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Geonames get places close by

i was wondering how use the Geonames web service to return all places close to a certain lat long combination. The example of what i would like to do is here. See all the towns listed at the bottom in the table

Solution

  • On that page:

    http://www.geonames.org/export/ws-overview.html

    You find all web services available.

    Service No.9 findNearby is a good candidate for your task.

    In that "findNearby" Service you pass in:
    Parameters : lat,lng, featureClass,featureCode, radius: radius in km (optional), maxRows : max For featureClass and Code you have to read a bit the docu.