Mapsource OpenStreetMap & Geospatial APIs MCP Server

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Mapsource OpenStreetMap & Geospatial APIs is answering right now. Last checked 16 min ago. It exposes 13 tools.

OpenStreetMap queries, maps/styles, search, routing, terrain, analysis, pipelines, and rendering.

Uptime history 58 days of history · worst day 57%

58 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

182 of 182 checks

Tools

read from the server

1311 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 59

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 7 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

14 Sep a tool changed the parameters it asks for3 times that day geo_search

14 Sep a tool description was rewritten2 times that day geo_search

11 Sep 13 tool descriptions were rewritten basemap_catalog, elevation, find_features and 10 more

11 Sep 4 tools changed the parameters they ask for geo_analyze, geo_render, geo_search and 1 more

10 Sep 5 tools changed the parameters they ask for7 times that day geo_analyze, geo_data, geo_render and 2 more

10 Sep 3 tool descriptions were rewritten4 times that day geo_data, geo_search, geo_style

10 Sep a tool appeared geo_data

9 Sep 5 tools appeared geo_analyze, geo_navigate, geo_render and 2 more

9 Sep 5 tools changed the parameters they ask for find_features, geo_analyze, geo_render and 2 more

9 Sep 3 tool descriptions were rewritten geo_analyze, geo_render, geo_style

and 18 more, back to 7 September 2026

Mapsource OpenStreetMap & Geospatial APIs missed 4 checks this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 16 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mapsource --transport http https://mapsource.io/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://mapsource.io/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mapsource]
url = "https://mapsource.io/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mapsource": {
      "url": "https://mapsource.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "mapsource": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mapsource.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This server publishes 1 more address. The block above uses the one we reach during checks; the full list is under Endpoints below, and the author may intend a particular one for your client.

Available tools 13

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

geo

geo_analyze

Measure or transform geometry using buffer, centroid, bbox, area, length, distance, intersect, union, difference, contains, intersects, nearest, simplify, or convex. Inputs accept GeoJSON, coordinate pairs, Overpass results, and result handles. Polygon overlay operations require areas. Use operation pipeline for up to 12 ordered steps and estimateOnly for cost estimation. Requires a subscription key.

geo_data

Read service status, basemap catalog, point elevation, contours, usage, and metrics. Status includes subsystem availability and replication lag. Elevation returns surface and raw model heights. Metrics report request rates, success rates, latency percentiles, and dataset ages. Status and basemaps are public; other operations require a subscription key.

geo_navigate

Navigation operations: route, matrix, isochrone, map_match, snap, and optimize. Route accepts 2–10 waypoints and optional elevation profiles. Matrix supports up to 625 pairs. Map matching accepts up to 1,000 trace points; optimization accepts 3–20 stops. Results include geometry or travel costs and source metadata. Requires a subscription key. Unroutable requests return an error and require revised inputs.

geo_render

Render a static PNG map from a center and zoom or bounding box. Supports GeoJSON overlays, result handles, and up to 50 labeled markers. Dark and light styles use raster rendering; other preset or profile names use vector rendering. Requires a subscription key.

geo_search

Search places and retrieve geographic entities. Use lookup for local address, business, brand and landmark search with soft map-focus bias, strict house numbers, source IDs and ambiguity reporting. Use discover for POIs in a viewport, polygon or isochrone, optionally ranked by travel time. Other operations: search, autocomplete, nearby, reverse, details, geocode, resolve, entity. Requires a subscription key.

geo_style

Configure semantic basemap styles. Operations: explain and schema retrieve public definitions; intent generates a proposal; preview compiles changes; save, list, revisions, diff, and delete manage profiles. Submit semantic manifests or preset patches, not raw MapLibre JSON. Authenticated operations affect the current key's profiles.

basemap

basemap_catalog

List raster and vector tile templates, source zoom ranges, dataset snapshots, and attribution. The catalog is public; tile requests require a subscription key.

elevation

elevation

Sample terrain at lat/lon. elevationMeters is clamped to zero; sampledMeters retains the raw model elevation. belowSeaLevel identifies negative samples and bathymetryTile references the source raster. Requires a subscription key. Not survey-grade.

features

find_features

Find cafes, restaurants, buildings, parks, schools, hospitals, transit stops, drinking water, or trails within a bounding box up to 0.5 degrees per axis. Returns OSM geometry and tags, subject to the output limit. Requires a subscription key or authorized x402 payment.

isochrone

isochrone

Calculate reachable-area polygons from a coordinate for up to four travel-time bands. Returns GeoJSON for catchment, coverage, and accessibility analysis. Requires a subscription key.

overpass

overpass_query

Execute bounded Overpass QL over OSM nodes, ways, relations, tags, geometry, areas, metadata, and spatial selectors. Historical attic queries are unsupported. Requires a subscription key or authorized x402 payment. Use service_status to retrieve the dataset timestamp.

route

route

Calculate a turn-by-turn route between 2–10 waypoints. Supported costing: auto, bicycle, pedestrian, truck, motor_scooter, and bus. Returns GeoJSON, distance, duration, and maneuvers. Set elevation to true for a terrain profile with gain and loss. Requires a subscription key.

service

service_status

Read Overpass engine readiness, dataset timestamp, billing state, and x402 payment mode. Public. Use geo_data with operation status for the full subsystem report.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mapsource.io/mcp	streamable-http	answering	645 ms	16 min ago
https://api.mapsource.io/mcp	streamable-http	answering	627 ms	16 min ago

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Mapsource OpenStreetMap & Geospatial APIs — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Mapsource OpenStreetMap & Geospatial APIs do?

It exposes 13 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: basemap_catalog, elevation, find_features, geo_analyze, geo_data, geo_navigate and 7 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Mapsource OpenStreetMap & Geospatial APIs working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 182 of 182 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 1311 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Mapsource OpenStreetMap & Geospatial APIs?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Mapsource OpenStreetMap & Geospatial APIs need an API key?

No. Mapsource OpenStreetMap & Geospatial APIs completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 13 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Mapsource OpenStreetMap & Geospatial APIs?

It answers our handshake in 1311 ms on average, which is faster than 2% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.