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MetaCarta
MetaCarta is a private company that provides geographic information extraction and search engine products. The company was founded in 2001, and was acquired by Nokia in 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Nokia Acquires MetaCarta )〕 Nokia subsequently spun out the enterprise products division and the MetaCarta brand to Qbase.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Qbase Holdings, LLC announces acquisition of MetaCarta Inc )〕 Their headquarters are in Reston, Virginia, with additional offices located in Springfield, Ohio.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=MetaCarta: About )〕 ==History==
MetaCarta 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Where 2.0 Conference Speaker – John R. Frank )〕 In 1999, he received $500,000 from DARPA after developing a search technology which enables finding references to locations in documents and thus allowed documents to be retrieved from a search index when a geographical keyword is entered. MetaCarta also received funding from In-Q-Tel, a CIA-related organization, as well as over $18 million in private venture capital.
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