Category: Technical Notes

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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Dear customers,

please take the following discontinuation into account.

“We would like to let you know that PTV AG will be discontinuing the PTV xServer version 1.12 (and lower as described in the table below) and corresponding add-ons on 01/04/2014.…

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Dear all,

PTV would like to let you know that patches are available for toll calculation using following PTV Maps on transit level (using PTV xServer and PTV Mapserver):

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Dear all,

PTV provides a technical video “how to convert your individual profiles when updating PTV xServer from versions previous to 1.17″. Please, watch this video and get familiar with the new XML profiles. This might be important to convert user specific routing profiles.…

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To use all features of the recently released PTV xServer 1.18 (BETA), there is some more information worth to know:

• Plot an elevation profile along a calculated route. The PTV xRoute Server provides the height information for each segment. As the height data is at the moment not included in the map, we provide it separately at the customer area of the PTV Developer Zone (login is required) for the PTV Europe City Map Premium.

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