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GeoLens MCP Server

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GeoLens runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 1 695 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 1 Sep 2026.

Read-only access to a self-hosted GeoLens spatial catalog: datasets, features, maps, sandboxed SQL.

Installs per day peak 495 · avg 263 · -30% w/w
a month agotoday
1 695
Installs / week
pypi · geolens-mcp
215
Stars
22 open issues
1 Sep 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
Apache-2.0
License
Python

What the code does

We read the source, 14 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

Evidence

Things with no honest explanation: a promise that contradicts the code, code that runs at install time while hiding what it does, data leaving the machine.

Claims read-only, but the code runs commands backend/app/processing/raster/vrt.py:123
        return subprocess.run(
Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

File ships in the package but is absent from the source [пакет] geolens_mcp/__init__.py:1, [пакет] geolens_mcp/client.py:1, [пакет] geolens_mcp/server.py:1
этот файл ставится пользователю, но в репозитории его нет
    for path in glob.glob(os.path.join(multiproc_dir, f"{prefix}_*.db")):
Runs an external command backend/app/processing/raster/vrt.py:123
        return subprocess.run(
Dumps the whole environment backend/app/processing/ingest/ogr.py:378
    env = dict(os.environ if base_env is None else base_env)

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We found things in this code

Code changes quietly between releases, and nobody reads the diff of a dependency. We do, on every release — watch GeoLens and you get told the day something new turns up.

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Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add geolens -- uvx geolens-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "geolens": {
      "args": [
        "geolens-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.geolens]
command = "uvx"
args = ["geolens-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "geolens": {
      "args": [
        "geolens-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "geolens": {
      "args": [
        "geolens-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

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GeoLens — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for GeoLens?
GeoLens runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package geolens-mcp was installed 1 695 times last week.
How do I connect GeoLens?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls geolens-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use GeoLens?
The pypi package geolens-mcp was installed 1 695 times in the last week. Week over week that is -30%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is GeoLens open source?
Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in Python, 215 stars on GitHub and 22 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.