July 2020 Release Notes

Welcome to the latest release notes for the HERE Location Services. This post covers the D119 release of HERE Location Services.
These releases includes updates of: Routing API, Geocoder and Search API, Fleet Telematics API and HERE SDK for Android, iOS and Flutter.

You will find all API documentation and release notes on the Developer Portal.

Routing (Versions 8.3.3 – 8.6.4)

• Added length to OffsetAction
• Added support for traffic incidents in sections and spans.
• Added floating point pedestrian[speed] parameter.
• Added support for all parameters from /routes for /routes/{routeHandle} endpoint, except for parameters origin, destination, via, alternatives, and routingMode.
• Added boolean passThrough parameter via waypoints.

Geocoding and Search (Version 7.0.50)

• All endpoints: primary category flag for all place results with multiple categories
• Discover, Browse, Lookup: Place results contact information (phone, mail, web, fax)
• Discover, Browse, Lookup: Place results opening hours with isOpen flag
• Autosuggest query terms completion and termsLimit filter

HERE SDK for Android, iOS and Flutter Lite Edition (Version 4.4.2.0)

• Added Place.getGeoCoordinates() method to get the GeoCoordinates of a Place.
• Added departure/arrival information to the Section of a Route: waypointIndex
• originalCoordinates
• mapMatchedCoordinates
• waypointIndex
• originalCoordinates
• mapMatchedCoordinates
• Added Departure class with the following fields:
• Added Arrival class with the following fields:
• Added Section.get_departure() method.
• Added Section.get_arrival() method.
• Added Suggestion.getType() to get the new SuggestionType enum that indicates whether this Suggestion is a place, a chain like a store, restaurant or bussiness chain - or a category .

HERE SDK for Android, iOS and Flutter Explore Edition (Version 4.4.2.0)

Same new features as Lite edition 
 
HERE SDK for Android and iOS (Navigate Edition) (Version 4.4.2.0)

Added a new NavigatorProtocol which describes the main turn-by-turn functionality of a Navigator. Plus, same new features as the Lite and Explore versions.

Fleet Telematics API (Version 3.0.32)

• New Custom Routing feature: Avoid Unpaved roads
• User can specify whether and how strict unpaved roads shall be avoided
• New Custom Routing feature: Choose Speed Category
• Now it is also possible to overrule the automatically determined speed profile and use a specific one.
• New Custom Routing Feature: Modify all roads within a polygonal area
• The "Area Override" overlay upload operation modifies the attributes of all links    of the given LINK_ATTRIBUTE_FCN layer(s)
• More granular axle weight restrictions in  Advanced Datasets
• The "Area Override" overlay upload operation modifies the attributes of all links of the given LINK_ATTRIBUTE_FCN layers

Important:

Link IDs will exceed 32 bits soon, PLEASE PREPARE YOUR APPLICATIONS TO HANDLE LINK_ID VALUES > 4 BILLION!

IMPORTANT INFORMATION regarding new license terms for Location Services on Platform*:
For some of our new Location Services made available on Platform, we have changed the transaction definitions in your current contract with HERE. This will impact all existing Location Services users that have a contract with a license term based on Transactions such as Location Mapping when they start using Location Services on Platform. The changes are the following:

 *Location Services on Platform are the latest major releases such as Geocoding and Search API V7, Routing, Matrix Routing, Isoline Routing, Transit and Intermodal API´s V8 and Vector Tile API V2