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The last one is directly GeoNames information. GeoNames is a geographical database covers all countries and contains over eight million placenames that are available for download free of charge and provides web services to query this database. In the demo you can discover some information provides by GeoNames like cities, village, lake, parks, hotels wich you can find around you. | The last one is directly GeoNames information. GeoNames is a geographical database covers all countries and contains over eight million placenames that are available for download free of charge and provides web services to query this database. In the demo you can discover some information provides by GeoNames like cities, village, lake, parks, hotels wich you can find around you. | ||
All the map and layer mechanism is powered by OpenLayers, a free Javascript library constructs to put a dynamic map in any web page. | |||
That's a kind of ''data mashup'' from free tools and free data. | That's a kind of ''data mashup'' from free tools and free data. | ||