EGeoNameService is a Yii PHP library for accessing the GeoNames API. The library was developed with Yii 1.1.7 and is offered under the New BSD License.
With 25 million business listings over nine countries, open data company Factual has taken a first step toward creating a place database to which anyone can contribute. With location-based applications now more popular than ever, the data is extremely valuable to developers. Factual is providing it via its API, currently for free.
The US government isn't just opening its data, it's now creating mashups. The Department of State is tracking Secratary Hillary Clinton's world travel using the Google Maps API.
