MapText to Showcase its Text-Placement Solutions at the IMTA's Annual Conference

Plainsboro, New Jersey - September 12, 2006

MapText, Inc., the leader in high-quality cartographic text placement software will demonstrate its latest text placement technology in BOOTH 314 at the International Map Trade Association’s Annual Conference in Boulder, Colorado, Sep. 17-19, 2006.

At the event, MapText will highlight the speed, flexibility and accuracy of its powerful automated text placement solutions by demonstrating its Label-EZ, SmartLabel, and Label-Web products. These demonstrations will showcase the use of these products for:

• Labeling of street maps, parcel and zoning maps, infrastructure maps, oil and gas pipeline maps, highway maps, wall maps, tourist maps, and many more.
• High-quality output and map finishing in Adobe Illustrator.
• Integrated high-quality labeling for web-applications using GeoMedia WebMap.
• High-quality text placement within MapInfo.

MapText’s flagship Label-EZ product caters to the needs of high-end GIS users who need to generate high-quality paper maps in all major GIS environments. Label-EZ provides users with the highest cartographic quality, great flexibility, and advanced capabilities such as automatic leader-line placement, key-numbering, stacking, route shield placement, and much more.

Adobe Illustrator users find that MapText’s Label-EZ and Adobe plugin has increased their productivity tremendously.

The company’s latest dynamic labeling product Label-Web helps greatly enhance the quality of web-based maps in a GeoMedia WebMap environment. It provides high-speed and high-quality dynamic labeling for all feature types as well as capabilities such as automatic conformance to the shape of the feature, stacking of labels, and route shield placement.

SmartLabel provides MapInfo users with a low cost integrated solution to generate aesthetic maps. The product has an intuitive interface and configurable text placement capabilities.

For more information about the show, please visit  www.maptrade.org/events/

About MapText, Inc.

MapText is the leading label-placement solutions provider for local, state, and national government mapping agencies worldwide.  Its software places text automatically for virtually any kind of map or chart - to high cartographic standards and at incredible speed. The software is in use worldwide for making city street maps, highway maps, cadastral maps, soil maps, utility maps, as well as nautical and aeronautical charts. For more information, visit MapText's website at www.maptext.com.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, contact:
MapText Sales Department
T. +1 609-716-7552   Email. sales@maptext.com