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find_place

Find a place on the waterways

A tool of Canal Nav

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Look up a place name on the British inland waterway network and return matching locations with coordinates (marinas, moorings, water points and other waterside facilities). Use it to disambiguate a place before calling plan_route or plan_round_trip, or to get coordinates for a known spot. Results are waterway locations only; it is not a general geocoder.

Input schema

PropertyTypeRequiredDescription
namestringyesPlace or facility name to search for, e.g. "Braunston" or "Aston Marina".
Raw JSON schema
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "name": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 2,
      "description": "Place or facility name to search for, e.g. \"Braunston\" or \"Aston Marina\"."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "name"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}

First seen 2026-09-14 · last seen 2026-09-14