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The data at Geonames can be incredibly precise. You can search for features with great detail. Search for General Sherman, and you get the position of the General Sherman Tree, a giant sequoia in California, the biggest living organism on Earth.

Satellite imagery at that point doesn't let us indicate if that individual tree is really there, but we assume they're right.

Another example, these are searches for facilities in the Haleakala National Park at Hawaii: Hosver Ground Campground, Leilewi Overlook, Holua Cabin...

Based on those searches, we have set up this Haleakala example map.

Moreover, we have also created a Geonames link in the map-opening section of individual locations. As you know, you can open places bookmarked at Tagzania directly in other mappign sites: with the Geonames link, what you get is a view with the nearest placenames mapped around. Thanks, Geonames!