Fuzzy search for communes

[rhanka]

When doing quality rectification, fuzzy match based on city label (fuzzy) + dep code (strict) leads up to 98% of reidentification (with correct insee code) on birth places (base on real use case: french driving licence).

Same endpoint could still be used, with an option (like fuzzy=true or search=fuzzy) - using for example js-levenshtein library.

2 use cases :

• when displaying some record to an enduser with "manual input historical data", UI suggest a rectification and an INSEE code for validation
• when doing bulk quality rectification, massive call to this API could be useful (in this case, csv enrichment like https://adresse.data.gouv.fr/csv would be very useful)

[jdesboeufs]

Sorry for the delay… Fuzzy search is already available in the API Communes since 2016. Juste read the doc :) https://geo.api.gouv.fr/communes?nom=tou&boost=population