Yandex Maps API

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2025

Optimizing the movement of couriers

API Yandex Maps has added an update to mapping navigation and solutions that will help optimize movement couriers on foot and on. Yandex car announced this on February 13, 2025. Now companies can add to their applications employees the ability to build routes inside buildings, take into account stairs and ramps, and exclude certain types of roads. These features are especially useful for supermarkets,,, online stores services and Marketplaces logistic anyone who uses the last mile delivery or is engaged. cargo transportation

Updates are available in two mobile application products: MapKit SDK for adding interactive maps and NaviKit SDK for integrating custom navigation scenarios into the company's own application. Now MapKit SDK has floor plans for large shopping centers, airports and railway stations in Russia. At the same time, navigation inside buildings was added in Moscow and St. Petersburg: you can build walking routes both between objects indoors and from anywhere in the city. This will help couriers find the desired entrance, floor or transition faster, which will facilitate their work and speed up delivery. And companies will be able to clearly show the location of ATMs, vending machines, charging machines and other objects on the map in their client applications.

The MapKit SDK also began to take into account stairs, ramps, escalators, elevators and steep climbs, which will avoid difficult and inconvenient sections of roads when building routes. Companies can also adapt routes taking into account weather conditions, which is especially important for regions with extreme climates. For example, in winter, you can reduce the time of couriers in the cold by paving their way through heated stops. This will help reduce risks to employees and improve delivery efficiency.

API Yandex Maps has expanded the list of roads that can be excluded from the route of couriers traveling by car. In addition to bypassing toll roads, non-paved or poorly covered roads, there was a setting for excluding highways, level crossings, tunnels, ferry crossings and fords. Thanks to this, companies can avoid inconvenient routes, reduce risks for employees and customize transportation for business tasks.

In addition, the products added the ability to download pre-built routes from other services and follow them unchanged, which is relevant for companies with their own routing schemes.

API Yandex Maps continue to develop navigation capabilities, carefully listening to the needs of Russian companies. We develop our own solutions, as well as adapt the best user scenarios of Yandex Maps to the needs of the business, expanding their functionality and flexibility. Our navigation tools allow you to solve various tasks, including optimizing the delivery of the last mile and building accurate routes both around the city and inside buildings. And the possibilities of customizing routes save time and increase comfort and safety for couriers, making delivery more efficient and reliable, - commented Anton Tokbulatov, project manager of the Yandex Kart API.

Optimized version of the Geocoder based on AI

API Yandex.Maps presented Kazakhstan in an updated version of Geocoder on the base artificial intelligence and. algorithms machine learning This was Yandex announced on January 29, 2025. The solution now converts addresses to coordinates even more effectively and understands user queries, even if they contain errors or lack. With the information help of Geocoder on AI, local, international the Russian and companies that operate in the country will be able to process large amounts of address data faster and determine locations on the map without further clarification.

The geocoder better adjusts to local features of address search and is more resistant to unstructured queries with typos, abbreviations or folk names. And thanks to the training of neural networks using real examples of data entry, the tool also understands requests containing a combination of languages, including Kazakh in Cyrillic, Kazakh in Latin, Russian and English.

The updated product will be useful not only to local, but also to Russian enterprises represented in Kazakhstan. AI-based Geocoder e-commerce companies will help improve customer service by correctly finding the addresses they enter when placing orders. And logistics companies will be able to more accurately assess the timing and cost of delivery, increasing the speed of order processing and transparency for users.

It is important for us to support customers not only in Russia, but also abroad. Therefore, we strive to ensure the high quality of our geo-solutions in all regions of presence. Thanks to the introduction of machine learning technologies, we were able to quickly develop a tool that made searching at addresses in Kazakhstan as effective as in Russia. This opens up opportunities for business development in the country: for both local and Russian companies operating in Kazakhstan, - said Roman Shchapov, director of business development at Yandex Maps API in Russia and Central Asia.

2024: Adding a route-building feature on bikes and electric scooters

API Yandex.Maps In expanded the possibilities of navigation products for business, adding features for convenient and efficient movement couriers and drivers around the city. Updates will be useful to companies in the field,, retail ekoma food tech and. They logistics will improve operational efficiency, simplify the work of employees and improve client service. This was Yandex announced on November 8, 2024.

Now the Yandex Kart API solutions have a function of building routes not only on foot, by public transport or by car, but also on bicycles and electric scooters. Calculating the path in the products Distance Matrix and Obtaining route details in this release takes into account bike paths and specially allocated lanes, so that companies can build optimal and safe routes on micromobile transport, delivering orders faster in conditions of dense urban traffic.

The tool for creating your own navigation application for business tasks - NaviKit SDK - has the ability to automatically build optimal routes, taking into account stops for refueling or charging cars. Thanks to this, drivers of cars, trucks and electric vehicles will be able to save travel time by understanding in advance when to call at a gas station or charging station. The NaviKit SDK analyzes many factors: the distance for which the current charge or fuel volume is enough, the maximum range, the type of connector, the speed of movement - and dynamically adjusts the route when any parameters change.

Also, for the convenience of couriers and drivers of passenger and freight vehicles, the Yandex Maps API added highly detailed road maps and three-dimensional models of iconic objects of the country to interactive tools for mobile applications - MapKit SDK and NaviKit SDK. Now the maps display lanes, acceleration and braking zones, safety islands and parking, as well as 3D 3D 3D images of buildings. Updates help you better navigate the area without being distracted by third-party cards and services, which positively affects the delivery speed of the order.

The current update of Yandex Kart API products has been adapted to the current needs of companies in Russia, - said Alexander Tarmolov, head of the Yandex Kart API development. - From optimizing the routes of couriers on bikes and scooters to finely scheduling stops for refueling or charging: these improvements make navigation more flexible and accurate, helping companies improve logistics efficiency and improve customer service.

2023

Add Map Style Editor

API Yandex Maps The Map Style Editor is a free tool for customizing interactive maps that will be useful for entrepreneurs, developers and web designers of sites and applications. This was Yandex announced on December 18, 2023.

Now you don't need to write code manually and spend time decorating the card in the company's corporate style - the user-friendly interface of the Map Style Editor will help you cope with the task easily and quickly. In the Editor, you can select the desired map style, and then use the sliders to adjust the detail of the landscape, roads, buildings, labels and other elements, removing unnecessary ones if necessary. In total, three styles of maps are presented: universal, gray and monochrome. Each of them is available in day and night topics. The monochrome style allows you to choose the desired hue of the design according to the HEX spectrum of colors.

The resulting design can be exported in a JSON file format to be integrated into the site, transferred to colleagues, or finalized later, if necessary. The Map Style Editor is compatible with the JS API 3.0 and MapKit SDK software libraries, so you can add a stylized map to both a website or a separate web page, as well as applications on iOS and Android.

It is important for us to create a comfortable experience for customers to interact with Yandex Maps API products at all stages. Therefore, we have developed the Style Editor, with which it is as easy to adapt the map without losing functionality as to change the wallpaper on the computer desktop. This will allow the business to solve problems more efficiently. For example, by displaying its points of issue on the map, the company can also remove unnecessary elements from it - other objects, small roads, signatures, and so on. This will help those who order delivery to focus on the most important and faster find a convenient point of issue, - commented Anton Tokbulatov, project manager of the Yandex Kart API.

Launch of geotechnology for business

Yandex Kazakhstan December 13, 2023 launched a line of cartographic, geolocation navigation and business products under the API Yandex Maps brand. They will be relevant for online stores, retail networks, express services, logistic companies,, banks production enterprises - and everyone who uses maps, plans routes and organizes the transportation of goods.

The Yandex Maps API line presents three main categories of solutions that underlie the user services Yandex.Maps"" and Yandex.Navigator"": API for integrating maps into sites and applications, API for geocoding and locating, and API for calculating routes and navigation.

We create products that optimize the costs of our customers and improve the operational efficiency of their businesses. With the help of Yandex Kart API solutions, entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan will have the opportunity to improve the quality of logistics and client service by automating processes and reducing the burden on logicians, managers and ordering specialists, - commented Asylkhan Baimaganbetov, Director of API Development Yandex Kart in Kazakhstan.

The first category of Yandex Maps API solutions presents software libraries for placing interactive maps on the site - JS API 3.0 - and in the application - MapKit SDK. Companies use them to show the location of their stores and delivery points, designate service areas, and as a basis for building courier routes.

The second category of products are Geocoder, Geosaggest and Organization Search. The geocoder translates coordinates into addresses and vice versa. It is used by logicians, for example, to calculate the cost of delivery to different areas or to show the client on the map his location and address where the delivery is ordered. Searching organizations helps you find the desired object by name, address and other parameters, and Geosagest helps you enter addresses quickly and without errors using prompts.

The third category consists of products related to navigation and routing. The distance matrix calculates the length and duration of routes between different combinations of departure and destination. Obtaining route details builds a route between points for cars, public transport and pedestrians. Both products take into account traffic jams, weather forecast for a given time, transplants, stairs and other details. The locator also determines the location of devices without GPS - via Wi-Fi, IP and cell towers, allowing them not to lose them even in tunnels or parking lots. In turn, the NaviKit SDK is a set of tools for developing your own navigator on iOS or Android. With the NaviKit SDK, you can tailor standard driver scenarios to meet your business needs. For example, take into account the dimensions and tonnage of cars, establish rules for the safe transportation of goods, limiting the speed of employees, and set certain routes.

Tariffs for the Yandex Maps API are presented in tenge and are formed based on the number of requests per day. You can pay for licenses monthly or immediately for a year in advance - at a more favorable price. And if certain conditions are met, you can use the API for free.