Kartta Foundation

A 501(c)(3) organization providing software and services to distill and assemble geographic knowledge for the public good

Contact us: kartta.foundation@gmail.com

Our Services

Kartta Foundation develops advanced machine learning tools for historical map processing, geospatial AI, and semantic extraction.

mapKurator

Automated pipeline for detecting, extracting, and geocoding text from scanned historical maps.

PALETTE

End-to-end text spotting model for historical maps, supporting Latin (English), Tranditional Chinese, and Japanese.

LIGHT

Multi-modal text linking model that fuse text's spatial structure, visual cues, and linguistic context to group map text into meaningful phrases.

Our Customers

We collaborate with academic institutions, research labs, and government agencies who rely on Kartta Foundation’s tools for historical map processing and geospatial AI.

Center for GIS, RCHSS, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Our Team

Meet the leadership behind Kartta Foundation.

CEO Photo

Yao-Yi Chiang

Founder/CEO

https://yaoyichi.github.io/
CTO Photo

Zekun Li

Chief Technology Officer

https://zekun-li.github.io/
Principal Scientist Photo

Yijun Lin

Chief Scientist

https://linyijun.github.io/

Contact Us

Have questions or want to collaborate? We’d love to hear from you.

kartta.foundation@gmail.com


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