Rule1: The main objective is to provide clear street names for both citizens and emergency dispatch. Minimizing the possibility of emergency personnel being unable to find a location or showing up at a similar, but incorrect location, is a vital objective.
After checking your names against the 'Streets Lookup' database above, send a list by fax at
910-253-2399 or email to the attention of Jan Clemmons. The names will then be rechecked for any conflicts and a reply will show which names have been reserved to you.
The City's Daytime Neighborhood Street Cleaning program currently runs from April 1 through November 30 for all neighborhoods except the North End, the South End, and Beacon Hill. The daytime program parking restrictions are not in effect during the months of December and March except in the North End, the South End, and Beacon Hill. There will be no posted street sweeping or program related parking enforcement during the months of January and February.
Mechanical sweepers operate weather-permitting. During the winter, street cleaning and parking restrictions are nighttime-only except in the North End, the South End, and Beacon Hill neighborhoods.
In the event that Public Works decides to cancel street sweeping and parking enforcement for weather related reasons, notifications will be sent out by e-mail to NO-TOW subscribers or you may contact 311.
Use this form to search schedules for posted street sweeping, to see when parking restrictions take effect. You can find schedules by street name, or by a combination of neighborhood and day. Lookup results are presented by District (which approximates a neighborhood), Side (odd/even), and Section (for longer streets chopped up by cross streets).
Public Works has made several changes to this program to better align the sweeping schedule with trash/recycling days. Please check the posted signs in your area. The Night Street Cleaning program is focused on sections of the Downtown area and also main thoroughfares city-wide and the parking regulations are in effect year-round. All street sweeping schedules are dependent on weather and roadway conditions.
Alias addresses may reflect how the property has been known historically or includes a house name, locality or County information that isn't needed for postal purposes. However, you can choose to use whichever version of the address you prefer where alternatives are displayed.
If the property you're looking for is a new build (or for example a house recently converted into flats), the postcode might not have been added to our database yet. If your address isn't listed please let us know. We'll try to get this fixed as quickly as possible.
Sometimes this might happen when an address has a property name and not a number, or has both. You can use either to address mail, but generally it's better to use the property number, rather than name.
There are also occasions when you might see multiple results for a single address, for example a house converted in flats, where the mail is delivered to a single, shared front door. In these cases we show the main property number and street name, and then the property number with the individual flat number. For example, there may be three results; 3 High Street; 3A High Street; and 3B High Street, or 3 High Street; Ground Floor Flat, 3 High Street; and First Floor Flat, 3 High Street.
If you can't see any results, we recommend trying a different browser - Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 10 or above generally work best with Postcode Finder. You'll be able to see the results on a map if you use Chrome, Safari, Firefox, IE 10 or above (it doesn't work with IE 8 or 9).
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Now I tried to find lake nearby. I clicked section All POI and typed in Polish name "lake". Fenix was looking for it endlessly. Lake is 2km from me in straight line. I also checked inf there is correct name at the map where lake is. Everything is correct but watch can't find it. Am I doing something wrong?
The easiest solution I can think of is to use the Garmin Explore App. There you can search for a street name or lake and start the navigation on the connected watch. In general the app is not very good, but this is one of the few things it can do
In particular, you can restrict your search to a place using a comma or the word 'near' (lower case only) to separate the two (e.g. Hinton Rd, Cambridge). You can distinguish the several places of the same name(e.g. Cambridge in Cambs, Gloucs UK, Ontario Canada; Mass USA etc.) by asking for the county or country after another comma (e.g. Coronation, Cambridge, England), assuming the place includes the information (with the OSM 'is_in' tag, and possibly later with the 'is_in' relation).
Furthermore, you can find the distance between two results by putting a colon between them. SoHinton Road, Fulbourn: Crossings Road, Chapel-en-le-Frith will look up both and tell you how far it is between them.
If you want to discriminate by type where things have the same name, put this after the name. For example: Chinley Station will give you the railway station (and in this case, also Station car park, as station appears in the name of the car park) while Chinley village will give you the village. This doesn't apply to streets: you can't say Hinton Road highway for example.
I am considering a more analytic approach to search terms, so we don't rely on a syntax that isn't necessarily obvious. To that end it would be helpful if people could add to the namefinder's address format page so I get a good idea of what street addresses look like across the world.
Names with accented characters will be located even if you omit the accent (e.g. Sodertalje finds Sdertlje). is recognised by o. Pretty much every diacritical 'latin-like' character in the Unicode character set is matched by its non-accented equivalent.
Punctuation and case are pretty much ignored, except that spaces divide words, so Field Fare Way will not match Fieldfare Way. However, certain suffixes which are commonly quoted either as part of a longer word or as separate words in languages like German and Dutch - for example Strae and Straat - are recognised to be special and will match whether or not concatenated and/or abbreviated. So for example, the following are all equivalent to the Name finder: Budapester Platz, Budapester Pl, Budapesterpl, Budapesterplatz. See the are abbreviations page for a list of recognised suffixes.
Because types of item and their names use the same index, places [or place] near Cambridge will yield street Abbey Place... as well as suburb Chesterton, and likewise churches near Waterbeach may yield street Church Lane... among the results. For this reason, at the moment place of worship is not included in the index, so searches for e.g. place of worship near Cambridge don't work because places near Cambridge would otherwise yield all the place of worship too if I put that term in the index. But place of worship is translated into church or mosque if there is enough information in the place_of_worship node to determine this; Hindu temples and the like will have to wait for now.
In general, an item has to have a name (including name:language), ref or airport code in order to be found. However, there are some exceptions to this to put certain anonymous items in the index, for example supermarkets and cinemas, so cinemas near Cambridge will give you them all, not just the named ones.
Types of things are only indexed in English. Kirchen nahe Mnchen and Hpitaux pres Besanon sadly don't work. You have to say churches near Mnchen or hospitals near Besanon. In a future version I will attempt to support multiple languages here, if you will help with the translations. There is a translations page to gather these.
A full postcode used as a qualifier or restrictor is abbreviated to the partial postcode. This is then used either to limit the search term to results near to the postcode area centroid or limit instances of the place name given to those near the postcode area centroid respectively.
Full postcode searches work around the problem of copyright databases by translating the postcode into a street name (or possibly a building name or the like), place name and postcode prefix, and then using those to do the search, i.e. to geolocate the postcode, in the usual way as above. The translation is done by a Google search for the postcode and analyzing the results to see if a street address precedes it, and if so to extract the salient data from it. This does, of course, depend on some address in a postcode being indexed by Google. Not all are, but it is surprisingly common - lots of people publish addresses, estate agents in particular have a good spread of postcodes for example.
An index database is built initially from the planet export and then updated regularly from the incremental differences. This indexes names in a canonical form which makes them easy to look up by name and variations, and this is further divided into individual words for efficiency of matching. The index building process is in three stages: the first updates a database of the entire planet data; the second regenerates all the indexes which share the same canonical string (both old and new when this changes) and the third updates the separate index database.
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