Important: Retirement of the HERE Limited Plan
Action Required by: August 31, 2025

The Limited Plan will be officially retired on August 31, 2025. If you are still on the HERE Limited Plan, please follow the instructions below.

Users on the Limited Plan will no longer be able to use this plan after August 31, 2025. To ensure uninterrupted access to HERE services, we strongly encourage you to upgrade to the HERE Base Plan before this date.

The HERE Base Plan offers:

• Free monthly service transaction thresholds

• Simple, pay-as-you-grow pricing

• Continued access to HERE’s latest platform capabilities

For more details, visit the HERE Base Plan pricing page.

How to Upgrade

Upgrading is quick and seamless. Just follow these steps:

1. Sign in to your account at platform.here.com.

2. Select Upgrade from the platform homepage or from the upgrade email you received.

3. Enter your billing and address details to automatically transition to the HERE Base Plan.

After August 31, 2025:

• Access to HERE services will be revoked.

• Users will still be able to log in to the HERE platform for a limited grace period, but only to complete the upgrade to the HERE Base Plan.

For questions or assistance, please connect to our support team or please reach out on Slack under the channel - #limited-plan-help. 

HERE Rendering Services

We have updated the geo-politicalViews endpoint in the Vector Tile API, Raster Tile API, and Map Image API to include the “US” geopolitical view.

HERE Real Time Traffic

• Upgrade real-time traffic engine to Q325 Map.

• Improved incidents off set logic, which would provide more accurate offset publishing and in effect would show accurate incident position on the map.

• Improvement in the Japan feed for Beta testing.

• Improved Time to arrive (TTA) speeds when a path is transtioning between different speed categories.

• Improved incident closure handling for Norway.

• Major global GPS probe supplier added to Argentina, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan.

HERE Tour Planning API

Ignore traffic route violations

Deliveries can now continue even when routing marks a destination as unreachable.

Some destinations are flagged as unreachable due to traffic-related issues like road closures. In many cases, delivery is still possible – for example, by parking nearby and walking the final stretch.

We’ve added a new traffic field to the IgnoreRouteViolations mode. This allows users to filter out traffic-related violations (e.g., closed roads, bridges etc) and:

• Understand why a routing error occurred

• Re-optimize tours by ignoring traffic constraints

• Improve delivery success in constrained areas

Flexible job grouping

Assign related jobs to the same vehicle, even if they’re not served consecutively.

In scenarios like school transport, the same driver should pick up a child from home, drop them at school, and later return them home. In other cases, jobs may require access to shared resources (e.g., keys), which must remain with the same driver. However, these jobs do not need to be served consecutively.

We’ve added a placement option to job groups. In flexible mode, jobs in a group can be served with other jobs in between, as long as they stay assigned to the same vehicle.

Benefits:

• Ensures consistency in driver assignment

• Allows more flexible and optimized routing

New objective: minimize soft time window violations

Serve jobs closer to their preferred time windows.

Soft time windows define ideal time slots for serving jobs. While flexible, frequent violations can reduce service quality.

We’ve introduced a new objective to minimize the number of soft time window violations during optimization.

Benefits:

• Better alignment with preferred service times

• Fewer early or late arrivals

• Improved overall tour quality

What's in the works

HERE Map Content v2: Layer/attribute removal dates and deprecation notifications

Planned removal of layers - Buildings layers

Per earlier communication, the following layers are deprecated and will be removed from the catalog on 23 September 2025:

• 2D Building Footprints

• 3D Buildings

Consumers of these layers must migrate their applications to the new Buildings layer that was introduced in 2024 (layer ID buildings).

Planned removal of layers - Places Footprints layers

Per earlier communication, the following layers are deprecated and will be removed from the catalog on 23 September 2025:

• Enhanced Buildings (layer ID enhanced-buildings)

• Parking Areas (layer ID parking-areas)

For questions, reach out to your HERE Account Executive or Technical Services point-of-contact.

Removal of NameType values from the Name Model

The EXONYM and ADDITIONAL_EXONYM values in Name.NameType will be completely removed in Q4 2025. Both values are already deprecated. A new exonym field has been added to the Name message structure and will be used instead.

Deprecated layers

The following layers are deprecated and will be removed from the catalog by the end of Q1 2026:

• Road Attributes

• Navigation Attributes

• Advanced Navigation Attributes

• Recreational Vehicle Attributes

Consumers of these layers should migrate their applications to the new Topology Attributes layer.

Deprecated attributes

The CurvatureHeadingAttribute, published by ADAS Attributes, is deprecated and will be removed from the schema by the end of Q4 2025.

The attribute is replaced by the following two new attributes:

• CurvatureAttribute

• HeadingAttribute

Removal of catalog history

In Q1 2026, HERE is planning to remove catalog versions older than 18 months, provided that this action will have no impact on customer applications. For questions, reach out to your HERE Account Executive or Technical Services point-of-contact.