Enterprise Products > GeoTagger

Summary

GeoTagger is a production-level geographic entity resolver that parses content, extracts geographic references, and resolves the geographic meaning intended by the author. This allows the system to assign latitude and longitude coordinates and country code tags in an XML output, which may be used as metadata and for processing by third-party systems.

Just as human readers assess the likelihood that the author intended a particular meaning, the GeoTagger generates a confidence score for every identified location. The confidence score is a number between zero and one that is the probability that the author intended the geographic meaning represented by the coordinates.

• Self-contained Appliance that installs directly on a network
• GeoTagger OnDemand available as a hosted service (no Appliance)
• Enables geographic information to be used by third-party applications
• Enterprise license to process 1,000,000+ documents per year
• For smaller document processing requirements, please see GeoTagger OnDemand

MetaCarta GeoTagger processes documents in the same manner as MetaCarta GTS. GeoTagger identifies implied and explicit references to geographic locations within documents and assigns the references to latitude/longitude coordinates.

Administrators may submit documents to GeoTagger using SOAP calls. GeoTagger writes newly created XML documents to the appliance or delivers the documents over the network via SOAP, depending upon the original document delivery method.

• Datasheet: View the MetaCarta GeoTagger datasheet

Core Components:

• Base Geographic Data Module (GDM) - MetaCarta’s data is the key to performing geographic searches with MetaCarta GeoTagger
• Enterprise license to process 1,000,000+ documents per year

Optional Components:

• Subscription license to Arabic Base GDM - Enables processing of Arabic language
• Subscription license to French Base GDM - Enables processing of French language
• Subscription license to Russian Base GDM - Enables processing of Russian language
• Subscription license to Spanish Base GDM - Enables processing of Spanish language
• IHS Global Oil & Gas GDM - Includes data for tens of thousands oil wells, pipelines, leases, and blocks
• U.S. Street Address GDM - Enables geographic entity resolution of U.S. street addresses
• Failover Appliance - for mission-critical deployments, MetaCarta offers failover options

Technical Overview

Like other references in natural language text, geographic references are often under-specified and ambiguous. For a detailed understanding of how MetaCarta GeoTagger identifies geographic entities, please download the MetaCarta White Paper entitled “GeoTagger versus GTS”, or visit our Geographic Entity Resolution Web page.