No GIS handles text or labels very well, and in fact all GIS graphics
handling is, at its very best, barely adequate. A map is a complex graphic
product which requires sophisticated graphics tools for creation and
manipulation. A GIS is for storage, retrieval, manipulation and analysis of
geographic information. Once that is done and one wants to make a MAP (ie a
GRAPHIC) the data must be rolled into a graphics program.
That said, I was impressed last year at the International Cartographic
Association conference with the ESRI Maplex demonstration I saw. There was
also a Norwegian (?) company, whose name escapes me, which had some
improved map graphics tools which worked with major vendor GIS data. I must
search for the brochure...
Mark Denil
Halifax NS
>I have seen a product called Label-EZ which is used to place labels in
>MapInfo (and other GIS's) a lot more cleverly than MapInfo can. It can also
>handle curved labels, leadering, contour labelling etc. It is also very
>expensive. Are there any other label placement/enhancement products in use
>out there that can be recommended? Any of you that are producing high
>quality map products, what do you use? Do some of you export and do the
>labelling outside of MapInfo?
>
>Regards
>Tony
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>Tony Shepherd
>IT/GIS Manager
>Gore District Council
>Gore, New Zealand
>Gore, the brown trout capital
>www.goredc.govt.nz
>www.mataura.com
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