Places Data

Find the points of interest and places that matter most to you

Key to location analysis, Esri's Places Data portfolio provides distinct geographic references, including points of interest (POI), building footprints, boundaries, and parcels. This data can help you understand what attracts people to a location. Add Places Data to your GIS analysis, or confidently build it into your location services applications.

Reveal hidden patterns

See beyond a point on a map with Esri’s Places Data portfolio. Take a deeper look at the predominant characteristics of a location to discover more information about the sites your target market frequents. From points of interest (POI) to building footprints, boundaries, and parcels, Places Data can help you discover unique characteristics of any geography.

Enrich Places

Add value to the places that interest you by adding more attributes and geographic context. Leverage the GeoEnrichment Service to enrich Places and better understand the people that frequent specific locations. Derive powerful information for situational awareness and decision support by utilizing demographics, environment, movement, and business data.

Discover the Places Data portfolio

Support your location-based applications and GIS with ready-to-use Places Data available in ArcGIS Marketplace including POI, boundaries, parcels, and building footprints.

Points of interest

POI display locations and attribute information for many places including businesses, institutions, landmarks, and natural features where people spend their money and time.

Boundaries

Boundaries define areas for data representation and describe well-known administrative divisions such as postal codes. They are often used for visualizing statistical data.

Parcels and building footprints

Parcels include information such as map-based boundaries, property ownership, land use, and zoning. Building footprints describe the outline of structures often seen on a map.

Why use Places Data?

Enhance your analysis with Places Data to better understand how the physical and social worlds interact.

Search

Find places by name or category through an interactive search.

Proximity

Create a list of nearby places based on location and type, including customers and prospects, competitors, distribution sites, and facilities for visualization and analysis.

Directions

Inform your route directions with landmarks to assist in navigation and find other relevant places along your routes.

Data sources

Interested in contributing Places Data?

In addition to working with our provider network, Esri also works with communities who wish to contribute data or services that add detail and context to the local maps and apps that serve their citizens. From POI to building footprints, basemap layers, and high- resolution imagery, community contributed data makes a difference. Feedback can also be contributed to improve the quality of our location data. Begin contributing today and learn why thousands of communities participate in Esri’s Community Maps Program.

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