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We would like to know about data usage and retention for Routing data. We would like to use the data about mileage, duration and associated costs that we get from your routing api in a product for our clients, to allow them compare actual mileage, duration and costs from delivery runs on routes to the estimated mileage, duration and costs.
Are we able to persist the data we get from your API, combine it into web based reports and use it to generate PDF documents?
Does any of this require a special license? Would we need a license per client that uses that data?
An Azure service that provides geospatial APIs to add maps, spatial analytics, and mobility solutions to apps.
Hi Mark,
We do not allow the storage of route responses, but we do allow for the resulting calculation to be persisted. So the PDF report you generate at the time you make the call and do the calculation should be fine.
The restriction is in place so you don't recreate the service or use stored results to avoid making calls for "fresh" answers.
Sincerely,
IoTGirl
ok, it sounds promising. To be clear we would be persisting only part of the resposne - mileage and duration, and the presence of tolls if supplied. This is a once a month thing so it is not to avoid further calls. We would use the derived data in web reports as well as PDFs
Hi Mark,
You can only persist derived data, not the direct response data. However, if you are using a simple formula you can return to the base. As an example, say you are setting a route value based on miles driven at $5 per mile. You can store $5 x route distance but not route distance directly.
Sincerely,
IoTGirl
You may also find this project and draft blog post that it links to of interest: https://github.com/rbrundritt/AzureMapsRouteEtaService It caches route data temporarily to optimize estimate time of arrival calculations.