Here's another addition to the Community Showcase, one of the destinations on the Explorer Resource Center. This task is from Michael Waltuch of the Explorer Development Team, who also authored the Find GNIS task that we recently blogged about.

Find Nearby locates feature types you select that are within a specified radius of a place on the map. The task queries a subset of the features found in the large, international database maintained at GeoNames.org.

Here we've used the Find Address task to locate our favorite spot: 380 New York Street, Redlands CA. By right-clicking the result we can use Send To to use it as the input location for Find Nearby.

Now with the address as our input location, we can search for hotels within 10 miles of ESRI.

And here's our results: