MetaCarta, Inc., the leading provider of geographic search and referencing solutions, announced it has partnered with Sitesa, a leading provider of GIS and search products for the government and media markets in Spain and Portugal. For the first time, Sitesa’s customers will be able search structured and unstructured data for geographic references as well as make Spanish documents "location-aware" enabling that information to be geographically categorized, visualized and mined.
Sitesa is the exclusive value added reseller (VAR) in Spain and Portugal to offer MetaCarta’s solutions, including the Spanish geographic data module (GDM) which allows organizations to identify, disambiguate, and resolve Spanish language geographic references found in documents. The Spanish GDM enables MetaCarta products to automatically identify the language and character set of each document and assign latitude and longitude coordinates and country code tags to each place name in the document. Sitesa will demonstrate the MetaCarta solutions at the ESRI Spain Conference Oct 10-11, 2007.
“Location is becoming more important for all global businesses. Location information isn’t always stored in databases but is found on the Internet, social media, and in other repositories,” said John Donnelly, III, Vice President World Wide Sales and Field Operations at MetaCarta. “In addition, the information is not necessarily in English. Until now, organizations haven’t had the tools to mine multilingual location-based information and use it to make more complete business decisions.”
“MetaCarta’s solutions complement Sitesa’s current offerings from ESRI and Google, as we have already demonstrated integration with those solutions to our main customers, which include Spanish Defense, Intelligence and media organizations, and have seen tremendous response,” said Alberto Corbi, Managing Director of Sitesa-GrupoEP. “We are thrilled to have MetaCarta as a partner, as geocoding unstructured information adds great value to our customers; and we look forward to bringing the power of MetaCarta’s technology to Europe.”