{"id":645672,"date":"2024-02-08T16:51:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T00:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcuser&p=645672"},"modified":"2024-02-08T16:51:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T00:51:30","slug":"new-arcgis-platform-places-service-brings-places-data-into-your-apps","status":"publish","type":"arcuser","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/new-arcgis-platform-places-service-brings-places-data-into-your-apps","title":{"rendered":"New ArcGIS Platform Places Service Brings Places Data into Your Apps"},"author":1031,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[473442,25002,485872],"tags":[238221,23492,281,488112],"arcuser_issues":[487872],"class_list":["post-645672","arcuser","type-arcuser","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arcgis-platform","category-developers-corner","category-developers","tag-arcgis-developer","tag-geodev","tag-location-intelligence","tag-poi","arcuser_issues-winter-2024"],"acf":{"short_description":" Places data can be a valuable source of location-based context for users in applications that support mapping, analysis, and decision-making. ","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":645682,"file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"blockquote","content":"Places service is a new ArcGIS Platform capability that provides developers with a ready-to-use option for incorporating richly attributed global points of interest (POI) data into their custom applications and solutions."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Places service provides regularly updated data that describes more than 1,000 types of places and has global coverage. Places service supports applications for users across industries and has flexible query capabilities and attractive pricing. Clear documentation and samples will help you get started quickly.\r\n

Places Data and Its Applications<\/h3>\r\nPOI are a type of places data that describes specific point-based locations on a map. Places data can be a valuable source of location-based context for users in applications that support mapping, analysis, and decision-making.\r\n\r\nFor mapping and local searches, Places service can help your users locate and understand what\u2019s nearby. For example, users of consumer travel apps may want information on restaurants, parks, and other amenities near lodging options.\r\n\r\nIn apps using market analytics, Places service can describe potential customers, competitors, suppliers, and distributors for retail site selection solutions.\r\n\r\nIn data science apps, Places data can provide context for modeling and analysis workflows. Places data can be used in analytic modeling and artificial intelligence (AI) applications along with other context to describe, explain, predict, or even make recommendations based on the models\/inferences. For example, in property insurance underwriting, this information could be used to predict future claims based on previous claims history and proximity to certain types of places.\r\n\r\nArcGIS Platform Places service supports coverage for more than 170 countries and regions, so you can create applications for areas of interest around the world. The service currently supports more than 1,000 categories of places. While other POI offerings may focus only on commercial or retail places, Places also supports public places such as courthouses and transportation hubs, and places in the natural landscape such as mountains and lakes.\r\n\r\n "},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":647032,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"With a hierarchical category system, you have flexibility on how you target your searches\u2014from general categories (e.g., all \u201cDining and Drinking\u201d places) to detailed and specific categories (e.g., \u201cSzechuan Restaurants\u201d). Each place can be associated with more than one category, which can be very useful when working with collocated businesses, such as coffee shops within supermarkets or public restaurants in hotels.\r\n\r\nThese valuable characteristics represent additional business value because they contribute to the flexibility of the service to address a wider variety of your customers\u2019 needs and opportunities. To see what categories are supported, check out the online Places category finder<\/a>.\r\n\r\n "},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":647042,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Data Sources<\/h3>\r\nArcGIS Platform Places is a service primarily based on supplier data from Esri partner Foursquare. This data is derived from various sources including more than 14 billion monthly check-ins from Foursquare\u2019s consumer-facing apps, SDK partners, feedback from businesses, web crawls, and other third-party data sources.\r\n\r\nDedicated Esri data engineering and testing teams handle data intake, quality assurance (QA), production, and releases so you can focus more of your valuable time and resources on creating impactful applications rather than worrying about sourcing, licensing, processing, and hosting data. Esri currently supports quarterly global data updates and is ramping up to support more frequent releases.\r\n\r\n "},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":647052,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Querying Places Service<\/h3>\r\nPlaces service supports simple and flexible query options for searching for and getting details about places. The first search option, near-point endpoint, queries places within a ring-based search area around a point location on a map. You can also include a ring radius, a list of place categories, and search text as optional filtering criteria.\r\n\r\nThe second search option, within-extent endpoint, queries places within a rectangular search extent. For this search option, you can include a list of place categories and search text as optional filtering criteria.\r\n\r\nAny records matching your query criteria\u2014using either search option and up to 20 records and their standard fields\u2014can be returned with each request. You will be metered for a single search transaction.\r\n\r\nYour users can easily obtain additional information about a place, beyond the information provided by search responses using the Esri Place ID (PlaceId). Each returned record includes a persistent identifier\u2014PlaceId\u2014that can be submitted, along with the list of desired fields (requestedFields), to the places endpoint to obtain additional place details, if they are available. Additional information can include:\r\n