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)