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Written by Richard Marsden
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Tuesday, 08 December 2009 09:19 |
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Today, MetaCarta announced the release of version 4.5 of their Geographic Search and Referencing Platform (GSRP). GSRP is a geographic search platform that can also interpret and tag natural language with geo-location information. MetaCarta are describing v4.5 as a major upgrade with enhancements to the Geographic Data Module, tagging, connector, custom gazetteer, JavaScript SDK; plus support for OpenSearch.The Natural Language Processing (NLP) engine has also been upgraded to improve the disambiguation of human names from place names. Geotagging enhancements include centers of higher education, plus improved neighborhood and partial street address tagging. The JavaScript SDK enhancements include native support for OpenLayers, Bing Maps, and Google Maps. Further information can be found on MetaCarta's GSRP pages.
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