Label-Web Gathers Momentum in Web Mapping Market

Plainsboro, New Jersey - August 1, 2006

Several organizations around the globe have adopted Label-Web, MapText's dynamic text placement engine for GeoMedia WebMap, the company announced today.

As organizations are moving towards improving the visual aspects of their web applications - driven in part by the high quality of Google maps - aesthetic labeling of maps is becoming more important. Label-Web offers the solution for high-performance, high-quality results in a web-mapping environment. The software has been gaining popularity over the last 12 months with an increased customer base amongst government organizations.

Most recently, GeoSmart (New Zealand), Riverside County Flood Control (California), and City of Brampton (ON, Canada) adopted Label-Web after thorough evaluation. Now with Label-Web, these organizations are able to present aesthetic web maps of the highest cartographic quality in a dynamic on-the-fly manner.

Label-Web places text in accordance with cartographic rules and conventions, avoids text-to-text and text-to-feature overlap (unless expressly allowed), and ensures unambiguous text-to-feature association. Most importantly, it achieves aesthetic, high-quality label placement so as to enhance rapid visual comprehension, while maintaining high performance suitable for interactive display over the Internet.

Label-Web can be easily integrated into a server-side script by adding a few lines of code to include the Label-Web application and initiate the text placement.

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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