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Is there an open source (or freely accessible) database of geofence coordinates for common places, such as cities or national parks?

Take a look at Flickr’s openly licensed shapefiles:

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12:59 pm / 3rd December 2013 / databases, geolocation, googlemaps, location, maps, quora, open-source

What are the best sites to find events by location?

It depends on what kind of event you are looking for.

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9:45 am / 15th February 2012 / events, location, quora, meetups

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

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

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10:57 am / 25th October 2010 / location, wikipedia, quora

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