The Place Finder Sample Web Service may be used freely in low-volume, noncommercial Internet applications. You may not resell this service as is or as part of a custom application. Use Place Finder Web Service for high-volume (i.e., more than 5,000 requests a day) or commercial use.
If you input placeName="" (empty string) and an envelope < 0.5 degrees (in projection "4326") in both directions, then Place Finder Sample Web Service returns all locations within that bounding box. The default value for the parameter count is 20.
Strings separated by commas after the first string are used to help narrow the search in other fields of the database. Below are three scenarios for a Place Finder search:
Boise
Boise, Idaho
Boise, Idaho, US
Each additional substring further restricts the search. If one of the substrings is not listed with the main search term in the database, the request does not return a match.
Place Finder Sample supports English and has limited support for European languages.
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