MapText's Label-EZ Text Placement Software is Selected by the Virginia Department of Transportation

Plainsboro, New Jersey - June 22, 2005

MapText, Inc. announced today that the Virginia Department of Transportation has selected the Company’s market-leading automatic text placement software, Label-EZ, for its map production operations. MapText’s easy-to-configure software will be used to place names on maps according to the highest cartographic standards, quickly and cost-effectively.  MapText’s Label-EZ is fully compatible with all major GIS systems used by DOT’s.

MapText’s worldwide roster of clients now includes the Departments of Transportation of thirteen U.S. States – those of Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia. In addition to this, MapText software is also used with great success by the Departments of Transportation of Quebec and Alberta in Canada.

Virginia DOT operates the third-largest state-maintained highway system in the country, just behind North Carolina and Texas. It maintains approximately 57,300 miles of roads, 12,600 bridges, 4 underwater crossings, 2 mountain tunnels, and 4 ferry services. The Cartography Section at VA DOT is responsible to create and maintain several products, including accurate state maps, county road maps, and many other thematic maps.  VA DOT’s County Road Maps, which is the Section’s most time-intensive product, consist of nearly 200 pages detailing the state-maintained transportation network labeled with route shields and road segment mileages for all 95 counties. They have already used Label-EZ in this workflow.

 “At MapText we are proud to have Virginia DOT join the various State DOTs who already benefit from the use of our text placement software and to assist them in generating their maps cost-effectively with the highest cartographic quality”, Dr. Herbert Freeman, the president of MapText, Inc. commented.