Author: Martina Beck

Martina Beck has been working for PTV since 2000.
As certified computer scientist she was originally
responsible for providing customers with technical
support and she later moved on to the Product
Management division.

Since 2011 she has been working for PTV as an
online marketing manager in international marketing
with an emphasis on social media (et al. Facebook, Twitter,
Google+, YouTube).

The PTV Developer Blog is the PTV Developer
Components' lead channel. The posts on important
topics and trends originate from close cooperation with
developers, the product management and other experts.

  • Toll data update PTV xServer

    Martina Beck

    Toll data and scenario updates for various maps are available for download.

    Changes in toll data

    • France: new tariff since 01.02.2012
    • Slovakia: new tariff since 01.01.2012

    Changes in scenarios

    • New tollscenarios.ini file:
      – toll on secondary roads in Germany deferred to 01.08.2012
      – translation to Czech language
    • France: new tariff since 01.02.2012, France Plus Alsace and Ecotax
    • Slovakia: new tariff since 01.01.2012

    Within the “Content” download area we offer toll data updates for PTV xSever version 1.10 (or earlier) and scenarios for version 1.12 (or later).…

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  • Toll calculation with PTV MapServer 5.6.0.80

    Martina Beck

    We have been able to fix the problems concerning PTV MapServer 5.6 and toll updates.

    With the new PTV MapServer 5.6.0.80, you can use the toll updates again. For that, you only have to use our toll update tool and the zip file containing the toll update for your map.…

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  • We have good news for PTV MapServer customers!

    Martina Beck

    PTV MapServer 5.6.0.80 is available for download.

    Some of the improvements and bugfixes at a glance:

    • Toll updates are supported again. (For details read following post)
    • Kernel Improvement: More languages are supported now for the display of town and street names in the map.
    …

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  • HTML5 – What’s in a name?

    Martina Beck

    HTML5 is here! Or has been for a long time. Or never will be. It all depends on your point of view.

    Since a picture is worth a thousand words, take a look at the HTML5 illustration found on Wikipedia.

    HTML5 APIs and their standardization (Sergey Mavrody, CC Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0)

    As you can see, HTML5 is no single entity.…

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  • PTV xServer – great players in OGC environment

    Martina Beck

    More and more projects and customers want to have standard interface to get geographical data.One of the most popular standards consortium is OGC (About OGC).
    OGC delivers a bunch of standards in a wide range of different use cases.

    Some of these standards could be used to get maps, POI search and routing results.…

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  • Free webinar:
    PTV xMapMatch Server 1.14

    Martina Beck

    Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2012

    Time: 16:00 – 17:00 CET
    (new starting time!)

    Moderators:
    Joost Claessen and Bernd Welter

    PTV xMapMatch Server is one of the latest tools in our PTV xServer suite. It can be used to convert GPS trace to real driven routes and get the details from the route.…

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