Web Services Features
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PC*MILER Web Services is a collection of RESTful APIs that allow you to:
- Generate routes, maps, and driving directions that are safe and legal for heavy duty trucks and other commercial vehicles.
- Calculate distances and drive times for trucking lanes throughout the world.
- Retrieve location information ranging from addresses and coordinates to detailed site information for millions of distribution centers, warehouses, shopping centers, and other places the transportation industry serves.
The charts below list the features and add-ons available with a Premium PC*MILER Web Services subscription. Contact us to learn more or you can request a free, trial key to test the APIs for a limited time.
Premium Features
| API | Feature | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Routing | Practical, Shortest, and Fastest routing | Use any of these three methodologies to calculate routes: Practical – A route that represents distances and routes a driver would normally take to minimize time and cost. Shortest – A route that represents distances and driving routes that a vehicle would take to minimize total distance traveled while still following a reasonable route. Fastest – A route that uses day of the week or time of day information in conjunction with real-time or historical traffic data to calculate the quickest route to the trip’s destination. |
| Routing | Routing for Auto, Light Duty, and Trucks | Calculate routes based on the vehicle type. |
| Routing | Routing for custom vehicle dimensions | Generate safe, legal, and efficient routes—from avoiding low bridges and sharp turns to following roads designated as truck routes—based on a truck’s size, weight, and physical and legal road restrictions. |
| Routing | Hazmat routing | Generate safe, legal, and efficient routes for hauling hazardous materials. |
| Routing | Hub routing | Create routes from a single starting place (origin) to multiple destinations. |
| Routing | Elevation limit routing | Limit routes to only roads below a specific elevation. |
| Routing | Emissions calculator | Estimate greenhouse gas emissions for a route. |
| Routing | Maintain heading routing | Build routes that avoid U-turns at intermediate stops and instead leave the stop in the same direction the vehicle entered it. |
| Routing | Side of street routing | Build routes that try to approach a stop from the side of the street where the stop is located. |
| Routing | Sites routing | Route to a location with a predefined boundary polygon around its perimeter, entry and exit points (gates), and other valuable locational information. |
| Routing | Route Modifiers (Avoids/Favors/Closures) | Modify routes by selecting specific roads you want to avoid, favor, or close. |
| Routing | Route Optimization | Optimize the order of stops to minimize the total time (when using Practical routing), or the total distance (when using Shortest routing). |
| Route Reports | MileageReport Detailed Directions GeoTunnel LeastCost Road State TollDetail DriveTimePolygon/Isochrones Route Path * | Create a route and retrieve a wide range of information about it—everything from PC*MILER practical miles (version 18 and Later) and turn-by-turn directions to trip costs and a detailed route path (version 34 and Later). |
| Classic Geocoding | Forward Geocoding Reverse Geocoding Batch Forward Geocode Batch Reverse Geocode | Find GPS coordinates as well as complete address information for a given street address or submit coordinates and get the approximate address on which that point is located. Can be done for single or multiple (batch) locations. |
| Single Search Geocoding | Single Search Batch Single Search | Geocode an address that a user submits as a single string of text—similar to a query on a web search engine. |
| Location Intelligence | SPLCs in geocoding | Retrieve location information using Standard Point Location Codes (SPLC). |
| Location Intelligence | Places | Retrieve location information for millions of commercial locations across North America that serve the transportation industry. |
| Route Path | Route Path * | Retrieve a series of geographic coordinate points that make up a route. |
| Vehicle Profile Management | Create, Modify, Delete, Get Default Profiles | Save and name a collection of settings that ensure the routing algorithm knows the type of vehicle being driven so it applies all physical and legal road restrictions when generating the route. |
| Mapping | Map Image | Retrieve a map image of any size. |
| Mapping | Raster Map Tiles | Retrieve a single raster map tile image at a given location and zoom level. |
| Mapping | Map Image with Route | Take a list of geographic coordinate points that make up the requested route and draw the route on a map image. |
| Polygon | County | Retrieve the geographic coordinates for a polygon that outlines a specified county or counties. (U.S. Only) |
| Polygon | State | Retrieve the geographic coordinates for a polygon that outlines a specified state or states. (U.S. and Canada Only) |
| Polygon | Zip Code | Retrieve the geographic coordinates for a polygon that outlines a specified ZIP code. (U.S. only) |
| No Rating (Current Version Only) | Advanced Routing Features ** | Create commercial vehicle routes with the most up-to-date Trimble data. |
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Requires additional license for JavaScript maps.
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Available as an API key setting.
Premium Add-on Features
| API | Feature | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Distance Matrix | Synchronous Distance Matrix | Submit a matrix with up to 10 x 10 origins and destinations and generate travel times and distances for each origin-destination pair. |
| Distance Matrix | Asynchronous Distance Matrix | Submit a matrix with up to 5,000 x 5,000 origins and destinations and asynchronously retrieve travel times and distances for each origin-destination pair. With configurable routing options, and vehicle routing profiles, distances and times are based on actual commercial vehicle routes. |
| Distance Matrix | Asynchronous Ultrafast Distance Matrix | Submit a matrix with up to 10,000 x 10,000 origins and destinations and asynchronously retrieve travel times and distances for each origin-destination pair. With a standard vehicle routing profile, distances and times are based on actual commercial vehicle routes. |
| Location Intelligence | POIs along the route | Retrieve the Points of Interest (POIs) along a given route. |
| Location Intelligence | Dwell Time for Premium Places | Calculate dwell times for your assets at millions of warehouses, distribution centers, and other business-critical locations across North America. |
| Location Intelligence | Posted Speed Limits | Request the posted speed limit for the road link at a location. |
| Mapping | Weather Overlay - Radar | Retrieve a weather radar to be overlayed on a map image. |
| Mapping | Weather Overlay - Satellite | Retrieve a satellite image to be overlayed on a map image. |
| Mapping | Road Surface Tile | Retrieve a map image overlay for road surface conditions. (North America only) |
| Mapping | Road Surface Route | Retrieve a list of road surface conditions at each point of a route path. (North America only) |
| Route Reports | HoursOfService | Calculate estimated departure and arrival times for all stops using detailed hours of service (HOS) information. The report also inserts stops to maintain HOS compliance. |
| Route Reports | WeatherAlerts (NWS Polygons) | Retrieve weather alerts for a give map view port. (North America only) |
| Single Vehicle Optimization | Time Window Optimization | Create a route that groups stops in a logical and efficient order while also taking into account specific time windows for arriving at each stop. |
| Traffic | Traffic Speeds, Incidents, and Closures | Use historical and real-time traffic information to improve routes and to calculate accurate travel time predictions. |