- Query google maps to validate cities of residence provided as part of an Indian survey
- Use Levenstein edit distance to resolve differences in names
- Use the google maps API to get latitude, longitude coordinates of cities
- Use vincenty distance to calculate between each village and the nearest city
- place name text matching: use Levenshtein edit distance to compare 2 lists of places
- query_google_maps, 2 ways: with and without the respondent's state
- combine queries: combine results of above into one dataframe