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6/24/2008
MetaCarta and Carahsoft Team to Provide Government With Industry Leading Geographic Search Solutions
MetaCarta Solutions Added to Carahsoft GSA Schedule
6/11/2008
Boston.com Selects MetaCarta's Geographic Search Technology to Develop Hyperlocalized Solutions for Users
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.
6/9/2008
MetaCarta Launches Blog to Discuss How Geography and Maps are Transforming the Internet
The MetaCarta Blog is an online community where MetaCarta and other industry experts and visitors can connect to discuss their views on new and innovative ideas and to share their collective knowledge of how geography is adding a new dimension to the Internet to create the “geoweb".
6/4/2008
MetaCarta Opens New York City Office
MetaCarta has opened a new office based in New York City in response to strong regional demand from digital media organizations headquartered in the region.
3/24/2008
MetaCarta Launches New Web Site that Collects Local News from Around the World and Visually Displays it on a Map
New Geographic Search Engine Ideal for News, Real Estate, and Travel Applications. GeoSearch News indexes an extensive collection of more than 1,400 national, international and local news sources every hour in addition to direct feeds from the Associated Press and Reuters. GeoSearch News provides users a single site on which they can learn what is happening now at any destination in the world.
2/12/2008
MetaCarta Enables GeoSearch for USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Crop Explorer
MetaCarta®, Inc., the leading provider of geographic search and referencing solutions, today announced that the United States Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA-FAS) has selected MetaCarta GTS for Crop Explorer.
2/11/2008
MetaCarta Local Alerts Chosen by Lowell Publishing Company to Deliver Neighborhood News via Email
MetaCarta®, Inc., the leading provider of geographic information retrieval and search solutions, today announced that the Lowell Publishing Company, a MediaNews Group company and publisher of the Lowell Sun, The NH Broadcaster, Sentinel & Enterprise, The Valley Dispatch and Nashoba Publishing are using MetaCarta Local Alerts Service to inform their web site users about news stories and community events related to their neighborhood. Local Alerts is a registration-based service that delivers users personalized up-to-date news about the neighborhoods in which they live, work or go to school
2/4/2008
MetaCarta Introduces GeoTagger OnDemand for Digital Publishers
YourStreet Transforms Local News using MetaCarta
12/17/2007
Schlumberger Acquires Exclusive Distribution Rights to MetaCarta for Oil & Gas Sector
Schlumberger today announced the acquisition of exclusive distribution rights to the oil and gas sector for the MetaCarta map-based geographic information search technologies, from MetaCarta, Inc.
12/10/2007
MetaCarta Introduces NewsMap Service for Online News Publishers - Reuters.com Using MetaCarta to Display News on Maps
MetaCarta®, Inc., the leading provider of geographic search and referencing solutions, today announced MetaCarta NewsMap service, a new hosted service that allows online media outlets to display maps that show the places mentioned in their news stories.
10/22/2007
National Geographic and MetaCarta Introduce CartaLens Geospatial Digital Asset Management Solution
National Geographic Maps and MetaCarta®, Inc., the leading provider of geographic search and referencing solutions, today announced CartaLens, an innovative geospatial digital asset management solution for georeferencing, managing , retrieving and delivering digital assets.
10/10/2007
GeoDecisions Integrates MetaCarta Geographic Search into IRRIS Logistics Technology
MetaCarta®, Inc., the leading provider of geographic search solutions, and GeoDecisions®, an award-winning leader in the information technology industry that specializes in geospatial solutions, today announced the integration of MetaCarta Geographic Text Search (GTS) into GeoDecisions IRRIS®.
9/24/2007
MySanAntonio.com Partners with MetaCarta to Deliver Neighborhood News via Email
MetaCarta®, Inc., the leading provider of geographic information retrieval and search solutions, today announced that MySanAntonio.com is using MetaCarta Local Alerts Service for Publishers to inform people about news stories and community events related to their favorite city, town, or neighborhood.
9/24/2007
MetaCarta Announces Local Alerts Service for Online Publishers
MetaCarta®, Inc., the leading provider of geographic information retrieval and search solutions, today announced the MetaCarta Local Alerts Service for Publishers, the industry’s first solution that notifies users when there is new content that mentions the places they care about most.
8/13/2007
MetaCarta Partners with Sitesa to Offer Geographic Search Solutions to Spain and Portugal
MetaCarta®, Inc., the leading provider of geographic search and referencing solutions, today announced it has partnered with Sitesa, a leading provider of GIS and search products for the government and media markets in Spain and Portugal.
7/16/2007
MetaCarta and Mosaic, Inc. Join Forces on the Fight against Terror
MetaCarta®, Inc., the leading provider of geographic search and referencing solutions, today announced a partnership with Mosaic, Inc., a woman-owned, small business providing consulting and services to the U.S. Government.
6/19/2007
MetaCarta Unveils First Geo-referencing Solution to Support Arabic and Spanish Languages
MetaCarta®, Inc., the leading provider of geographic search and referencing solutions, today announced two new geographic data modules (GDMs) that identify, disambiguate, and resolve Arabic and Spanish geographic references found in documents.
6/11/2007
MetaCarta Partners with IHS to Provide the Oil and Gas Industry With Reliable and Comprehensive Geographically Relevant Data
MetaCarta®, Inc., the leading provider of geographic search solutions, today announced a partnership with IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS) a global provider of critical technical information, decision-support tools and related services, to enhance MetaCarta’s Energy Geographic Data Module (GDM) to provide the most accurate and up-to-date information when searching for energy-related information specific to a location.
6/4/2007
East View Cartographic Reaches Oil and Gas Market Using MetaCarta’s Geographic Search
MetaCarta GeoIntel for Petroleum Users Can Now Search Over 35,000 Pages of Maps and Geospatial Data
5/21/2007
Trinity Technologies Unveils GeoISE for Utilities Sector
Trinity Technologies Corporation, a leading business consulting and technology service company, announced today the release of GeoISE, a geographically enabled content management solution for utility companies. Powered by MetaCarta, a leading provider of geographic search solutions, GeoISE combines powerful geographic search with traditional text or keyword search so that content in EMC® Documentum® repositories can be mapped, categorized, and displayed using geographic parameters on maps, GIS systems, and virtually any spatial display.
5/14/2007
MetaCarta Partners with Clickability to Make Web Content Location-Aware
Partnership will allow publishers to localize, personalize and monetize content
5/7/2007
MetaCarta Announces Public Sector User Group Meeting
MetaCarta®, Inc., the leading provider of geographic intelligence solutions, today announced that their 2007 Public Sector User Group Meeting will be held on May 23, 2007 at the Sheraton Premier Hotel at Tysons Corner, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Attendees will view customer and partner presentations, share their experiences and uses of MetaCarta technology and contribute to the roadmap for future product development.
4/2/2007
MetaCarta Introduces Industry-specific Online Geographic Search
MetaCarta GeoIntel for Petroleum Extends Geosearch Capabilities to the Web
3/26/2007
MetaCarta Welcomes New Vice President of Worldwide Sales to Drive Company’s Continued Growth and Success
MetaCarta, Inc., the leading provider in geographic-search and referencing, is pleased to announce that John Donnelly III has joined as its vice president of worldwide sales based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
3/5/2007
Trinity Technologies Partners with MetaCarta to Provide a Unique Geospatial Solution for the Utilities Sector
Trinity Technologies, the leader in configuring, integrating, customizing and implementing content management systems, and MetaCarta®, Inc., the leading provider of geographic intelligence solutions, today announced a strategic partnership to create an integrated geographically enabled content management solution for utility companies.
2/26/2007
MetaCarta Expands Geographic Information Retrieval to Google Earth, ESRI ArcGIS Explorer and NASA World Wind 3D Mapping Software
MetaCarta®, Inc., the leading provider of geographic intelligence solutions, today announced support for KML (Keyhole Markup Language) for MetaCarta Geographic Text Search (GTS) and MetaCarta geOdrive.
1/31/2007
MetaCarta Awards Grants to Three State and Local Agencies
MetaCarta, Inc., a leading provider of geographic intelligence solutions, today announced that it is awarding grants to three state and local government agencies for a pilot program of MetaCarta GTS Analyst.