Find closest match for misspelled city names?

Question

I have a list of cities that have numerous incorrect spelling for the same city. One city is misspelled 18 times! I am trying to clean this up but its taking hours. Is th

Answer 1

As the infamous "Bariteney Spears" suggests, and as most us know from experience, Google, through it's crawling, has gotten pretty good at correctly spell checking popular names. City are the things it usually corrects well. You might thus try to write a PHP function that parses a Googlse search page to see what correction Google suggests, or, more complicated (because the page is more complex), you might even try to parse the options given to you by Google Maps.