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Maps and places: tools for AI agents

Search places, get directions and geocode addresses. The best matches among the MCP servers, command-line tools, web APIs and Claude Code plugins AptLynx checks every night, working ones first.

MCP servers

• com.mcparmory/google-maps Verified publisher · Runs on your computer
  Geocode addresses, calculate directions, and search places with maps and routing
• Mappit: get_directions Verified publisher · Working at last check
  Driving, walking or cycling directions between places: distance, travel time and turn-by-turn steps, with a link that opens the route on Mappit's map. Each…
• Google Maps: maps_place_search Verified publisher · Working at last check
  "Find restaurants / hotels / coffee shops / [businesses] near [location]" / "nearby [type] within [radius]" / "places to eat in [area]" — find nearby…
• Mapposter: search_location Verified publisher · Working at last check
  Use this when a map poster needs a place's coordinates, such as the street or venue to mark (where a couple met, a new home), or when the place the user named…
• Litescrape: google_maps Verified publisher · Working at last check
  Search Google Maps places, or get one place by ID.
• Scrapefield: search_places Verified publisher · Working at last check
  Find businesses and places on Google Maps by a text query, optionally around a point. Each result is the full listing: place_id, name, categories,…
• Remap Routes: find_place Verified publisher · Working at last check
  Look up a place by name or address and return matching places with their coordinates. Use it to confirm an ambiguous start before generating routes.
• Roote: place_search Verified publisher · Working at last check
  Search cities, points of interest and named places, optionally biased around a coordinate.
• Gmaps: get_place Verified publisher · Working at last check
  Read one saved place, by our id, Google's cid, Google's place ID, or a Google Maps link to it. It never searches: a place we have not saved answers 404, and…
• Google Maps: search_google_maps Working at last check
  Search Google Maps for businesses/places by keyword and location. Returns name, address, phone, rating, opening hours, and GPS coordinates for each result.
• Wot Stats: maps_search Verified publisher · Working at last check
  Search maps
• Google Maps Places Runs on your computer
  Allow AI systems to search for places and get business info via Google Maps Places API.
• Detourmap Places: get_place Verified publisher · Working at last check
  Fetch one place’s full record by slug (preferred, e.g. "neuschwanstein-castle") or exact name: coordinates, founding year, worldwide fame rank and tier, short…

Command-line tools

• mapnik
  Toolkit for developing mapping applications
• direction
  Detect the direction of text: left-to-right, right-to-left, or neutral writing system direction directionality rtl ltr cli bin
• inline-source-map-comment
  Create an inline source map comment from a source map inline sourcemap source map comment js css cli browser client-side
• @bugsnag/source-maps
  CLI and JS library for uploading source maps to Bugsnag bugsnag source maps cli tool upload
• babelmap
  Unicode Character Map for Windows
• mapcrafter
  Minecraft map renderer

Web APIs

• GraphHopper Directions API
  With the GraphHopper Directions API (https://www.graphhopper.com/products/) you can integrate A-to-B route planning, turn-by-turn navigation, route…
• Amazon Location Service
  "Suite of geospatial services including Maps, Places, Routes, Tracking, and Geofencing" cloud
• Entity Search Client
  The Entity Search API lets you send a search query to Bing and get back search results that include entities and places. Place results include restaurants,…
• Listen API: Podcast Search, Directory, and Insights API
  Simple & no-nonsense podcast search & directory API. Search all podcasts and episodes by people, places, or topics. entertainment
• geodesystems.com:443
  Search for data in lots of places - manage your documents, photos and critical business knowledge - communicate and coordinate with blogs, interactive wikis,…
• Service Map
  Service Map API Reference cloud

Claude Code plugins

• amazon-location-service
  Guide developers through adding maps, places search, geocoding, routing, and other geospatial features with Amazon Location Service, including authentication…
• nimble
  Nimble web data toolkit — search, extract, map, crawl the web and work with structured data agents
• frontend-design
  Guidance for distinctive, intentional visual design when building new UI or reshaping an existing one. Helps with aesthetic direction, typography, and making…

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