This Network Analyst service (ESRI_Route_NA) enables you to generate routes and driving directions for two or more points in the United States and Canada. The service supports multi-point routing with up to 10 stops per request, including option to find best sequence of stops. The service supports the option for route barriers with up to 25 barriers per request.
The routing service is based on Tele Atlas 2008 reference data for North America and is limited to the coverage for the United States and Canada.
The routing service is accessible through standard ArcGIS APIs including SOAP and REST. The Flex API is updated in version 1.2 and the JavaScript API will be updated in version 1.4 to support Network Analyst routing.
The World Routing service is available at no cost to ArcGIS users for their internal or external, non-commercial purposes. The service has a limit of 5,000 routes per year, including 10 route stops and 25 barriers per route. It is available as a fee-based service for each additional block of 5,000 routes, including 20 route stops and 250 barriers per route, that can be used for commercial purposes.
See Using free routing tools on the task server for information on how to use the service in ArcGIS Desktop or ArcGIS Server and to learn more about using routing tasks in your ArcGIS application, or see Using the World Routing subscription if you're using the service for external commercial use or for more than 5,000 routes in a year.
Technical Notes:
- Route Layer Options: The routing service includes two route layer options: Route and Long_Route. The default Route option is intended for typical route requests within a local area (e.g., within a city or between two local cities), providing best-quality routes. The alternative Long_Route option is intended for longer routes (e.g., cross-state or cross-country), providing best performance. While the default Route option can be used for any request, ESRI recommends using the Long_Route option for route requests expected to be greater than ~300 miles between origin and destination (e.g., Los Angeles, CA, to Phoenix, AZ) to achieve best performance. You can quickly estimate the distance between route stops before generating the route by calculating the difference in decimal degrees between the points.
- Supported Languages (codes):
- Danish (da_DK)
- Dutch (nl_NL)
- English (en_US) - default language
- French (fr_FR)
- German (de_DE)
- Italian (it_IT)
- Norwegian (no_NO)
- Portuguese (pt_PT)
- Spanish (es_ES)
- Swedish (sv_SE)