July

PC*MILER 34

Our annual version release incorporates the latest map data as well as routing, location and mapping enhancements that have been made throughout the year. Highlights for version 34 of PC*MILER Web, include:

  • Better handling of “no through traffic” roads to prevent a circuitous route to reach a destination, while also avoiding these roads as a cut through.
  • A new sub-local road class in the map data for parking lot roads, park roads, alleyways, etc. Routing onto these roads is restricted, which prevents PC*MILER from using these roads as a cut through.
  • Updated commercial vehicle specific data, including:
    • Improved street-level map data, including weight limits, vertical clearances and truck through-travel restrictions.
    • Newly constructed roads and exit interchanges.
    • Improved city and ZIP/Postal Code placement and alignment.
    • Improved geocoding to better match an address to its actual “ground truth” latitude/longitude point.
    • Reducing the number of duplicate addresses.
    • Thousands of customer-recommended map improvements submitted via MapSure, our easy-to-use, online map reporting tool—directly into map data.
    • Updated toll data in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington.
    • Improved road speed data used to calculate ETA and ETT in Montana.


PC*MILER 34 also includes access to data about tens of thousands of additional commercial locations across North America that serve the transportation industry. Called “Places,” these locations range from distribution centers and manufacturing facilities to truck stops and Walmart locations with overnight parking. Places help you visualize an entire site on the map, such as a manufacturing plant, and they include additional details such as specific truck entrances and exits for more precise last-mile routing. 


Adding a Place as a Stop in PC*MILER Web


April

New Features

You can now search for verified Places in the Trimble MAPS database and add them as stops on a route. Verified Places include tens of thousands of commercial locations across North America that serve the transportation industry. These Places range from distribution centers and manufacturing facilities to truck stops and Wal-Mart overnight parking locations.



Once you add a Place to your route, you can also view its site boundaries and entry and exit gates on the map.




Enhanced Features

The maximum number of saved routes that can be displayed when you click on the Open Saved Route button has been increased to 1,000.



Removed Features

As a result of adding verified Places to search, only Custom Places sets will be displayed when you click on the Places button. The separate tab for verified Places has been removed.



January

New Features

The Chat with Support feature, which allows you to contact a member of the Trimble MAPS Support team during normal business hours, is now available for both Premium and Standard users. 



Warnings in the Route window: Summaries of truck warnings now appear in the Route window while you are building a route. You can click on a warning to view more information in a route report. Previously, these warnings were only visible in reports.