Please notice that PTV Group will be discontinuing PTV Maps version 2017 as of 1 January 2019 and PTV Mapserver versions 5.11 & 5.12 as of 1 April 2018.
Please also notice that traffic patterns based on TMC won’t be longer provided by the PTV maps and therefore PTV Group will be discontinuing these data as of 1 September 2018.
From these dates onwards, we will no longer provide updates or support for the versions listed in the detailed overview provided at the end of this blog. Please notice that for PTV Mapserver the discontinuation also includes detailed, extracted and transit maps as well as the corresponding data content, such as traffic patterns, truck attributes, POIs, toll scenarios, and ID mappings.
To assist our customers, PTV Group has already provided the following upgrade paths, where clients can login to update to the latest versions of:
PTV Group is committed to providing the highest level of quality and service to our customers. Based on the requests given by our clients, we constantly enhance our software and keep integrating new and improved functions and contents. This is why we strongly advise our customers to partake in our maintenance contract, as it integrates extended functions and ensures their systems always remain up-to-date – a basic prerequisite for their day-to-day operations.
To meet the growing requirements, PTV Group, like other software providers, needs to limit the number of software versions available. This way, we can always make sure that our resources stay focused on further improving PTV Maps and PTV Mapserver, as the current software solutions create the perfect conditions for our customers’ business applications to excel.
At a glance: Discontinuation notice for PTV Maps version 2017 effective from 1 January 2019:
| PTV Maps | Version | Map & Data Provider |
| PTV Europe City Map Premium | 2017.1H, 2017.2H
2017.1T, 2017.2T |
Here, AND
TomTom |
| PTV North America City Map | 2017 | Here |
| PTV South America City Map | 2017 | Here |
| PTV Australia City Map | 2017 | Here |
| PTV World Map | 2017 | AND |
| PTV World City Map | 2017.1T & 2017.2T | TomTom |
| PTV Africa City Map | 2017 | TomTom |
| PTV South Asia City Map | 2017 | TomTom |
| PTV Arabia City Map | 2017 | Here |
| PTV Maghreb City Map | 2017 | TomTom |
| PTV India City Map | 2017 | Here |
At a glance: Discontinuation notice for PTV Mapserver versions 5.11 & 5.12 effective from 1 April 2019:
| PTV Mapserver | Version | Operating System |
| PTV Mapserver | 5.11 – 5.12 | Windows (x86) |
At a glance: Discontinuation notice for Traffic Patterns (TMC-based) effective from 1 September 2018:
| PTV Data | Basis | Discontinuation |
| Traffic Patterns | TMC | Complete (all versions). Replaced by toll scenarios (segment-based tolls) |
