MetaCarta

MetaCarta is a private company providing geographic solutions since 2001. Their headquarters are in Reston, VA with additional offices located in Springfield, OH. 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 . 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 receives funding from In-Q-Tel, a CIA-related organization. MetaCarta was acquired by Nokia on April 9, 2010. Nokia divested MetaCarta to Qbase Holdings, LLC on July 13, 2010. In...