Place finding

Places, also known as points of interest (POIs), are businesses and geographic locations that you can discover around the world. To find places you use the places service. The service API allows you to search for places near a location or within a bounding box. You can also get valuable place details such as name, category, street address, marketing district, contact information, website, social links, hours of operation, price ratings, and user ratings. This topic covers how to use the places service to build place finding applications.

To get started, go to Topics.

Search for places near Redlands, California and get detailed place information

Topics

How to build a place finding app

Learn the steps required to build apps with the places service.

Nearby search

Find places within a distance from a location.

Bounding box search

Find places within an extent.

Get place details

Get attributes for places such as address, description, user ratings, opening hours, and social links.

Find place categories

Find categories and categories details used to classify types of places.

Place icons

Explore the places icons reference.

API support

Category searchNearby searchBounding box searchPlace details
ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript1
ArcGIS Maps SDK for .NET
ArcGIS Maps SDK for Kotlin
ArcGIS Maps SDK for Swift
ArcGIS Maps SDK for Java
ArcGIS Maps SDK for Qt
ArcGIS API for Python
ArcGIS REST JS
Esri Leaflet1111
MapLibre GL JS1111
OpenLayers1111
CesiumJS1111
Full supportPartial supportNo support
  • 1. Access via ArcGIS REST JS.

Tutorials

Find nearby places and details

Find points of interest near a location and get detailed information about them.


Find places in a bounding box

Perform a text-based search to find places within a bounding box.


Services

Tools

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