Transportation and Water Management Organizations Select MapText Software for Web Mapping Applications

Plainsboro, New Jersey - December 12, 2007

MapText, Inc. announced today that several prestigious transportation, utilities, and water management organizations recently adopted the company's dynamic label placement solution for their web mapping applications.

MapText has been consistently extending its reach into the utility and transportation markets with Label-Web, the company's high-quality text placement engine that labels web-based maps on the fly in a GeoMedia WebMap environment.

As a result of the market's increasing awareness of Label-Web, MapText recently sold several licenses of the software to several organizations worldwide.

The prestigious list of transportation organizations includes District 2 of the Ohio Department of Transportation, New Jersey Transit, and the Kansas Department of transportation. The Ohio DOT uses Label-Web for their internal web mapping applications, the Kansas DOT for their KannRoad and KGATE applications, and NJ Transit for their web-based bus-route-planning system.

Label-Web is also expanding in the utilities markets: Aurora Energy of Tasmania, Australia, has purchased Label-Web through Intergraph's Australian office. The San Jose Water Company and the Hunter Water Corporation of New South Wales, Australia, also recently purchased Label-Web licenses for their web-based water management applications.

These organizations are using Label-Web, tightly integrated with Intergraph's GeoMedia WebMap, to achieve exceptionally fast and high-quality text placement for their web mapping applications. They benefit greatly from the high cartographic and aesthetic quality of the resulting web maps.

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 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. The end result is always an aesthetically labeled high-quality map.

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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