Physical distance between two places

Question

I need to measure the physical distance between two places whose names are provided as strings. Since sometimes the names are written slightly differently, I was looking for

Answer 1

Although written in c (with python and tcl bindings), libdistance would be a tool for applying several distances metrics on strings/data.

Metrics included:

• bloom
• damerau
• euclid
• hamming
• jaccard
• levenshtein
• manhattan
• minkowski
• needleman_wunsch