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Given a latitude and longitude, how do i get the localitites around, saying that i mean, say i am in can i get a dataset having names of major locations in neighbourhood, or some tourist spot near it?
say i am in paris and have the lat and long { lat : 48.8565, lng : 2.3509 }, // paris
could get some json/xml with stuffs like {“Eiffel Tower”, “Arsenal”} etc.
I’m not up on non-USA sources of geo data, but the USGS (United States Geological Survey) publishes an official gazetter of place names including latitude and longitude of the primary point (for a city, typically city hall or similar) of that place.
http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/download_data.htm
I successfully used this data in the past by loading it into PostgreSQL and using it’s geospatial query capability.