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com.detourmap/places

MCP serverVerified domain · detourmap.comRemote● LiveFree to try

Places worth a detour, from Wikidata: search, nearby lookup, fame rankings, stats. No key, CC0.

Install

Remote server: your requests and data go to detourmap.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http places https://detourmap.com/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.

What it can do

The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.

  • search_places — Search 39,832 notable places worldwide by name (accent- and case-insensitive substring match): archaeological and nature. Optionally filter
  • get_place — Fetch one place’s full record by slug (preferred, e.g. "neuschwanstein-castle") or exact name: coordinates, founding year, worldwide fame ra
  • places_near — List notable places within a radius of a WGS84 coordinate, most famous first (rank order), each with distance_km — the direct answer to "wha
  • top_places — The most famous places worldwide, in one country, or of one kind — ordered by Detourmap fame rank (derived from Wikipedia language coverage;
  • list_kinds — The layers Detourmap carries — archaeological and nature — with worldwide counts and a browsable index page for each. The atlas is cut to th
  • list_countries — Every country in the atlas with its place count, most first — answers "which country has the most notable places". Countries with eight or m
  • get_statistics — Headline statistics computed live from the atlas: totals by kind, top countries, fame-tier sizes, dated-entry stats, geographic extremes and
  • random_place — One random place with its full record — deliberately biased toward the little-known long tail, like the site’s own "Surprise me" button. Opt

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