Natural Resources Canada adopts MapText's Cartographic Text-Placement Software

Plainsboro, New Jersey - March 26, 2004

MapText, Inc., the leader in high-quality cartographic text placement solutions, today announced that Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has become a user of Label-EZ™, the company’s automated cartographic-quality label placement technology.

The software is currently being used for the labeling of NRCan’s 1:50,000 topographic map series, each map of which covers an area of approximately 1,000 square kilometers. These maps are widely used in government and industry for management of natural resources, environmental issues, highway planning, real estate planning, flood control, forest fire control, and depiction of agricultural usage. The maps provide detailed information on terrain, lakes and rivers, transportation, populated areas, and administrative regions, and serve as an invaluable resource for outdoor recreational activities. MapText’s software significantly reduces the traditionally burdensome task of labeling these maps.

“We are delighted to have Natural Resources Canada as a client. The enormous productivity gain that can be realized from automatic label placement should prove to be a real and measurable benefit to the many mapping projects they have”, commented Dr. Herbert Freeman, President of MapText.

Natural Resources Canada, a federal government department, is among the many prestigious organizations that have recognized the enormous cost savings they can achieve by integrating the Label-EZ text placement software into their map production processes. In Canada alone, several agencies and organizations are saving valuable resources and time with MapText software solutions, including the Cities of Edmonton, Ottawa, Toronto, and Winnipeg, as well as Elections Ontario, Elections British Columbia, the Regional Municipality of Peel, and many others. Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) is a Canadian federal government department specializing in the sustainable development and use of natural resources, energy, minerals and metals, forests and earth sciences. It deals with all natural resource issues important to Canada.