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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?

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Google Places should do well. As far as I know, open developer beta has already been released (and since it's open I'm quite sure it's stable enough).

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  • Do you know much more about it? Can return localized names, eg: Europos Parlamentas for European Parliament? – Pentium10 May 23 '10 at 15:20
  • I'm afraid not, documentation does not mention any argument for localized result. Might try using http://maps.google.es/ instead, yet it most probably api just doesn't care. – Mikulas Dite May 23 '10 at 17:11
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GeoNames:

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

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  • Thanks. After I checked out, worth to know, that has very limited records for Europe and Eastern-Europe most specially for Hungary an Romania, which are my major target for this project. – Pentium10 May 23 '10 at 18:01