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What are the best APIs for creating location-based Wikipedia mashups?

25th October 2010

My answer to What are the best APIs for creating location-based Wikipedia mashups? on Quora

GeoNames has a fantastic API for finding Wikipedia articles near a specific latitude/longitude pair:

http://www.geonames.org/export/w...

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