Nokia buys out MetaCarta

Nokia announced on Friday it has purchased MetaCarta, a Cambridge based company that offers “geographic intelligence” solutions. The world’s largest handset maker said it will use MetaCarta’s technology to add functionality in local searches on its devices.

The final purchasing price for the privately held company wasn’t announced by Nokia. MetaCarta said that its technology is used for “finding anything written about any place,” by combining geosearch and geotagging capabilities in order to make data and unstructured content location-aware and “geographically relevant.”

Founded in 2001, MetaCarta offers products and services that connect various kinds of content to maps through its platform, geographic data modules, geoweb applications, and hosted content collections.