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  • New Rate Limits for the Geocoding & Places API Effective July 1, 2025

    We’re making some important updates to how our Geocoding & Places API handles traffic. These changes will go into effect on July 1, 2025, and are designed to make our…

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  • Streamline Geocoding with Input Cleaning

    Accurate addresses are key—but customers sometimes enter incorrect or even random info, leading to manual checks, callbacks, or wasted resources. If this sounds familiar, our new address input cleaning feature…

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  • Driving events available

    With events you get detailed information about everything relevant that happens along a route in chronological order like maneuvers, border crossings or using toll roads. Moreover, in the method ‘calculateRoutePost’…

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  • Introducing Route Duration Balancing

    We have introduced an enhancement to our Route Optimization OptiFlow API: Route Duration Balancing. Responding to user requests for improved workload equity and predictable scheduling, this feature allows planners to…

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  • Introducing Our New Showcase: Try Out the Batch Geocoding API!

    We are excited to announce a new showcase that allows you to experience the power and efficiency of our Batch Geocoding API. The Batch Geocoding is designed to handle large…

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  • API testing with new tool

    After exploring our PTV Developer API references you often have the need to test different aspects and see what you get as a result. Therefore you can use our codes…

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  • Truck routes only on request

    There is a large variety of truck routes across the world, where vehicles must follow or at least should use them. Vehicle examples are trucks with hazardous goods or long…

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  • Exemptions for low-emission zones

    Low-emission zones are areas within cities where certain vehicles have restricted access, if they do not meet the requirements like a minimum emission standard to enter. The main purpose is…

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  • Shorter than short

    By default, a route is optimized for travel time (routing mode ‘FAST’). The result is a fast route a real driver would follow accepting a longer distance, if necessary. You…

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