MetaCarta Labs is our playground: a way to demonstrate ideas before they're ready for prime time. We want to hear what you do with them, and what you think we should do next.
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MetaCarta Toolbar for Firefox
The MetaCarta toolbar highlights georefs within the page you are viewing. It displays a map of these locations and shows nearby places mentioned in recent news articles. -
SharePoint GSRP Web Part
This Web Part allows your users to search a MetaCarta GSRP appliance from within your Sharepoint portal. Visual Studio 2008 source code is included in the download. -
RSS GeoTagger
Turn any RSS feed into a GeoRSS feed, using MetaCarta's GeoTag API. See the results on a map, quickly and easily seeing where the news of the day is. A great introduction to how MetaCarta's GeoTag API works. (See also: Tagger Source Code.) -
Recovery Map
See how the recovery is affecting your neighborhood, using data from cities across the country. Build your own map, collect news data, and share with friends. Visit the Recovery Map today. -
Basic Portal
This sample code provides a simple yet powerful starting point for developing your own workflows using MetaCarta search layers (uses data from demo.metacarta.com) -
Silverlight
Experience a geostream of 200,000 news articles per day. This Virtual Earth Silverlight app illustrates a "lean back" ambient experience that also allows users to deep dive on areas that peak their interest.
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MetaCarta Labs Rectifier
Take an image, and turn it into a map. (Note: The rectifier does not work in Internet Explorer.) -
Gutenkarte
Ever read a book, and wondered where the heck it took place? With Gutenkarte, we combine books with maps to show where a story is taking place. (Note: Gutenkarte may not work in Internet Explorer 6.) -
flickrbrowse
See the most interesting photos of today, around the world, placed on a map. Powered by FeatureServer and OpenLayers. -
Labs On a Stick
A collection of useful MetaCarta tools, including TileCache, FeatureServer, and OpenLayers, designed to run on a USB stick plugged into any Windows, Mac, or Linux machine.
Open Source
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FeatureServer
Serve up Features to all your web-friendly clients. A REST-friendly feature serving API. Read data from PostGIS, Shapefiles, Flickr, and more, and present them in a way that any client can consume them. -
TileCache
Serve thousands of map tiles a second, via WMS, TMS, and more, through a single API. Cache your tiles in Memcached, on Disk, or via S3. TileCache is the de facto standard for serving fast tiles from a WMS server, and is used to serve millions of tiles a day on servers around the world.