County of San Mateo Adopts MapText’s Cartographic Label Placement Solutions

Plainsboro, New Jersey - September 12, 2007

The County of San Mateo, California, selected MapText's cartographic text
placement solutions for both their printed map production as well as their web mapping applications.

San Mateo County was actively looking for cartographic labeling products to create high-quality printed maps within GeoMedia environment. They also had a need to improve the quality of maps being served using their GeoMedia WebMap-based web applications.

MapText proved to be the one-stop-shop for the County. MapText's Label-EZ software provided the County’s users with the highest cartographic quality text placement, great flexibility, and advanced capabilities such as leadering, key-numbering, stacking, route shield placement, and much more. These capabilities enable the County of San Mateo to produce cartographic-quality maps with minimal post-editing. The software seamlessly integrates into any existing workflow across multiple GIS platforms.

With MapText's Label-Web, GeoMedia WebMap users can have aesthetic maps of the highest cartographic quality in a dynamic on-the-fly manner. The software 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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