Release Notification Product Update HERE Platform for Business 01/2016 (D65)

Dear Costumer,

please be advised that a new release (D65) of the HERE Platform 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 updatesof: HLP Routing API, Enterprise Routing API, Matrix Routing API,Maps API for Java Script, Map Tile API, Map Image API, Geocoder and Geocoder Autocomplete API, Batch Geocoder API, Places API, Platform Data Extension, Route Match Extension, Traffic API and Transit API

You will find all API documentation on the Developer Portal.

Management Summary

The release is mainly a maintenance release, highlights are:

Support for traffic/time optimized routing for alternative routes
Geocoder now provides support for new address schema INWANI in Qatar.
Added intersection search support for USA queries in Autocomplete API

For more detailed information about the major improvements of the HERE Platform for Business Services and Products, see the sections below:

HLP Routing API

Version 7.2.65

Support for traffic/time optimized routing for alternative routes
Improved handling of restricted private/gated areas for car routing.
Customizable walk speed and walk radius for Public Transit requests.

Geocoder API

Version 6.2.104

Added support for new address schema INWANI in Qatar.
Improved matching of numbered street names in Mexico, The Netherlands, and Italy so that queries can contain spelled out or numeric forms regardless of that is in the map data.
Improved matching in Romania and Hungary for queries where words with low relevance from street names are omitted.
To improve the representation of the Polish administrative structure, changes were made to the administrative leveling in the Geocoder.

Geocoder Autocomplete API

Version 6.2.104

Added intersection search support for USA queries.
Improved matching of connected query tokens to connected tokens in results including house numbers.

Traffic API

Version 6.0.49.0

This release includes coverage extension for Flow including the following new markets:

Andorra

Map Data

Release 2015 Q4

Public Transit coverage improvements

Tram System

Berlin Tram (Germany)

Metro Systems

Baku (Azerbaijan)
Сairo (Egypt)
Caracas (Venezuela)
Lima (Paru)
Minsk (Belarus)
Panama City (Panama)
Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)
Sofia (Bulgaria)
Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
Tbilisi (Georgia)

A similar release notification will be sent directly to our customers two business days after this notification. All business customers and prospects that received access credentials for the HERE Platform and those that were reported by sales will be informed using the email addresses they submitted with their app ID request.

IMPORTANT INFORMATIONS:

1. Usage of HERE domains

Some of our customers are still using the Nokia domains (...api.nlp.nokia.com) for accessing the HERE Platform for Business services. Since April 2014 our documentations only lead to the HERE domains (…api.here.com). With this version of the Release Notification send to our customers we will inform them that Nokia/NLP domains will not be supported any more by end of 2016. Until than all customers latest have to switch to the HERE domains.

2. Migration of Enterprise Router 6.2

Since the monthly platform release in July the latest HLP Router version 7.2. offers feature parity with the Enterprise Router 6.2. All Enterprise specific features like e.g. Truck Routing, Traffic enabled Routing using Traffic Patterns, Matrix and Isoline routing are now available in the HLP Router.

Our customers are kindly requested to migrate from the Enterprise Router 6.2 to the HLP Router 7.2. The Enterprise Router 6.2 is now in maintenance mode: no new features will be developed and only critical bug fixes, map updates and support will be provided.
After March 31, 2016, no further maintenance and support will be provided, and the service will go offline.

In case you have any questions or need further assistance on the migrating to the new HLP Router 7.2 please contact us. We will be happy to assist you with the migration process.

The migration guide is attached to this email and public available on developer.here.com