Georgia DOT and Louisiana DOT adopt MapText's Cartographic Text Placement Solutions

Plainsboro, New Jersey - July 14, 2004

MapText, Inc., the leader in high-quality cartographic text placement software announced today that the Georgia Department of Transportation as well as the Louisiana Department of Transportation have recently procured Label-EZ™, the company’s flagship product for automated cartographic label placement.

The two state DOTs now join five others – Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania – who have within the past year adopted the company’s chief product, Label-EZ, for producing high-quality maps. The Louisiana Department of Transportation has a staff of approximately 5,300 with an annual budget of more than $1.2 billion and is responsible for highway maintenance and construction, inter-modal transportation and water resources, as well as flood control programs. The Georgia Department of Transportation has an annual budget of nearly $2 billion, and its transportation system encompasses 113,995 miles of public roads and 4,849 miles of railroad.

The two DOTs selected MapText’s Label-EZ technology primarily to create:

• Travel maps
• Traffic volume maps
• County map series
• Right-of-way maps
• Other custom maps

MapText’s easy-to-configure software solutions will be used to place names on those maps according to the highest cartographic standards quickly and cost-effectively. MapText’s high-end Label-EZ product is fully compatible with all major GIS systems.

“The fact that these prestigious DOTs selected our software solutions proves again that MapText’s label placement technology can generate enormous cost savings and productivity gain, while providing uncompromising cartographic quality”, commented Dr. Herbert Freeman, President of MapText, Inc.