MapText, Inc. Introduces Text Placement Software for Emergency E911 Maps

Plainsboro, New Jersey - May 24, 2004

MapText, Inc., the leader in high-quality cartographic text placement software today announced the availability of its Label-911 software package specifically aimed at placing text and symbols on emergency / E911 maps. The new software is an extended version of Label-EZ, MapText's market-leading text placement product.

Emergency management services will find Label-911 invaluable for creating up-to-date E911 maps indicating:

• Exact fire hydrant locations and water pressure (often color-coded).
• Street names, addresses, and block number ranges.
• Malls, hotels, hospitals, university campuses, airports, and other "common places" the emergency responders might visit more frequently.
• Dispatch zones - each firehouse and police station is assigned a first-response zone.
• Statistical map grids unique to the dispatchers - e.g., the number of calls originating from "grid A" last year.
• Flood zones, and much more …

Emergency management and homeland security are areas where accurate and up-to-date geographic information plays a critical role. As urban areas grow and change, emergency management services face the challenge of constantly needing to create new maps and update their existing maps. Since text placement is the most expensive and time-consuming part of mapmaking, Label-911 can provide an enormous benefit to those who face this challenge. It places the text for complex maps in minutes instead of weeks - and does so fully automatically! And, with the highest performance in the industry, Label-911 minimizes the need for manual post-editing.

Similar to MapText's high-end Label-EZ product developed to label a wide variety of paper maps and charts, Label-911 is fully compatible with all major GIS systems.