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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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Le Touquet-Paris-Plage (FR) : 0.108 meters
Latitude : 50.50875375771148;
Longitude : 1.5988302395570553
Population : 4,227;
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Longitude : 1.5988302395570553
Population : 4,227;
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Cucq (FR) : 2,703.143 meters
Latitude : 50.486334234303065;
Longitude : 1.6136019481094337
Population : 5,059;
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Longitude : 1.6136019481094337
Population : 5,059;
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Le Blanc Pavé (FR) : 3,227.044 meters
Latitude : 50.52690124511719;
Longitude : 1.6344499588012695
Population : 0;
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Longitude : 1.6344499588012695
Population : 0;
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Étaples (FR) : 4,054.71 meters
Latitude : 50.523233751024186;
Longitude : 1.6514626872510612
Population : 10,912;
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Longitude : 1.6514626872510612
Population : 10,912;
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Villiers (FR) : 4,325.939 meters
Latitude : 50.48509000000001;
Longitude : 1.6473728
Population : 0;
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Longitude : 1.6473728
Population : 0;
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Saint-Josse (FR) : 5,527.001 meters
Latitude : 50.48114421407855;
Longitude : 1.6638018882198526
Population : 1,130;
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Longitude : 1.6638018882198526
Population : 1,130;
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Lefaux (FR) : 5,700.038 meters
Latitude : 50.54624039807785;
Longitude : 1.653832474760384
Population : 234;
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Longitude : 1.653832474760384
Population : 234;
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Fromessent (FR) : 5,965.014 meters
Latitude : 50.526191100000005;
Longitude : 1.6786169000000002
Population : 0;
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Longitude : 1.6786169000000002
Population : 0;
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Camiers (FR) : 6,239.751 meters
Latitude : 50.56419671049976;
Longitude : 1.6124667173143856
Population : 2,730;
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Longitude : 1.6124667173143856
Population : 2,730;
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