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Mappit

MCP serverVerified domain · mappit.aiRemote● LiveFree to try

The world's news on a live map: place briefings, storylines, statistics, live layers, businesses.

Install

Remote server: your requests and data go to mappit.ai. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http mappit https://mappit.ai/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.

  • whats_happening — Use first for the news in a place or the world: "What's happening in Seattle?", "Any news near Lagos?", "What's the biggest news today?", "W
  • list_stories — Page through Mappit's stories for a place, a country or the whole world, newest first (or sort "trending" for Mappit's ranking). Use for "al
  • get_story — One story in full: headline, summary, publisher and article link, publication time, where it happened, how Mappit found it (found_by: its ow
  • search_mappit — Search Mappit by words or meaning. mode "keyword" (default) matches words in stories, storylines, places, businesses, public pins and public
  • get_location — A place's profile on Mappit, for what a place is and who covers it: its written overview (geography, economy, recent history), its five late
  • list_threads — The storylines Mappit is following worldwide, ranked as on mappit.ai's Threads page. Each groups many stories about one developing event ("I
  • get_thread — One storyline: its summary, its stories (newest first, paged) and, when it has one, Mappit's AI analysis — the story so far, why it matters,
  • get_digest — Mappit's editions: the Daily Digest (the day's top stories worldwide, as emailed to subscribers) and the weekly Week in Review (an analysis
  • find_places — Find businesses and landmarks near a place in Mappit's directory of 14.9 million OpenStreetMap entries: by name ("Pike Place Market"), by ki
  • get_map_layer — One of Mappit's live map layers, for a place or the whole world: earthquakes (USGS), wildfires (NASA FIRMS), air_quality and weather (Open-M
  • get_mappit_info — About Mappit itself: what it is, its version, how many stories, storylines and places it holds right now, the topic list (the slugs other to
  • list_map_apps — Mappit's Map Apps (its Layer Apps): statistics painted on the map — world and US economy, people, the environment and energy (temperature, t
  • get_statistic — One statistic for one country, US state, US county or congressional district from Mappit's Map Apps data (World Bank, BLS, BEA, Census, CDC,
  • rank_regions — Countries, US states, US counties or congressional districts ranked by one indicator from Mappit's Map Apps data, for the latest or a given
  • get_directions — Driving, walking or cycling directions between places: distance, travel time and turn-by-turn steps, with a link that opens the route on Map

KitScout test notes

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