Quick Reference Guide

• VISITS: Best for sales teams, field representatives, inspections, or recurring service appointments where users need to visit multiple locations efficiently.
• PICKUPS: Designed for workflows where drivers collect products, materials, or inventory from multiple locations.
• DELIVERIES: Optimized for delivery workflows where products or services must be dropped off at customer locations.
• IMPORT CONFIGURATION: Allows users to reuse an existing route configuration from another dataset or workflow, helping teams standardize routing processes quickly.

Group Visits — Groups related stops together during route optimization to improve efficiency and maintain logical routing patterns.

• GROUP VISITS: Organize and route stops together based on a shared dataset value such as sales rep, county, territory, service region, customer type, or distribution zone.
• Required Visits: Ensures certain locations must be included in generated routes regardless of optimization constraints.
• Stop Durations: Defines how long drivers or representatives are expected to remain at each stop.
• Time Windows: Establishes allowable arrival windows for specific stops to support appointment scheduling, delivery commitments, or service requirements.

• USE VEHICLES FROM A LIBRARY DATASET: Pulls vehicle or driver information from an existing dataset stored in Mapline.
• MANUALLY ENTER VEHICLE ADDRESS: Allows you to manually define a starting address for route generation.
• SELECT VEHICLES FROM A LIBRARY MAP: Uses mapped vehicle locations from an existing Mapline map layer.

You can then select your source data, manually enter addresses if needed, and apply filters to narrow down vehicle selections.

ASSIGN VEHICLES TO SPECIFIC DESTINATIONS: Control which vehicles are allowed to service certain locations using advanced filtering logic. This is especially useful when drivers, service teams, or vehicles should only operate within specific regions, territories, or distance ranges.

Departure Time: Define when vehicles or drivers begin their routes. This helps Mapline optimize arrival estimates and total route timing more accurately.

Break Times: Schedule breaks during routes, including break times tied to specific addresses or locations. This helps maintain realistic schedules and supports compliance with operational requirements.

Mapline can also append existing dataset columns directly into your route outputs, making it easier to combine operational routing analytics with your own business data.

Stop Point Dataset Columns allow you to include information tied to each route stop, such as customer names, addresses, account IDs, order details, service categories, territories, or custom attributes already stored in your destination dataset. This helps teams keep route planning connected to the real-world data they use every day.

Vehicle Dataset Columns allow you to include operational vehicle information directly within route results, such as driver names, vehicle IDs, capacities, maintenance schedules, assigned regions, or other custom logistics data. Together, these output columns create a much richer routing dataset that can be filtered, analyzed, shared, or used in downstream workflows and reporting.

Different teams optimize routes for different reasons. Some want to complete as many stops as possible, while others focus on reducing travel time, prioritizing high-value visits, or balancing workloads more efficiently. These settings allow you to tell Mapline what matters most so routes are optimized around your real operational goals.

• MAXIMIZE STOPS AND MINIMIZE ROUTES: Prioritizes completing the highest number of stops using the fewest routes possible.
• MAXIMIZE STOPS AND MINIMIZE OVERALL TRIP TIME: Focuses on reducing total travel time while still maximizing completed visits.
• MAXIMIZE OVERALL VALUE OF ROUTES: Prioritizes high-value locations, customers, or deliveries during optimization.
• FOLLOW A CUSTOM PRIORITY ORDER AND MAXIMIZE STOPS: Uses a user-defined priority sequence when determining stop order and route optimization.

Not every route needs to end the same way. Some teams need drivers to return to a warehouse or office, while others want routes to finish at the final stop to reduce unnecessary travel time. These settings allow you to control how routes conclude so they better align with your operational workflows, scheduling needs, and efficiency goals.

• ROUND TRIP: Routes return vehicles to their original starting point.
• NO SPECIFIC ENDING POINT: Routes may end at the final optimized stop location.
• ENTER SINGLE ENDING ADDRESS: Routes conclude at a manually entered destination.
• SELECT MULTIPLE ENDING ADDRESSES: Allows users to define several possible route ending points.

Every operation has different routing requirements, and sometimes basic optimization settings aren’t enough. Optional route constraints give you more control over how routes are generated, helping you balance workloads, limit route length, manage driver schedules, and create routes that better match real-world operational limitations.

Select from the following:

• MAX ROUTES: Limits the total number of generated routes.
• MAX ROUTES PER VEHICLE: Restricts how many routes a vehicle may receive.
• MAX STOPS PER ROUTE: Sets a maximum number of stops allowed on each route.
• MIN STOPS PER ROUTE: Requires a minimum number of stops per route.
• MAX TRIP TIME PER ROUTE: Limits total trip duration.
• MIN TRIP TIME PER ROUTE: Requires routes to meet a minimum duration.
• MAX DRIVE TIME PER ROUTE: Restricts total driving time.
• MIN DRIVE TIME PER ROUTE: Establishes minimum driving time thresholds.
• MAX DRIVE DISTANCE PER ROUTE: Limits total mileage or distance traveled.
• MIN DRIVE DISTANCE PER ROUTE: Requires minimum route distance thresholds.

Once routes are created, Mapline’s Geospatial Engine processes the route configuration, adds the selected output values to your dataset, and generates the routes visually on the newly created route map.

Depending on dataset size and route complexity, processing may take a few minutes. Once complete, users can immediately begin analyzing and managing their routes inside Mapline.

Ways to Leverage Routes in Mapline

• Track driver efficiency and route performance using route analytics and output values
• Reduce mileage and windshield time through ongoing route optimization
• Visualize route coverage gaps and overlaps directly on interactive maps
• Share routes with teams in real time for dispatching, scheduling, and operational coordination