Dear Customer,
please be advised that a new release (D94) of the HERE Location Suite is now available on the Production environment (PRD).
This email includes release notes that describe the improvements to the services in the new release. This release includes updates of: Geocoder API, Geocoder Autocomplete API, Routing API, Traffic API, Places API, Mobile SDKs for Android and iOS and Map Data.
As well, we will publish the release documentation on the Developer Portal.
Management Summary
The release is mainly a maintenance release; highlights are:
- Basic Environmental Zones support in Routing
- Balanced mode and fast speed profile in Truck Routing
- New HERE Mobile SDK release
- New HERE Platform Self-hosted Q2/2018 release
Routing API
Version 7.2.94
- Added environmental zones to supported zone types.
- Improved support for balanced mode in truck routing.
- Introduced the fast speed profile feature for trucks.
- Introduced a new resource for querying supported routing zones.
HERE Android SDK
Starter Edition version 3.8:
- No new features were added in this release
Premium Edition version 3.8:
- Added a new cartographic POI category for EV Charging Stations
- Added scooter routing as a new beta feature. Scooter routes are optimized for scooter and motorbikes by avoiding highway and having less impact in time-to-arrival than car routes when traveling through an area with high traffic.
- Added turn-by-turn navigation support (beta) for scooter routes.
- We support extended maximum zoom level as a beta feature. This is turned off by default. Once turned on, maximum zoom level is extended to zoom level 23.
- Added the ability to query for the estimated data size of selected area or route before prefetching.
- Added support for displaying drop shadows on polylines.
- Added the ability to retrieve the URI of a venue space's icon.
Note: This is the last release where offline routing supports on demand map data downloads. Starting from the next release, map data must be downloaded before handed for offline routing to work properly.
HERE iOS SDK
Starter Edition version 3.8:
- No new features were added in this release
Premium Edition version 3.8:
- Added new carto POI category for EV Charging Stations
- Added scooter routing as a new beta feature. Scooter routes are optimized for scooter and motorbikes by avoiding highway and having less impact in time-to-arrival than car routes when traveling through an area with high traffic.
- Added turn-by-turn navigation support for scooter routes.
- We support extended maximum zoom level as a beta feature. This is turned off by default. Once turned on, maximum zoom level is extended to zoom level 23.
- Added the ability to query for the estimated data size of selected area or route before prefetching.
- Added support for displaying drop shadows on polylines.
- Added the ability to retrieve the URI of a venue space's icon.
Note: This is the last release where offline routing supports on demand map data downloads. Starting from the next release, map data must be downloaded before handed for offline routing to work properly.
Map Data for Mobile SDK
Version 8.30.84.156 (June 2018)
- Inclusion of basic Scouter routing attributes for routing use cases.
- Speed limit changes in France
- Fixed issue with shown private petrol station POIs
- Fixed issue with casino POI categorized as amusement-park
- Fixed issue with missing Town names in South Africa when zoomed out
The following services had new releases with minor changes:
- Geocoder API (Version 6.2.161)
- Geocoder Autocomplete API (Version 6.2.161)
- Traffic API (Version 6.0.75.1)
- Places API (Version 2.63.0)
HERE Platform Self Hosted
Version Q2/2018
- Batch Geocoder 6.2.58.0 (D93)
- Forward Geocoder 6.2.159.6 (D93)
- Reverse Geocoder 6.2.159.6 (D93)
- Geocoder Autocomplete 6.2.159.6 (D93)
- Routing API 7.2.93 (D93)
- Traffic API 6.0.73 (D93)
- Map Tile API 2.1.70.0 (D93)
IMPORTANT INFORMATIONS:
General Rules Related to HERE Materials and Applications
• Inline with HERE Platform core terms, please ensure that the users of your application build on HERE Mobile SDKs Premium Edition constantly download the latest map version within a couple of weeks after the new map release has been available.
New incidents endpoint for Traffic API
• In May 2017, new /traffic/6.2/incidents endpoint launched to support more incidents data
• The old endpoint /traffic/6.1/incidents is still available and will be supported at least for 6 months
Public Transit API refactoring
• In April 2017, Public Transit API version 3.0.0 released, following refactoring of all endpoints to a new format. The API endpoint format have been changed from https://transit.api.here.com/metarouter/rest/routeservice/v2/(resource) to https://transit.api.here.com/v3/(resource)
• For now, the coming releases will continue to support all deprecated endpoints (with old parameter names)