Routing service

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Purpose

TomTom Routing is a suite of web services designed for developers to use our latest, scalable routing engine.

  • Independent tests have established that the TomTom routing engine is the best in the industry.
  • Our routing engine uses IQ Routes™ and TomTom Traffic™.

Routing web services

Routing consists of the following web services:

Calculate Route

This calculates a route between an origin and a destination, passing through waypoints (if specified). Additional routing parameters like traffic, avoidance conditions, departure/arrival time, etc. can be taken into account.

Calculate Route

Guidance instructions

This document provides fundamental guidance instructions that are returned as part of the response of the Calculate Route service. Please be aware that this document does not specify the complete request or response format.

Guidance instructions

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