Place Finder Sample Web Service overview

The Place Finder Sample Web Service is a free sample of the Place Finder Web Service. This sample demonstrates the "find a place" functionality available in Place Finder Web Service and is provided only to sample ArcWeb Services.

The Place Finder Sample Web Service, like the Place Finder Web Service, provides access to geographic place name data from several sources including the National Gepspatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and ESRI. This sample ArcWeb Service recognizes more than three million place names including geographic regions (such as continents, states, cities), bodies of water, and major points of interest.

The Place Finder Sample Web Service includes the following capabilities:

Note on usage: You can use the Place Finder Sample Web Service freely in low-volume, noncommercial Internet applications. You may not resell this service as is or as part of a custom application. You must use Place Finder Web Service for high-volume (over 5,000 requests a day) or commercial use.

WSDL Location

http://arcweb.esri.com/services/v2/PlaceFinderSample.wsdl

Live sample client

Interact with a live sample of a Place Finder Web Service client. For information on creating clients for ArcWeb Services, including downloadable code for JavaServer Pages (JSP) with Glue, C# ASP.NET, and VB ASP.NET,  see Introducing client samples.

See also

Place Finder Sample methods