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Place Finder Web Service

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  1. [ESRI software] A SOAP ArcWeb service that offers "find a place" functionality for Internet applications. Users can use the Place Finder Web Service to input a place-name and receive a ranked candidate list of place-names and associated coordinates. The Place Finder Web Service recognizes more than three million place-names, including geographic regions (such as continents, states, cities), bodies of water, and major points of interest.

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