Geography information

Question

Hi,

I have an application which uses geography informations. I don't want to implement this feature because I think I could find a free services which provides needed informations to me.

Anybody can help me which service I could use?

(Geography information means country, county, town data.)

Answer 1

Try this:Google Maps API

The "Geocode" feature allows you to pass it any Address and it will figure out the Latitude/Longitude for you! Then you can later use the Lat/Long to generate a Map with a Marker on that point.

Answer 2

Thanks Nick your annswer... I know Google Maps API and I use in my app to show a location in a map.

But I need a service which provides the following data:

I have a textbox and a user start to type a name of town in it for instance "Bud" and then the autocomplete control of textbox calls the service and service gives back a list of results like "Budapest, Hungary' "Budaun, India", "Buduran, Indonesia", etc. As this works on Facebook when you want to filter a results of matches.

So I need a features like this...

Answer 3

So I think I didn't define my question properly.

I think about a thing like this:

http://www.geobytes.com/FreeServices.htm