MapText Launches High-Quality Dynamic Text Placement for GeoMedia WebMap

Plainsboro, New Jersey - November 11, 2004

MapText, Inc. has announced the release of Label-Web 1.0, a high-quality text placement engine that labels web-based maps on the fly in a GeoMedia WebMap 5.2 environment.

Interactive maps are quickly gaining popularity and fast dynamic label placement is critical for web-mapping applications. To achieve excellent user experience, web maps need to be re-labeled quickly each time the user pans or zooms, and at the same time, need to provide aesthetic and informative cartographic output. MapText developed Label-Web for Intergraph’s GeoMedia WebMap to achieve exactly this goal.

Label-Web places text in accordance with cartographic rules and conventions, avoids text-to-text and text-to-feature overlap (unless expressly allowed), and ensures unambiguous text-to-feature association. Most importantly, it achieves aesthetic, high-quality label placement so as to enhance rapid visual comprehension, while maintaining high performance suitable for interactive display over the Internet.

Label-Web can be easily integrated into a server-side script by adding a few lines of code to include the Label-Web application and initiate the text placement. The end result is always an aesthetically labeled high-quality map.

“MapText intends to use its enormous expertise in cartographic text placement for interactive web maps as well. Our Label-Web software was designed with both speed and quality in mind, and the current version for GeoMedia WebMap certainly delivers excellent results. In the future we intend to integrate our label placement technology also with other web-mapping software”, Dr. Herbert Freeman, President of MapText, Inc. commented.