement
6/4/2007
GIS User
East View Cartographic Reaches Oil and Gas Market Using MetaCarta's Geographic Search
5/31/2007
Directions Magazine
MetaCarta Users Tap Unstructured Data for New Geographic Uses
5/29/2007
O'REILLY Radar
Where 2.0: Mumbai Free Map and Geo Community
5/23/2007
KM World
MetaCarta, Clickability partner
5/22/2007
GIS Development
Trinity Technologies unveils GeoISE powered by MetaCarta
5/21/2007
Market Wire
Trinity Technologies Unveils GeoISE for Utilities Sector
5/17/2007
Directions Magazine
Black Gold, Texas Tea: How energy exploration has new potential when information and geography are linked
5/15/2007
Gilbane Group
MetaCarta Partners With Clickability to Make Web Content Location-Aware
5/15/2007
Public Works Magazine
Bring it all together
5/10/2007
KM World
Make Better Decisions with Geographic-Driven Search
5/7/2007
GIS Magazine
MetaCarta Announces Public Sector User Group Meeting
5/3/2007
Forbes Magazine
Getting To The Next Level: Nice Little Business--Now Get Out Of The Way
5/1/2007
Newspapers and Technology
CTP, sourcing attract traffic
4/16/2007
GCN
Geospatial for the cheap…
4/6/2007
Geospatial Solutions
MetaCarta Refines Crude Search
4/5/2007
GIS Development
MetaCarta introduces industry specific Online Geographic Search
4/3/2007
Directions Blog
MetaCarta Launches Petroleum Geographic Search Portal for the Web
4/2/2007
GIS Cafe`
MetaCarta Introduces Industry-Specific Online Geographic Search
3/28/2007
Presstime
NEXPO Orlando: Newspapers' 'Survival Evolution'
3/22/2007
Directions Magazine
Geospatial Knowledge Modeling: Connecting Discoveries, Locations and Predictive Models
3/13/2007
GIS User
Industry Leading Speakers Map Out the Future of the GIS Industry
3/12/2007
GIS User
Developer Program Spotlight: MetaCarta Alliance Program
3/6/2007
Gilbane Group
Trinity Technologies Partners with MetaCarta
3/5/2007
Boston.com
Local firms team up on mapping tool
3/1/2007
GIS Monitor
MetaCarta Expands Geographic Information Retrieval
2/28/2007
GeoConnexion
MetaCarta Expands Geographic Information Retrieval
2/26/2007
Search Engine Journal
MetaCarta Geographic Text Search Offering KML Support for Google Earth
2/15/2007
Upstream Technology Magazine
MetaCarta Signs GIS Search Contract for SPE eLibrary
2/8/2007
Directions Magazine
Extra! Extra! Read (and see) all about it!
1/31/2007
Government Technology
MetaCarta Awards Grants to Three State and Local Agencies
1/19/2007
IDC
IDC Product Flash: MetaCarta Unlocks Geographic Content in a Global Energy Firm