Power of Geographic Search
Oftentimes, it’s not entirely clear to users of software like OpenLayers, TileCache, and FeatureServer what MetaCarta does.
Recently, John Frank, MetaCarta’s CTO (and my boss) put together a short (1m30s) screencast, demonstrating the power of what MetaCarta really does: The Power of Geographic Search. Schuyler graciously provided narration to the video.
This video demonstrates MetaCarta’s powerful text + geographic search engine, indexing millions of documents and responding in the blink of an eye. Using this search tool, it’s possible to do a full text and geographic search over millions of documents, finding everything written about an area even if you don’t happen to know the names of all the several hundred thousand places nearby.
As Schuyler’s voiceover says: “MetaCarta provides a powerful filter for finding everything written about any place.”
MetaCarta Labs on a Stick includes this video, and also a geographic search demonstration, showing how to use the GeoSearchCore download available from the MetaCarta Developers Downloads to add geographic text search to any OpenLayers Map. Of course, if you find this interesting, the next step is to read more about it on the official GTS Product Information page, and of course, contact us – but even if you don’t, now you know a bit more about what MetaCarta does.