topic Find a place in ArcGIS API for Silverlight Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/find-a-place/m-p/184243#M4563 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Is there a way to find a place, similar to the Google Maps api.&nbsp; I Would like to have the users put something in like "flatirons mall" and then get a list of results.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:40:25 GMT BrianGustafson 2011-12-09T20:40:25Z Find a place https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/find-a-place/m-p/184243#M4563 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Is there a way to find a place, similar to the Google Maps api.&nbsp; I Would like to have the users put something in like "flatirons mall" and then get a list of results.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:40:25 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/find-a-place/m-p/184243#M4563 BrianGustafson 2011-12-09T20:40:25Z Re: Find a place https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/find-a-place/m-p/184244#M4564 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am also working on the similar requirement, please let me know if u have figured it out.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:21:02 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/find-a-place/m-p/184244#M4564 DeepikaJain 2011-12-12T08:21:02Z Re: Find a place https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/find-a-place/m-p/184245#M4565 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You need to use a Gazetteer service or a locator service such as this one : </SPAN><A href="http://tasks.arcgis.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/WorldLocator/GeocodeServer/findAddressCandidates">http://tasks.arcgis.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/WorldLocator/GeocodeServer/findAddressCandidates</A><BR /><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Not working with 'Flatirons mall' though. Would need a more specialized service.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:19:27 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/find-a-place/m-p/184245#M4565 DominiqueBroux 2011-12-13T08:19:27Z Re: Find a place https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/find-a-place/m-p/184246#M4566 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am using the bing geocode service and that works ok.&nbsp; it is not as good as the Google maps geocode service but I cannot get that to work with a not Google maps application.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:37:51 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/find-a-place/m-p/184246#M4566 BrianGustafson 2011-12-13T12:37:51Z Re: Find a place https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/find-a-place/m-p/184247#M4567 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hey,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I use the gnis from usgs (this is a point feature class for geographic names) and it works well.&nbsp; Just search on a name and it will return the geometry for the point.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:02:51 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-silverlight-questions/find-a-place/m-p/184247#M4567 ChrisBradberry 2011-12-14T16:02:51Z