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Get list of surrounding buildings based on coordinates from open database on Web

I would like to get a list of well-known buildings(museums, castles etc..) within X meters radius of the current coordinate. I would like to query them in PHP.

Do you know any such database that can be queried?

Solution

  • GeoNames:

    The GeoNames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eight million placenames that are available for download free of charge.