MetaCarta Offers Geotagging Plug-In
August 19, 2011
Geospatial context is the linch pin for cultural and human ecosystem modeling and analysis. Concept templates can guide models, allowing professionals to consider economic, religious, political and geographic features simultaneously. “Geotagging with MetaCarta” explains the Thetus blog, is a new plug-in solution for creating such models.
MetaCarta’s GeoSearch Toolkit plug-in for Apache Solr, an open source high performance search and index, gives us the ability to combine geographic search constraints such as bounding boxes and heat maps with the many other semantic and text-based search inputs that we have built up using Solr. This toolkit from MetaCarta allows us to run geo-aware searches through one unified and high performance search engine, rather than needing to conglomerate geographic search results from one data source with semantic search results from another source.
The GeoSearch plug-in by MetaCarta makes a lot of sense for professionals seeking ease and speed when incorporating geographic data into their work. Geography is certainly a specific field, and those not well versed in its intricacies often choose to stay away all together. Perhaps software such as this offering by MetaCarta can make geography a user-friendly affair. Thetus keeps a low profile, but the company continues to move forward with commercial and government work.
Emily Rae Aldridge, August 19, 2011
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