MapText Releases Low-Cost High-Quality Integrated Text Placement Software for MapInfo

Plainsboro, New Jersey - September 13, 2005

MapText, Inc. has announced the release of SmartLabel 1.0, a long-awaited low-cost text placement engine that seamlessly integrates with MapInfo Professional.

MapText has selected important capabilities of its flagship high-end multi-GIS text placement product, Label-EZ, and created SmartLabel, an easy-to-install and fully integrated software package for MapInfo users to display or print high-quality maps.

SmartLabel has two modes of operation: (1) dynamic and (2) static. In the dynamic labeling mode the system automatically re-labels the map as the user pans or zooms, thereby optimizing the placement of labels in the current view. In the static mode, the user can provide a scale or map extent at which the text placement should be done.

Labeling is flexible and custom parameters are configurable through a simple and easy-to-use interface. The various placement capabilities are illustrated by descriptive pictograms to facilitate instant understanding.

Such capabilities for line features include placing labels above, below, or in the middle of the feature, cased (European-style) text placement, and stacking, spreading or repeating words. For point features, the capabilities include eight selectable preferred positions of the text relative to the feature, allowing or disallowing labels to cross lines, or allowing or disallowing overlapping text. For area features, users are able to select whether the text should be fully or partially inside the feature, placed horizontally or along the dominant angle of the polygon. Numerous more capabilities are also at the user’s fingertips.

A single-computer permanent license of SmartLabel is priced at $985. 

“MapText has positioned SmartLabel to penetrate the MapInfo mass market and provide MapInfo users with high cartographic quality and excellent return on investment. We welcome resellers to help us get the product to a large segment of the MapInfo community as quickly as possible,” Dr. Herbert Freeman, President of MapText, Inc., commented.

Prospective resellers and customers are encouraged to contact MapText at sales.smartlabel@maptext.com for updated information about this product.