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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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Maromiandra (MG) : 8,814.408 meters
Latitude : -22.7166690826416;
Longitude : 45.650001525878906
Population : 0;
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Longitude : 45.650001525878906
Population : 0;
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Anjaha (MG) : 9,265.903 meters
Latitude : -22.75;
Longitude : 45.58332824707031
Population : 0;
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Longitude : 45.58332824707031
Population : 0;
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Andranomavo (MG) : 9,878.188 meters
Latitude : -22.583330154418945;
Longitude : 45.54999923706055
Population : 0;
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Longitude : 45.54999923706055
Population : 0;
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