Qbase
Releases Upgraded MetaCarta GeoSearch Toolkit for Solr
Reston, VA –– March 1, 2011 –– Qbase
LLC., a leading provider of information technology and business intelligence
solutions, just six months after acquiring MetaCarta, today announced the second generation of its MetaCarta GeoSearch Toolkit for Solr. The
GeoSearch Toolkit which brought true geospatial document search to Solr, the popular open source enterprise search engine, now adds
polygonal search as well as confidence and relevancy scoring to its offerings.
The GeoSearch Toolkit for Solr allows users to index and
search their documents by keyword inside of a defined geographic area. Unlike
other geospatial extensions to Solr, this approach allows documents to have
multiple locations and takes the in-text character position of georeferences
into account when computing relevancy scores.
With the addition of new features, users can now build
sophisticated search solutions that go outside of circle or square boundaries
and include polygonal areas. Additionally, new confidence and relevancy scores
enable users to place more trust in returned results.
MetaCarta GeoSearch Toolkit for Solr allows users to:
- Integrate with MetaCarta’s
GeoTagger service to tag geographic references within documents
- Search tagged geographic
references in conjunction with full text queries
- Filter results by bounding box,
polygon, confidence or other geographic metadata
- Rank results based on enhanced geographic
relevance and confidence scoring
GeoSearch is used to build various user interfaces and may
also integrate with other applications allowing users to focus on
geographically relevant regions and documents. Since content is localized, GeoSearch
drives geo-targeted advertising and categorizes content for better navigation
resulting in increased page views, driving users to other relevant content or
premium services and allowing maximum advertising rates.
“Since growing numbers of our customers are adopting Lucene
and Solr we’ve seen an increase in functionality requests for the GeoSearch
Toolkit for Solr,” said Ken Tomaselli, Vice President, MetaCarta. “We’ve
answered the most recent requests with polygonal search and confidence and
relevancy scoring and continue to gather feedback and information from
government customers in order to provide access to our tools from a number of
maps and search engines to ensure mission success.”
GeoSearch
Toolkit for Solr is generally available. For more information, contact
your MetaCarta sales organization.
About Qbase
Qbase
is an innovative data solutions provider, delivering unique concepts and tools
in the areas of business intelligence, data analytics, data fusion, modeling
and visualization, and platforms for sensor data exploitation and geospatial
information as well as high throughput computing. Qbase solutions facilitate
improved access and delivery of actionable data content for commercial and
military healthcare, federal, civilian, defense, homeland security and national
information services agencies by applying innovative technology and
demonstrated deployment methodologies. With the recent acquisition of MetaCarta
Inc., the combined company also provides powerful technology for finding
anything written about any place. MetaCarta’s unique technology combines
geosearch and geotagging capabilities allowing users to find content about a
location in internal and external data stores. MetaCarta’s products make data
and unstructured content "location-aware" and geographically relevant
for easier organization and quicker action.
The new Qbase meets challenges to improve the effectiveness of our client’s
data however, whenever and wherever it is needed. Qbase has offices in Reston,
Virginia and Springfield, Ohio. For more information, please visit www.4qbase.com, www.metacarta.com.