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The GEOLOC webservice is totally FREE and allow to find a place or POI and the distance from a GPS coordinate via a REST webservice. Gisgraphy also offers Premium hosted services and consulting.
It uses (free) data from Geonames that are imported into a local database.
You can see an example of use bellow. You can find documentation on how to use the XML API of the webservice and see how to download and install Gisgraphy.
You can use this interface to call the webservice and see the output.
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Baizhifang (CN) : 4,750.249 meters
Latitude : 39.882869720458984;
Longitude : 116.35173797607422
Population : 0;
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Longitude : 116.35173797607422
Population : 0;
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Xizhimen (CN) : 5,112.681 meters
Latitude : 39.94047927856445;
Longitude : 116.35545349121094
Population : 0;
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Longitude : 116.35545349121094
Population : 0;
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Huichengmen (CN) : 5,971.802 meters
Latitude : 39.90504837036133;
Longitude : 116.3272933959961
Population : 0;
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Longitude : 116.3272933959961
Population : 0;
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