Pitney Bowes MapXtreme - Manual (Page 364)

Chapter 20: Routing
Calculating Routes
MapXtreme v7.1 371 Developer Guide
The following diagram illustrates the interfaces and classes that make up the Routing namespace:
Calculating Routes
There are three types of route calculations (determining shortest or fastest route) that can be
performed: simple routes (point-to-point), multi-point routes, and matrix route requests.
Point-to-Point Routing
One of the most common routing requirements is for simple driving directions where a customer
inputs two addresses, two points, or any combination, and gets back a route. The route will be
calculated from a specified start point to a specified end point.
At the simplest level of point-to-point routing, the response includes a route summary. This summary
includes the distance and time of the route. There are numerous additions you can make to a point-
to-point route request to return additional information in the response. These additions are:
• Routing Preferences
• Driving Directions
• Route Geometry
• Avoiding Points, Features, and Segments
• Time-Based Routing