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BTP selects MetaCarta to provide Location-based Situational Awareness for 2012 Olympics
MetaCarta has partnered with the British Transport Police (BTP) to help provide situational awareness for the 2012 Olympics.
January 22 2009
BTP will use MetaCarta geographic search and referencing solutions to geo-enable and consolidate information from multiple data sources by geographic location and display it in MapView, BTPs intranet map-based visualization tool.
MetaCarta will geo-enable in excess of 1 million documents from British Transport Police, and documents from the BTPs Memex law enforcement solution so that the information can be searched and mapped by location. In addition, MetaCarta will supply breaking news from over 4,200 open news sources such as BBC, Reuters, and Associated Press as well as citizen blogs. All of this information is combined and visualized on a map to create a complete picture about the location so that analysts and watch standers can quickly visualize what is happening in a specific geographic area as real-time events occur.
MetaCarta Geographic Search and Referencing Platform (MetaCarta GSRP) stands alone in being able to provide BTP with the ability to identify places and points-of-interest in text documents, news feeds, email, reports, web pages and blogs, and assigns latitude and longitude coordinates so that the content can be searched, retrieved, and visually displayed on a map. Today, not all geographic references can be identified by traditional text search engines. Query results that take hours and days for analysts to comb through with these standard text search solutions will take seconds with GSRP. New, more geographically relevant information will be discovered.
The MetaCarta GSRP can identify more than 190 million place names and organizations are now able to geo-enable all of their content in English, Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic, or mixed-language documents so it can be used in location-based applications to help visualize trends and enhance intelligence analysis of more relevant queries.
Eptisa Ti, official distributor in Spain of MetaCarta, offers geosearch solutions which allow search results to be placed on a map automatically.