repair_name: Try to repair the street name

In alankjackson/GeocodeHou: Geocode addresses in Houston using an input address/lat-long file

Try to repair the street name

Description

We will search in the given zipcode for street names that are close to the given name, using the generalized Levenshtein (edit) distance. On success, the Lat Long will be returned. Maybe several. We will ignore street names likely to fail badly:

• names with fewer than 4 letters

• names containing STREET (A STREET, B STREET)

• Number streets (4TH, 5TH, etc)

• County Roads (CR 235)

• Farm-to-Market Roads (FM 1960)

Usage

repair_name(
  Street_num,
  Prefix = "",
  Street_name,
  Street_type = "",
  Zipcode,
  Distance = 2
)

Arguments

Street_num	Number portion of address.
Prefix	Directional prefix (N, S, E, W) if exists.
Street_name	Name of the street.
Street_type	Designation like RD, ST, LN, etc.
Zipcode	The zip code for the address
Distance	The maximum edit distance allowed

Value

A tibble will be returned with the:

• Longitude (Lon),

• Latitude (Lat),

• the new name (New_name),

• a success flag (Success) (T/F),

• and a Fail code describing why the repair attempt failed.

  There may be several points returned if several matched.

Examples

repair_name("1311", "", "Tuline", "ST", "77008", Distance=2)

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