Qbase Releases Next Version of MetaCarta Geographic Search and Referencing Platform Software

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Qbase Releases Next Version of MetaCarta Geographic Search and Referencing Platform Software

New Release Offers Expanded Geographic Data Module Reach, Natural Language Processing Improvements and More

Reston,VA –– June 22, 2011 ––

MetaCarta

, a Division of

Qbase,LLC

and a leading provider of information technology, business intelligencesolutions, and geographic search solutions today announced the launch of theirexpanded Geographic Search and Referencing Platform (GSRP) Software Version 4.5.1. This software release represents an importantupgrade to the geo-enabling search platform that customers rely upon toexpedite their location-based searches.

MetaCartahas extended its lead in the industry with the release of Version 4.5.1 as thefastest and most accurate geo-referencing platform available. With this release, MetaCarta’s BaseGeographic Data Module (GDM) has significantly increased the number of placenames recognized by its core Natural Language Processing (NLP) engine, and madefurther improvements to the efficiency of the NLP engine itself. The MetaCartaGDM works with the GeoTagger to create geotags (location name, latitude/longitude,country/province, feature types, and confidence score) for each locationidentified within a document. These geotags deliver the structured datanecessary to geo-enable unstructured documents.

MetaCarta’sSoftware Version 4.5.1 includes the following enhancements:

• GDM Enhancements

  – MetaCarta’s BaseGDM has been upgraded with over 3.5 million new geonames for anindustry-leading 27.5 million searchable place names.

• NLP Engine

  Accuracy

  – Updates and additions have been made to themodeling data which improves location identification within unstructured data,and works to more efficiently disambiguate both location names from non-locationnames, as well as between locations with the same name.

• Enhanced GeoSearch

  Metadata

  Queries–Users can now specify what metadata isreturned from a search in the MetaCarta Search APIs. This feature allows clients the ability toshare and filter using the JSON interface upgrade and enables easierintegration of a customer’s plug-in metadata for follow-up searches.

• GeoTagger Decimal-format Support–Decimal-format coordinates, as expressed by manymodern social media websites, can now be recognized and tagged as locations.

• Location Finder Reverse Lookup

  – This new functionality

  pr

  ovideslook-up of locations by either a bounding box or by centroid and radius which allowscustomers to identify specific locations within an area of interest. Results ofthese searches provide both distance and direction from the centroid of thearea.

• Map Server

  Enhancement– Customers are

  now

  able to

  add vector and raster maps to the MetaCarta Map Server by eitherloading them on the appliance or linking to them externally thr

  ough the Web ServiceClient.

  
  
  

Inaddition to announcing Version 4.5.1, MetaCarta has committed to a developmentschedule of two software upgrades each year, in the 2^ndand 4^thquarters. The new releases will focus on both feature and functionalityimprovements, as well as expansion of the GDM breadth and scale to increase theever-critical place name library. Inaddition, MetaCarta will release quarterly IHS Global Oil & Gas GDMupdates. As technology improves and business demands grow, this biannualschedule will assure customers that MetaCarta software isstate-of-the-art. 

“Intoday’s ever changing world of information, it’s critical that we are agile andable to adapt and grow as our customer’s needs evolve,”

says Ken Tomaselli,VP of Sales. “

At MetaCarta, we carefully listen tocustomer challenges and are committed to releasing two software upgradesannually as we strive to deliver on their requirements. Information isn’t the problem in today’sworld, getting to it is.  MetaCarta’s solutions help you find what or whoyou’re looking for, quickly.”

Adds Paul Kesaris, Senior VP of Product,

“MetaCartais fully committed to helping our public and private sector clients build andexpand their enterprise and global search solutions. Not only

arewe focused on providing key technological enhancements, like the expansion of ourplace names data and improvements to our NLP capabilities, but we are alsolooking at how we can package our solutions more efficiently.

”

As customers have requested,MetaCarta is aggressively extending its

Software-only configurations for those thatdesire the power of a MetaCarta solution, but with the flexibility of anon-hardware bound product. Throughout 2011, there are plans to releaseadditional Software-only versions of MetaCarta applications. Currently, MetaCarta GeoTagger, LocationFinder and Solr Toolkit for GeoSearch are available; Query Parser andadditional GDMs are planned for release as Software-only later in the year.

GeographicSearch and Referencing Platform (GSRP) Software Version 4.5.1 is fully available.For more information,

contact

your MetaCarta salesorganization.

About Qbase andMetaCarta, a Division of Qbase

Qbase

is an innovativedata solutions provider, delivering unique concepts and tools in the areas ofbusiness intelligence, data analytics, data fusion, modeling and visualization,and platforms for sensor data exploitation and geospatial information as wellas high throughput computing. Qbase solutions facilitate improved access anddelivery of actionable data content for commercial and military healthcare,federal, civilian, defense, homeland security and national information servicesagencies by applying innovative technology and demonstrated deploymentmethodologies. Together with

MetaCarta

, a division ofQbase, the growing organization also provides powerful technology for findinganything written about any place. MetaCarta’s unique technology combinesgeosearch and geotagging capabilities allowing users to find content about alocation in internal and external data stores. MetaCarta’s products make dataand unstructured content "location-aware" and geographically relevantfor easier organization and quicker action. With offices in Reston, Virginia and Springfield, Ohio, Qbase improvesthe effectiveness of our client’s data however, whenever and wherever it isneeded. For more information, please visit us at

www.4qbase.com

,

www.metacarta.com

.

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