Product Overview

Automated and Intelligent Text Placement

Maplex is a fully automated cartographic name placement software. Name placement can be one of the most time-consuming aspects of map production, often requiring considerable manual intervention to ensure that names do not overlap and are clearly associated with the features they annotate. Maplex provides the means to overcome this bottleneck in map production.

Why Use Maplex?

Maplex offers the solution for the time-consuming task of ensuring that names on a map do not overlap and are clearly associated with the features they annotate.

• Fully automatic text placement
• Conflict resolution between name placements
• Intuitive graphical user interface
• User-specified placement rules
• Point, line, and area referenced names
• Graphic attributes of text
• Graphic output
• Interfacing with existing cartographic systems

Who Uses Maplex?

Maplex provides sophisticated cartographic design capabilities to a new world of modern mapmakers.

• Professional cartographers
• Forest analysts
• Business demographers
• Geologists
• Many others

Are you an experienced cartographer looking to implement the latest technology in a manner that saves you the extra time you need to perform more creative tasks? Are you a novice mapmaker looking for software that helps you perform your job even better and faster? Whether you are a professional mapmaker, novice, or somewhere in between, Maplex gives you the utmost cartographic advantage.