July 2025 Platform Release Notes

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

The Limited Plan will be officially retired on August 31, 2025. Please follow the instructions below and take action if you are still on the HERE Limited Plan.

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 in a nutshell:

• 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.

What happens 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 Maps API for JavaScript 3.1.65.0

HERE Maps API for JavaScript 3.1.65.0 introduces an important new feature to support Transportation and Logistics use cases. The new Vehicle Profiles feature lets you tailor the rendering of vehicle restrictions for specific vehicles. By specifying its characteristics, the map only displays those restrictions which apply to the defined profile.

The new functionality supplements existing features for this use case, like the general display of vehicle restrictions, a specific logistics style as well as the display possibilities for congestion and environmental zones.

The new Version 3.1.65.0 also introduces enhancements to the map style. The updated style shows country water borders, indications for truck drivers if deliveries are permitted in a restricted zone, and an enriched POI display.

HERE Map Content v2

New attributes

The ADAS Attributes layer now publishes the following 2 new attributes:

• CurvatureAttribute

• HeadingAttribute

Both attributes replace the deprecated attribute CurvatureHeadingAttribute, which will be removed from the schema at the end of Q4 2025. For more information, see the What’s in the works section.

Removal of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations layer

The Electric Vehicle Charging Stations layer (layer ID electric-vehicle-charging-stations) has been removed from the catalog.

HERE Network Positioning API 2.7.0

Positioning based on 5G cellular networks

We officially launched positioning based on 5G cellular network signals. This applies to mobile devices that are connected to native 5G Standalone (SA) cellular networks, also called NR or New Radio networks. See the Developer Guide for an example of positioning requests using 5G SA signals.

Note that positioning of mobile devices using 5G Non-Standalone (NSA) cellular networks is supported in HERE Network Positioning API via 4G/LTE signal measurements. This is possible because 5G NSA networks use the 4G control plane.

5G NSA networks provide higher data speeds compared to 4G, but note that native 5G SA networks provide very low latency and network slicing in addition to high data speed.

HERE Raster Tile API 3.0.60 and HERE Map Image API 3.0.40

• Added water country boundaries.

HERE Real Time Traffic

• Improved Offset handling for Incidents for Japan.

• Addressed Automatic Closure Verification instability and data quality issues caused due to faulty probe alarm logic.

• Removed invalid and blacklisted map links requests.

• Improved Coverage for following regions:

  • Automatic Roadworks Verification/Construction Data Enabled for UK.

  • Improved Incident coverage for incident 2.4 feed for Austria.

  • Enabled Congestion Incident Data for Serbia.

  • Enabled Incident feeds for Israel (E0435).

  • Enabled Rush hour predictions for all countries.

Removal of catalog

• HERE Real Time Traffic Incident Catalog Version 1 (RTTI V1; HRN: hrn:here:data::olp-here:olp-traffic-1) has been removed. Please use the existing HERE Real Time Traffic Incident Catalog Version 2 (RTTI V2; HRN: hrn:here:data::olp-here:here-traffic-incidents-v2) instead.

  RTTI V2 provides the same content as RTTI V1 with multi‑region support. For more information on RTTI V2 layers in the catalog, see the Fetch Incident Data section of the HERE THERE Real-Time Traffic Incident - User Guide.

HERE Style Editor 1.13.0

The new version 1.13.0 of HERE Style Editor provides a wealth of new customization features. These include:

• Customization of POI and city center icons

• Customization of Truck preferred roads overlay

• Semantic maps for reviewing map styling

• Option to switch base map style while keeping edits

• Customization options for Runway outlines and landuse outline offsets

• Various usability improvements.

POI Icon replacement for Restaurant category

Customization options for Truck preferred routes

HERE Tour Planning API

The API comes with the following improvements and new features:

• You can now obtain CO2 emission and fuel consumption statistics for the tour.

• You can now retrieve route polylines (in the flexible polyline format), representing paths between consecutive stops in the solution.

• You can now specify the total number of axles for a vehicle through the axleCount property, which helps to avoid restricted routes and optimize navigation.

• Use maxDrivingTime to set the maximum allowed driving duration per duty period or working day. This lets you ensure compliance with regulations related to driver hours and fatigue.

• Use the dutyRule to set the maximum time that drivers can spend on duty during the working period. This includes the time spent driving between consecutive stops, loading or unloading goods, or performing any other work-related activities. Additionally, the dutyRule lets you schedule the fixed off-duty break duration for time spent away from work-related activities, such as sleeping, resting, or engaging in personal activities.

• A new tieBreak hierarchical objective enables ties in a higher-level objective to be resolved by a lower-level objective. This new objective allows for more precise goal-setting and evaluation.

• The new recharges property enables you to define a list of up to 20 available EV recharge stations for the vehicle within a given shift.

• The new excessCosts property defines boundaries for distance, stop count, and other constraint types. If these limitations are breached, penalties will be incurred. This feature facilitates more cost-effective logistics tour plans that balance the need to complete tasks efficiently with the need to avoid excessive costs.

Traffic Analytics

Direct Map Downloads in SHP Format

We’ve made it easier to access your map data.

Starting July 8th, after receiving your requested data, you can download the corresponding map directly no need to visit external portals or manage credentials for HERE’s FlexNet page.The maps are provided in SHP file format and include the same attributes as before. They are organized by HERE Administrative Level 2 (Admin L2):

• If your request targets a specific Admin L2 area, you’ll receive the full Admin L2 boundary for that area.

• If your request covers an entire country, you’ll get a single download link containing all Admin L2 boundaries for that country.

This streamlined process saves time and ensures you always get the right version -fast and hassle-free.Traffic Analytics email - New link for map download highlighted. Netherlands request example. All Admin Level 2 aggregated.

Traffic Analytics email - New link for map download highlighted

Netherlands request example. All Admin Level 2 aggregated.

HERE SDKs

Upcoming change

As the Explore Edition is a subset of the Navigate Edition, we plan to merge the developer guides for both into a single developer guide.

Features such as HERE Positioning, Navigation, Indoor Maps, and offline capabilities will remain exclusive to Navigate users. Editions will be referenced to as "licenses". Your existing Explore and Navigate credentials will continue to work as before, and we will maintain support for both licenses through dedicated frameworks and API references. This change is planned for an upcoming release and will only affect the documentation.

Tracking Cloud

Deprecating old APIs

In preparation of a Simplified Tracking API, a number of older APIs that are no longer required are undergoing deprecation. Deprecated APIs include Aliases v2 API, Bulk jobs v4 API, C2C v4 API, Labels v4 API, Metadata v2 API, and Shipment plans v4 API.Refer to HERE Tracking API documentation for information on Tracking APIs that are still supported, or have been deprecated.

HERE SDK 4.23.0.0

The following updates are available for HERE SDK 4.23.0.0:

• Bug fixes and performance improvements

• Navigation: The DynamicRoutingEngine has been extended to use RoutingOptions for route calculation.

• Map view: Removed the beta label for MapPolyline.setRepresentaion() . The API is now considered to be stable. 

• Search: Added EVChargingPool.access that represents the accessibility level of the charging pool. Also available offline for Navigate users. 

• Search: Added EVAccessRestrictionReason that represents the restriction reason of an EVChargingPool. Added EVChargingPool.accessRestrictionReasons that contains the list of reasons for restriction, accessible by offline search when access is EVAccessType.restrictedAccess.

• Positioning: On Android, we added an altitude estimate with vertical accuracy into location estimates based on Wi-Fi signal observations.

• Documentation: Since the Explore Edition is a subset of the Navigate Edition, we plan to merge the developer guides for both into a single developer guide. Features such as HERE Positioning, Navigation, Indoor Maps, and offline capabilities will remain exclusive to Navigate users. Editions will be referenced to as "licenses". Your existing Explore and Navigate credentials will continue to work as before, and we will continue to maintain support for both licenses through dedicated frameworks and API references. This change is planned for an upcoming release and will only affect the documentation. 

• We have released a new version of the HERE SDK Reference Application. With version 1.14.0, we added support for HERE SDK 4.22.0.0, upgrade to Flutter 3.27.4 (previously 3.27.2) and Dart 3.6.2 (previously 3.6.1), along with other minor fixes and improvements.

HERE SDK 4.23.1.0

This is the first minor release of our 4.23 code line. Updates include:

• Bug fixes and performance improvements.

• Map style update: Enriched the POI display on the map by implementing new icons for various POI categories which previously used generic iconography. 

• OfflineSearchEngine : Improved searching for places along the route via GeoCorridor. The results are now more equally distributed along the entire route. Enable this feature with the new SearchOptions.distributedResults flag, which will use internally a parallel search algorithm. Note that this flag impacts only offline search.

• Search: Added PlaceCategory.sightsLandmarkAttraction to use instead of PlaceCategory.sightsLandmarkAttaction that contains a typo. Note that this is also supported for the OfflineSearchEngine (if available for your license). 

• Navigation: Added the following classes:

  • GeneralVehicleSpeedLimits.maxSpeedRainingInMetersPerSecond

  • GeneralVehicleSpeedLimits.maxSpeedSnowingInMetersPerSecond

  • GeneralVehicleSpeedLimits.maxSpeedNightInMetersPerSecond

  • GeneralVehicleSpeedLimits.minSpeedHighwaysInMetersPerSecond.

  • AdministrativeRules, which will be used when retrieving administrative rules for a state or a country.

  • AdministrativeRulesLoader, with the methods AdministrativeRulesLoader.getStateCodes for getting all the states in a country and AdministrativeRulesLoader.getAdministrativeRules for getting the administrative rules for a specific state or for the whole country.

• Map view: Improved support for transparent custom line layers to avoid darker colors when objects overlap. Added TranslucentMapLayerGroup class and MapLayerPriorityBuilder.inGroup() function to support placing custom line layers into a translucent layer group.
  
  Custom line layers within a translucent group are rendered in an offscreen translucent pass, preventing self-overlapping translucent geometry from being alpha blended. Note that this is a beta release of this feature.

• The minimum supported Flutter version for HERE SDK has been raised from version 3.27.4 to 3.29.3. The corresponding Dart version was raised from 3.6.2 to 3.7.2. The internally used intl plugin dependency was changed from version '0.19' to '>=0.19.0 <0.21.0'.

HERE SDK 4.23.2.0

The following updates are available for HERE SDK 4.23.2.0:

• Routing: Added ViolatedRestriction.Details.maxNumberOfTires , added VehicleSpecification.tiresCount to store maximum permitted number of tires. Note that this feature is also supported by the OfflineRoutingEngine, if available for your edition.

• Routing: Added AvoidanceOptions.zoneCategories , AvoidanceOptions.zoneIds and AvoidanceOptions.exceptZoneIds options for isoline calculation.

• Added TruckSpecifications.currentWeightInKilograms field to indicate the current weight of the vehicle.

• Navigation: Updated default colors for VisualNavigatorColors (in 0xRRGGBBAA format): for dayColors() , car route: 0x0D5ED9FF to 0x0D61DEFF , car route outline: 0x1257B8FF to 0x002693FF , car route progress outline: 0x8F9BAAFF to 0x929FB2FF , And for nightColors() , car route: 0x1A5CBDFF to 0x3168FFFF , car route outline: 0x083C8AFF to 0x5096FFFF , car route progress: 0xB9C5D4FF to 0x304866FF , car route progress outline: 0x8F9BAAFF to 0x677685FF .

• Navigation: Added the fields isTollStickerRequired , turnOnRedRegulations , parkingSideRegulations , isCleanAirStickerRequired , bloodAlcoholContentLimit , tollSystems , and preTripPlanning to AdministrativeRules . Also added the class BloodAlcoholContentLimit to retrieve information on acceptable blood alcohol limits, class PreTripPlanning to define required vehicle equipment before entering a country or state (e.g., warning triangle, first-aid kit, safety vest), and the class TollSystem to provide toll regulation details and applicable vehicle types.

• Positioning: Added support for positioning based on native 5G cellular networks. This applies to mobile devices that are connected to 5G Standalone (SA) cellular networks, also called NR or New Radio networks. Note that positioning based on 5G Non-Standalone (NSA) cellular networks has been supported already earlier.

• The latest supported Flutter version was raised from 3.29.3 to 3.32.5. The latest supported Dart version was updated accordingly from 3.7.2 to 3.8.1. The minimum supported Flutter version remains unchanged (Flutter 3.29.3 and Dart 3.7.2). Other versions may also work, but are not guaranteed to be supported.

HERE Usage Alerts

Usage Alerts in the Usage Management Tool - a powerful new feature designed to help customers monitor their usage more effectively.

With this feature, users can now set up personalised usage alerts directly through the
dashboard UI. With just a few simple configurations, they can receive timely
notifications when their usage reaches predefined thresholds - helping them stay in control of costs and avoid surprises. Features include:

• Self-service alert setup via the user interface.

• Real-time notifications to stay informed.

• Customised thresholds for transaction-based usage, location and data services.

• Support for Assets plans: Users can calculate included transactions from their monthly/annual commitments and set limits accordingly.

This feature is designed to help customers avoid unexpected charges at the end of the month by giving them real-time visibility into their usage. It offers flexibility by linking alerts directly to their subscriptions and App IDs, ensuring that important information is no longer buried in individual reports.
The alert setup process is quick and intuitive, requiring no technical expertise, and gives customers full control over their usage limits. They can proactively manage their
consumption or plan upgrades as needed, all while benefiting from greater transparency and a comprehensive history of alerts activity.

HERE Vector Tile API 2.3.48

New attributes and enhancements:

• Added the name:latin attribute for administrative places, which contains the corresponding Latin name, a Latin-based language name, or an appropriate transliteration.

• Added the area_rank attribute for administrative labels.

Added country water borders to the boundaries layer. 

What's in the works

HERE Map Attributes API v8

Starting December 2025, HERE Map Attributes (RME, WSE, GFE) API v8 will no longer support GET requests with HTTP request lines longer than 8000 characters. To ensure that your solution remains fully functional, use POST requests or limit the line length to 8000 characters or less. To learn more about the available endpoints and methods, see the API reference.

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 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.

HERE Maps API for JavaScript

Time based vehicle restriction display will complement the set of functionalities to support the transportation and logistics use case. The new feature will be introduced shortly.

HERE platform

Single-Sign-On (SSO)

To provide HERE customers with greater flexibility and integration with their authentication needs when using platform.here.com, HERE will offer Single-Sign-On (SSO) capability starting in September 2025.SSO allows HERE customers who want to extend their user authentication experience to include consistency and security with their own enterprise systems. SSO can help ensure that only users onboarded to a specific IdP are allowed access to platform.here.com. SSO can also drive authentication policies that allow users to have a seamless experience while still adhering to security policies.HERE will support SAML authentication with well-known Identity Providers (IdPs) such as Okta, Keycloak, Entra, and other IdPs. User roles can still be assigned with the HERE Platform, enabling Org Admins to control the exact level of user access and to implement the principle of least privilege to all their users. HERE will provide SSO as an additional feature of Premium and Premium Success support plans. Customers with these support plans will have the functionality available by default and can set up their SSO via the platform interface. Please contact your account manager with any additional questions you may have.