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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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Chaowai (CN) : 3,225.029 meters
Latitude : 39.918121337890625;
Longitude : 116.43241882324219
Population : 0;
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Longitude : 116.43241882324219
Population : 0;
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西城区 (CN) : 3,246.691 meters
Latitude : 39.91066093592161;
Longitude : 116.35939075003593
Population : 1,179,000;
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Longitude : 116.35939075003593
Population : 1,179,000;
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ShiChaHai (CN) : 3,448.743 meters
Latitude : 39.9381103515625;
Longitude : 116.39070892333984
Population : 0;
elevation : 40 m
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Longitude : 116.39070892333984
Population : 0;
elevation : 40 m
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Jinrongjie (CN) : 3,543.257 meters
Latitude : 39.9122200012207;
Longitude : 116.35614776611328
Population : 0;
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Longitude : 116.35614776611328
Population : 0;
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Longtan (CN) : 3,648.424 meters
Latitude : 39.88370895385742;
Longitude : 116.42668151855469
Population : 0;
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Longitude : 116.42668151855469
Population : 0;
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DeShengMen Nei (CN) : 4,053.846 meters
Latitude : 39.941261291503906;
Longitude : 116.37928771972656
Population : 0;
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Longitude : 116.37928771972656
Population : 0;
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