Geobytes

The Geobytes Get Nearby Cities API provides a list of cities that are geographically close to the nominated city. You can use it either client-side or server-side to programmatically determine the cities that are in the vicinity of given location, given the locations fully qualified city name, a Geobytes Location Code, or an IP Address. In JavaScript, for example you might access this service like this:

Which produces an output of something like this: Nearby Cities

Miles	Kms	City	Bearing	Direction

BTW If you would like to see a live real life example, then please checkout our IP Locator Page, and perhaps view the page's source. Alternatively, to use the API server-side you might approach it something like we have here in this PHP example:

  
   function getIP() {
      foreach (array('HTTP_CLIENT_IP', 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR', 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED', 'HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP', 'HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR', 'HTTP_FORWARDED', 'REMOTE_ADDR') as $key) {
         if (array_key_exists($key, $_SERVER) === true) {
            foreach (explode(',', $_SERVER[$key]) as $ip) {
               if (filter_var($ip, FILTER_VALIDATE_IP) !== false) {
                  return $ip;
               }
            }
         }
      }
   }

$tags=json_decode(file_get_contents('http://getnearbycities.geobytes.com/GetNearbyCities?radius=100&locationcode='. getIP()), true);
print_r($tags);
echo PHP_EOL ;

Parameters

Returns

The response is a list of cities in the form of a JSON array of arrays - with each array being the following details of the nearby city. This link will open a new window containing sample results based on your current location.