main page: http://www.geonames.org/ the api overview: http://www.geonames.org/export/ws-overview.html api templte: http://api.geonames.org/method?params=query&username=yourname the jeoquery.js file for jquery using http://tompi.github.io/jeoquery/jeoquery.js var methods = { astergdem: {params: ['lat', 'lng'] }, children: {params: ['geonameId', 'maxRows'] }, cities: {params: ['north', 'south', 'east', 'west', 'lang'] }, countryCode: {params: ['lat', 'lng', 'type', 'lang', 'radius'] }, countryInfo: {params: ['country', 'lang'] }, countrySubdivision: {params: ['lat', 'lng', 'level', 'lang', 'radius'] }, earthquakes: {params: ['north', 'south', 'east', 'west', 'date', 'maxRows', 'minMagnitude'] }, findNearby: {params: ['lat', 'lng', '...