New Jersey Transit Selects MapText's Label-Web for Bus-Route-Planning Web Map Application

Plainsboro, New Jersey - October 23, 2007

New Jersey Transit (NJT) successfully integrated MapText's Label-Web into its
comprehensive GeoMedia WebMap-based route-planning application.

NJ TRANSIT, New Jersey's public transportation company, adopted Intergraph Corporation's GeoMedia WebMap software for its dynamic bus-route-planning application. Soon a need for high-quality dynamic labels arose, and a decision was made to augment the system with MapText's Label-Web solution that has achieved enormous success within the GeoMedia WebMap community.

Label-Web is being used by NJ TRANSIT to generate labels for map features displayed in an intranet web-based map application. The application is designed to display NJT bus route alignments and bus stop locations throughout the NJT service area. Label-Web, working in conjunction with GeoMedia WebMap, is used to quickly and aesthetically annotate background features including streets, land-use entities, and highways (via placement of route shields) as well as NJ TRANSIT infrastructure features including railroads, railroad stations, and bus time-points. Label-Web configuration files allow the NJT staff to maintain label consistency and clarity on the maps. End-users are able to quickly produce detailed, informative maps at any scale or map extent of their choice.

With Label-Web, users can have aesthetic maps of the highest cartographic quality in a dynamic on-the-fly manner. The software places text in accordance with established cartographic rules, and achieves aesthetic, high-quality label placement to enhance rapid visual comprehension. 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.

"We are proud to have been selected by the nation's third largest provider of public transportation services. We are looking forward to further assist NJ Transit in making their web-map-based planning services more efficient and user-friendly," Rishi Mehra, MapText's Director of Sales & Business Development, commented.

 

About New Jersey Transit

NJ TRANSIT is New Jersey's public transportation corporation. Its mission is to provide safe, reliable, convenient and cost-effective transit service with a skilled team of employees, dedicated to our customers' needs and committed to
excellence. Covering a service area of 5,325 square miles, NJ TRANSIT is the nation's third largest provider of bus, rail and light rail transit, linking major points in New Jersey, New York and Philadelphia. The agency operates a fleet of 2,027 buses, 711 trains and 45 light rail vehicles. On 236 bus routes and 11 rail lines statewide, NJ TRANSIT provides nearly 223 million passenger trips each year. For more information visit www.njtransit.com

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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