MapText, Inc. Solutions Help City of San Jose Improve Map Quality and Increase Productivity

Plainsboro, New Jersey - March 28, 2003

The City of San Jose Public Works Department (PWD) has chosen MapText, Inc.’s technology in an effort to improve the quality of maps that the City produces and to reduce the time spent in achieving a high quality text placement. The City selected MapText’s Label-EZ™ and Label-Edit™ software because of the products’ ability to provide a high quality output of various map types and its ability to work directly with Intergraph’s GeoMedia supported data connections.

With the new text placement production system, the City of San Jose is experiencing improved quality text placement for the maps and significant reduction in the time spent for generating standard and custom maps for various City departments and other agencies. The labeling results from Label-EZ are stored in an Oracle Spatial warehouse and can be easily accessed by other City staff.

Prior to implementing MapText’s text placement solutions, the City used the text placement tech­nology within GIS systems for producing maps. It used to average 16 to 24 working hours to produce the simple maps. With MapText’s technology, City staff is now able to prepare the same maps in a matter of minutes and can handle requests for much more complex maps.

"Label-EZ is invaluable in our work because we don't have to spend as much time manipulating text in an effort to prepare high quality maps. The software yields the highest quality results using data from multiple sources. This allows us to spend more time on application development and data analysis, thereby helping us to make better decisions”, said Harsh Gautam, GIS Development Manager for the Public Works Department.

The City of San Jose also chose MapText’s training services to acquire a quicker and more successful deployment. “We made more progress on the city’s entire mapping system in one week using MapText’s support team than we had believed possible”, said Kevin Briggs, GIS/Infrastructure Section Manager. “MapText professionals understood the mapping environ­ment at the City and helped to seamlessly integrate their products into our existing workflow. They also provided enormous value and benefits to the City of San Jose’s GIS efforts. It was one of the best decisions we made in the year 2002.” Label-EZ is being used extensively for generating customized maps and will be used to annotate various GIS layers for a map-book and also for on-line access.