OpenStreetMap MCP Server

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OpenStreetMap runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 462 installs a week from npm. Last commit 1 Sep 2026.

Geocoding, walking/driving/cycling distances, route optimization, isochrones and POI search on OSM

Installs per day peak 238 · avg 7

a month agotoday

462

Installs / week

npm · osm-mcp

Stars

0 open issues

1 Sep 2026

Last commit

0 releases in 90 days

MIT

License

TypeScript

What the code does

We read the source, 12 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.

Reaches cloud metadata service src/hosts.ts:16

  'metadata.google.internal',

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

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 OpenStreetMap and you get told the day something new turns up.

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.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add osm-mcp -- npx -y osm-mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "osm-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "osm-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.osm-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "osm-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "osm-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "osm-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "osm-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "osm-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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OpenStreetMap — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for OpenStreetMap?

OpenStreetMap 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 npm package osm-mcp was installed 462 times last week.

How do I connect OpenStreetMap?

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 osm-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use OpenStreetMap?

The npm package osm-mcp was installed 462 times in the last week. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is OpenStreetMap open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.