MapText’s Label-EZ Text Placement Software is now Compatible with Autodesk Map

Plainsboro, New Jersey - May 10, 2006

MapText, Inc. has announced that the upcoming release of Label-EZ, the Company's high-quality multi-GIS text placement solution, will be compatible with Autodesk Map 3D 2006.

MapText responded to a strong market demand by providing a proven text placement solution for Autodesk Map users. The number of engineers and geospatial professionals who need a flexible way to integrate CAD and GIS information is steadily increasing, especially in the utilities (electric, gas, water), communications, environmental engineering, oil and gas, agriculture, and natural resources industries. Users who create and maintain maps and design infrastructure will benefit from the high-quality automated text placement solution.

MapText's market-leading software system, Label-EZ, places text fully automatically on maps of any scale and style according to the highest cartographic standards and precise user preferences extremely quickly and cost-effectively. This results in enormous time and cost savings for users. Label-EZ provides users with conflict detection across all layers of information. Users can set placement rules for individual layers and also control the relative priority among layers.

The companion software to Label-EZ, Label-Edit, will also be compatible with Autodesk Map 2006. Label-Edit is an extension that provides enhanced editing functionality. Some of the key tools that users benefit from provide capabilities to restore suppressed labels, highlight and decompose labels, draw leader lines, as well as reposition, stack, and abbreviate labels. The editing tools are developed using the link between the features and the labels generated by Label-EZ.

MapText also plans to provide an update to support Autodesk Map 2007 in the coming months for both Label-EZ and Label-Edit.

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.

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