Parking is tight in some parts of San Francisco and sometimes you need to park for more than 2 hours. PayByPhone doesn't have an reverse search by address - their support pages claims this is possible but I could not find it in the app. This weekend I needed it - a 3 hour event and my normal approach - pay manually, take a photo of the parking meter id, then when the first paid-for-parking period expires I pay for more parking using the app by typing in the parking id. For reasons this did not go to plan and I ended up doing google street view searches for the parking meter and then uploading fuzzy images to claude to run ocr to get the id - far from ideal and far from successful. So i built this site to do address search as well as lat long search.
Parking is tight in some parts of San Francisco and sometimes you need to park for more than 2 hours. PayByPhone doesn't have an reverse search by address - their support pages claims this is possible but I could not find it in the app. This weekend I needed it - a 3 hour event and my normal approach - pay manually, take a photo of the parking meter id, then when the first paid-for-parking period expires I pay for more parking using the app by typing in the parking id. For reasons this did not go to plan and I ended up doing google street view searches for the parking meter and then uploading fuzzy images to claude to run ocr to get the id - far from ideal and far from successful. So i built this site to do address search as well as lat long search.