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mapbox/mcp-server

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The Mapbox MCP Server is a Node.js server implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) designed to integrate Mapbox's extensive geospatial data and services into AI applications and agents. This server enables AI systems to become geospatially aware, allowing them to understand, reason about, and interact with physical locations and geographic data effectively. It provides seamless access to a wide range of Mapbox APIs, including global geocoding, points of interest (POI) search, multi-modal routing with real-time traffic, travel time matrices, isochrone generation, and static map image creation. The server is particularly useful for developers building AI travel assistants, logistics optimizers, location-based recommendation systems, or any application requiring spatial intelligence. By leveraging the Mapbox MCP Server, these applications can perform tasks such as finding nearby businesses or landmarks, calculating optimal routes with traffic considerations, visualizing reachable areas within certain time or distance constraints, and generating map images with custom markers and overlays. Integration with popular clients like Claude Desktop, Visual Studio Code, and Cursor AI IDE is supported, making it accessible for various development environments. The server requires a Mapbox access token for usage, ensuring secure and authorized access to Mapbox's location services. The server includes specialized tools for different geospatial functions: the Matrix tool for travel time and distance calculations, Static Image tool for map visualization, POI and Category search tools for finding places by name or category, Forward and Reverse Geocoding tools for coordinate and address conversions, Directions tool for routing with multiple options and exclusions, and Isochrone tool for computing reachable areas. These tools collectively empower AI applications to unlock geospatial intelligence and enhance their contextual understanding of the physical world. Overall, the Mapbox MCP Server is a powerful middleware that bridges AI technologies with advanced geospatial capabilities, enabling smarter, location-aware AI solutions.

https://github.com/mapbox/mcp-server

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