In April 2010, MetaCarta was acquired by Nokia which firm subsequently spun out the enterprise products division and the MetaCarta brand to Qbase. Originally based in Cambridge, MA, MetaCarta beg an by using a text search algorithm that retrieved content based on geographic keywords. The firm's Geographic Text Search (GTS) would confine searches by geography and retrieve keyword detected information to displays this information geographically on a map interface. With the pre-company founding data funded by DARPA and company support with private VC investment that included In-Q-Tel - a private fund established by the Central Intelligence Agency - the original mission of the company was to create a link between content management systems (CMS) and GIS - an operation the firm called 'geoparsing.'" In effect, the firm provided geographic intelligence solutions products making data and unstructured content "location-aware" making that information geographically relevant.
