ode>name</code> contains the names as observed. The second column <code>official_name</code> the official town name. We are going to assume that the second column is not available (or only for a part of the observations). The goal is to recode the 584 town names into a smaller set of town names knowing that most of the observed town names are actually misspelled versions of a smaller set of town names. We could also have solved the problem differently by linking the observed town names to a dataset containi