retrieving an asset by lat&long

[SimchaGershon]

Hi all
I have a problem, I'm building an application where I get the logtitude & latitude of a place by GPS, send it to an Esri GIS database & need to retrieve the asset/s that are in this point (An urban map of assets). I was told by the IT people responsible for the GIS in the organization I'm working with, that such a thing is impossible, I can't retrieve an asset by the Long&Lat.
From my exprience in It systems, I can't see the difficulty & I believe that's possible.
Does any body knows how to do it, I would appreciate a definite answer (either yes or no), & if yes how to do it, I'm total ignorant with the GIS stuff.
Thank you ve much
my e-mail is simchag@gmail.com

[manishsharma]

Yes it is possible, GIS data is spatial data which is having the information of Geographic corordinate system and project coordinate system.

Lat/Long always gives the x,y in GCS. So using arc objects you can search the assets intersecting the dummy point created using the lat/long, actually there are multiple ways to handle this you can use the buffere feature also

I am not sure why your GIs expert said no to this, ask him more details why it is not possible.

Cheers
-Mani

[SimchaGershon]

Thank you Mani