Places

High-quality global places and points of interest data

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Provide high-quality places and POI data to users

Gain access to over 1,000 categories of points of interest (POI) data. High-quality data that is regularly updated gives you more time to create valuable applications. Consume places data as a service directly or use it in the client APIs or SDKs of your choice. With its global coverage, the Places service is an essential tool for all developers.

Benefits of the Places service

  • Stay on budget with competitive pricing

    We offer transparent and flexible pay-as-you-go pricing to accommodate your project scope and customer requirements.

  • Maximize productivity

    With high-quality global and ready-to-use POI data, you'll be able to focus your resources and efforts on developing valuable and impactful applications. By having regularly updated global data with rich attribution, less time will be spent sourcing, licensing, and preparing data.

  • Get on-demand access to places data

    Access POI data from over 1,000 categories that encompass a variety of location and attribute-based criteria, describing features in Earth’s built and natural environments, including retail locations, public facilities, and features in the natural landscape.

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Find places near a location

A nearby search finds places within a given radius of a location. The location typically represents the geolocation of a device or a selected point on a map.

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Screenshot of a city street map with fork and knife icons representing points of interest (POI) related to dining establishments in an application.

Find places within a bounding box

Find and display places within a current map extent. Filter places using categories and/or text. Get place attributes including name, categories, place ID, and location. Find the place ID of places so you can request additional attributes.

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Get detailed information about places

Quickly return important attributes for a place and gain insight to compare places. Find an address and important location information and get a telephone number, email address, website information, or user and cost ratings. 

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Screenshot of a city street map with person sleeping on a bed icons representing points of interest (POI) related to restaurants in an application.

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Create your account and take advantage of our free tier to access all the features and services of ArcGIS Location Platform. Then, pay only for what you consume with our pay-as-you-go model.

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