This provides UK route planning and direction finding services. The services use route based calculations
to find directions and distances within the UK.
Please note that the service only covers the UK (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) and not Eire or the Crown
Dependencies of the Isle of Man and The Channel Islands.
| Method |
Description |
SOAP,
.NET |
XML, CSV,
DS, RST |
| Distance |
Calculates the distance between 2 places. |
Yes |
Yes |
| BatchDistance |
Calculates a batch of distances between places. |
Yes |
Yes |
| Directions |
Calculates the best route between 2 locations in the UK, Europe or North America. |
Yes |
Yes |
| LogisticsDirections |
Calculates the best route between 2 locations in the UK, Europe or North America. Takes into account vehicle height, width, length, weight and axle weight legal restrictions and gives a preference to using main roads over smaller roads. |
Yes |
Yes |
| Verify Location |
Checks a batch of locations to determine whether or not they map to a valid position on the road network. |
Yes |
Yes |
| Optimise |
Optimises the fastest or shortest route between a series of waypoints. |
Yes |
Yes |
| Multi Vehicle Optimise |
Given multiple vehicles and multiple waypoints, assigns a sequence of waypoints to each vehicle so that every waypoint is visited by one vehicle, while keeping the journeys as short as possible. |
Yes |
Yes |
| Multi Day Optimise |
Optimises the fastest routes required to visit a set of waypoints given a maximum journey time when you know that there may be too many waypoints to visit in a single journey. Minimises the total number of journeys needed. |
Yes |
Yes |
| Advanced Multi Vehicle Optimise |
Optimises the fastest or shortest set of routes between a series of waypoints using multiple vehicles, with additional advanced constraints. |
Yes |
Yes |
| Advanced Multi Day Optimise |
Optimises the fastest routes required to visit a set of waypoints given a maximum journey time when you know that there may be too many waypoints to visit in a single journey. Minimises the total number of journeys needed. Uses additional advanced constraints. |
Yes |
Yes |