Place Finder Web Service offers "find a place" functionality for your Internet applications. Use this Web service to input a place name and receive a ranked candidate list of place names and associated coordinates. Place Finder Web Service recognizes more than three million place names including geographic regions (such as continents, states, cities), natural features, and major landmarks and points of interest.
Place Finder Web Service allows you to perform the following functions:
http://www.arcwebservices.com/services/v2006/PlaceFinder.wsdl
https://www.arcwebservices.com/services/v2006/PlaceFinder.wsdl
NOTE: HTTPS is available if you need added security to call ArcWeb services. The Authentication Web Service and other ArcWeb services must be accessed with the same IP address for the authentication token to be valid.
To see Place Finder Web Service in action, interact with a live sample of a Place Finder client. See Code sample downloads overview for information on creating clients for ArcWeb services, including downloadable code for ColdFusion MX, JavaServer Pages (JSP) with Glue and Axis, and C# ASP.NET, and VB ASP.NET.
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