Category: Technical Notes

Dear all,

SAP has recently released SAP IGS Interface in combination with the PTV xServer 1.18. We kindly ask you to update from your running PTV xServer to the current PTV xServer version 1.18.1.2.

Please notice that the SAP IGS Interface shall not be replaced.…

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Dear all,

the benchmarks for the recently released PTV xServer 1.18.1.0 (xLocate, xMap, xMapmatch, xRoute and xTour) are available for download (section Benchmarks).

Kind regards from Karlsruhe,

Dr. Michael Nutto

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Dear all,

PTV has recently added new code samples in C# at the Developer Zone (section Code Samples). Please download the complete Visual Studio projects provided for each PTV xServer. Detailed information about the source code can be gathered through the PTV Cookbook.…

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You are using the PTV xServer with really long running requests? Like PTV xTour requests with lots of depots and orders? Or you are doing bulk address calculations with PTV xLocate? Well, then this blog post is for you!

Take a simple (but long running) request :

[java]
Plan plan = client.planBasicTours(transportOrders,…

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Dear all,

PTV provides some alternative rendering profiles in order to modify the default map design generated by the PTV xMap Server. The following figures exemplarily illustrate what is possible by using the alternative rendering profiles (sandbox.ini…

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The Internet is abuzz with the recently found Heartbleed bug that affected the security of many servers relying on OpenSSL code. This bug is serious: “Catastrophic is the right word. On the scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11.” commented security expert Bruce Schneier.…

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