- Calculate the route from one point to another, with any number of via points
- Use dynamic segmentation in the routing
- Create isochrones from one or more points at a time (for analysis of location of facilities)
- Create distance tables
- Calculate the best order to visit a number of customers
- Get route descriptions
- Temporarily close or slow down roads
- Work with very big networks
- Identify topological problems in road networks
- AA (UK, copyright of the Automobile Association)
- GisNET (UK + Ireland)
- DAV (Denmark).
- Harper Collins (UK)
Maintenance / Support
We offer two maintenance options:- All updates and e-mail support 30% annually
- All updates, but no support 20% annually
Update policy
If you don't want maintenance or support, but prefer to upgrade at the time of release (or skip a release), these are the terms:35% of full price (1 major version)
50% of full price (>1 major version)
Minor updates such as 3.0 > 3.0x are always free
Upgrade policy
If you want to upgrade from Standard to Pro level, you have to pay the difference in price + 5 %.
Feature Matrix |
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RouteFinder has three levels of functionality, each of which has increasing facilities:
| Free | Standard | Pro | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Size of datasets (# of records) | 0 - 3,000 | 0 - 500,000 | 0 - 16,000,000 |
| Support of all MapInfo coordinate systems (also latitude/longitude) |
Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Use Km or Miles as distance unit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Supports MapInfo Street files | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Creates topological networks directly from TAB files | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Shortest / fastest path with point-&-click | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| One-way streets | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Via points | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 32 road classes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Multiple speed files | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Dynamic segmentation mode | Yes | Yes | |
| Routing via selection from gazetteer, i.e. towns | Yes | Yes | |
| Travelling salesman with point-&-click | Max 300 cust. | Max 3000 cust. | |
| Isochrones (polygon-based) | Yes | Yes | |
| Batch job operation | Yes | Yes | |
| Multi centered isochrones (voronoi-based) | Max 300 centres | Yes | |
| Multi centered isochrones (link or grid based) For analysis of location of facilities |
Max 300 centres | Yes | |
| Nearest centre analysis | Max 300 centres | Yes | |
| Distance-tables with route objects | Max 300 centres | Yes | |
| Nearest N centres | Max 300 centres | Yes | |
| Update Point Table | Yes | Yes | |
| Route Pairs | Yes | Yes | |
| Route descriptions | Yes | Yes | |
| Dynamic cut-offs and slowing down of links | Yes | ||
| Tools for identification of network issues: Subnets, Parallel links, Cul-De-Sac, Close nodes, Join links, Unused links, Overpasses check, Node-Link Check |
Yes |
New Features of Version 3.00
Dynamic Segmentation
Now the dynamic segmentation options can be used in Batch Route, Nearest N Centres and Travelling Salesman optimizations.
Nearest N Centres
This function will find the nearest N number of points from a selected start point or points. A very quick function that will use distance or time.
Multiple Speed Files
More than one speed file can be created, so that it is now very easy to switch between peak and off peak road speed or even walking speeds!
Route Pairs
This will use two tables and then generate a route from row 1 of first table to row 1 of the second table and so on.
Smoothing Isochrone
Although there are some limitations of this option, it can present some nicer looking isochrones rather than the spiky polygons produced by previous versions of RouteFinder.
Extended Data Check
This will check for object errors at network creation time and then present a report on possible errors with the network that may need further investigation.
Drive Time Accuracy
Drive Time polygons can now use dynamic node adding to produce even more accurate isochrones.
Updating a Point File with Time and Distance
It is now very easy to attach a time and distance to a point data set. This might be used to see how far pupils are from a school.
Unlimited Centres
You are no longer limited to a number of points for most batch functions in the Professional version. In the Standard version the limit has been raised for most functions.
Professional Version only:
Node-Link Check
You can now check that the links break at the nodes to make a topological network.
Overpass Detection
This function will check for links that intersect each other without a node being present. This may indicate errors in topology.
