Google-Style Maps Created Using MapText Software Quickly and Cost-Effectively

Plainsboro, New Jersey - September 27, 2006

MapText, Inc.'s powerful text placement solutions help mapmakers generate Google-style maps for online viewing, quickly and cost-effectively.

With its highly aesthetic maps Google re-defined the acceptable quality for online maps. Not only are their maps pretty, but they are also accurate and provide users with superb navigation capabilities. These include quick refresh rates for zoom and pan and the ability to grab and continuously move the map with the mouse instead of using buttons to pan.

A critical part of any map is high-quality text. Although web maps are mostly pre-labeled at several different scales and thus no dynamic text placement is required, automated text placement is still crucial for placing hundreds of thousand or millions of labels on these maps. Because of the very large number of labels, post-editing is not practical, therefore, a good text placement software has to yield a very high placement rate to minimize the need for post-editing.

Several major mapmakers around the world realized this recently and turned to MapText for help. MapText is currently working with well-known organizations to help them generate high-quality maps for their web applications.

MapText's Label-EZ software is uniquely positioned in the market to satisfy mapmakers’ needs for such maps. Label-EZ caters to the needs of users who generate high-quality maps using GIS data. It provides the users with the highest cartographic quality, great flexibility, and advanced capabilities such as leadering, key-numbering, stacking, route shield placement, and much more.

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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