Qbase Releases Upgraded MetaCarta GeoSearch Toolkit for Solr

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Reston, VA –– March 1, 2011 –– QbaseLLC., a leading provider of information technology and business intelligencesolutions, just six months afteracquiring MetaCarta, today announced the second generation of itsMetaCarta GeoSearch Toolkit for Solr

.TheGeoSearch Toolkit which brought true geospatial document search toSolr, the popular open source enterprise search engine, now addspolygonal search as well as confidence and relevancy scoring to its offerings.

The GeoSearch Toolkit for Solr allows users to index andsearch their documents by keyword inside of a defined geographic area. Unlikeother geospatial extensions to Solr, this approach allows documents to havemultiple locations and takes the in-text character position of georeferencesinto account when computing relevancy scores.

With the addition of new features, users can now buildsophisticated search solutions that go outside of circle or square boundariesand include polygonal areas. Additionally, new confidence and relevancy scoresenable users to place more trust in returned results.

MetaCarta GeoSearch Toolkit for Solr allows users to:

• Integrate with MetaCarta’s GeoTagger service to tag geographic references within documents
• Search tagged geographic references in conjunction with full text queries
• Filter results by bounding box, polygon, confidence or other geographic metadata
• Rank results based on enhanced geographic relevance and confidence scoring

GeoSearch is used to build various user interfaces and mayalso integrate with other applications allowing users to focus ongeographically relevant regions and documents. Since content is localized, GeoSearchdrives geo-targeted advertising and categorizes content for better navigationresulting in increased page views, driving users to other relevant content orpremium services and allowing maximum advertising rates.

“Since growing numbers of our customers are adopting Luceneand Solr we’ve seen an increase in functionality requests for the GeoSearchToolkit for Solr,” said Ken Tomaselli, Vice President, MetaCarta. “We’veanswered the most recent requests with polygonal search and confidence andrelevancy scoring and continue to gather feedback and information fromgovernment customers in order to provide access to our tools from a number ofmaps and search engines to ensure mission success.”

GeoSearchToolkit for Solr is generally available. For more information,contactyour MetaCarta sales organization.

About Qbase

Qbaseis an innovative data solutions provider, delivering unique concepts and toolsin the areas of business intelligence, data analytics, data fusion, modelingand visualization, and platforms for sensor data exploitation and geospatialinformation as well as high throughput computing. Qbase solutions facilitateimproved access and delivery of actionable data content for commercial andmilitary healthcare, federal, civilian, defense, homeland security and nationalinformation services agencies by applying innovative technology anddemonstrated deployment methodologies. With the recent acquisition of MetaCartaInc., the combined company 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. The new Qbase meets challenges to improve the effectiveness of our client’sdata however, whenever and wherever it is needed. Qbase has offices in Reston,Virginia and Springfield, Ohio. For more information, please visitwww.4qbase.com

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