Mappit

by mappit.ai · https://mappit.ai/mcp

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

15 tools✓ all read-only✓ no account neededPricing: not listed

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What it can do

15 tools, in the server's own words.

whats_happeningread-only

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?", "What's going on in F…

list_storiesread-only

Page through Mappit's stories for a place, a country or the whole world, newest first (or sort "trending" for Mappit's ranking).

get_storyread-only

One story in full: headline, summary, publisher and article link, publication time, where it happened, how Mappit found it (found_by: its own crawler or an AI …

search_mappitread-only

Search Mappit by words or meaning.

get_locationread-only

A place's profile on Mappit, for what a place is and who covers it: its written overview (geography, economy, recent history), its five latest stories, the sto…

list_threadsread-only

The storylines Mappit is following worldwide, ranked as on mappit.ai's Threads page.

get_threadread-only

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, connections and wh…

get_digestread-only

Mappit's editions: the Daily Digest (the day's top stories worldwide, as emailed to subscribers) and the weekly Week in Review (an analysis of the week's bigge…

find_placesread-only

Find businesses and landmarks near a place in Mappit's directory of 14.9 million OpenStreetMap entries: by name ("Pike Place Market"), by kind ("pharmacy", "ho…

get_map_layerread-only

One of Mappit's live map layers, for a place or the whole world: earthquakes (USGS), wildfires (NASA FIRMS), air_quality and weather (Open-Meteo), history (eve…

get_mappit_inforead-only

About Mappit itself: what it is, its version, how many stories, storylines and places it holds right now, the topic list (the slugs other tools accept as topic…

list_map_appsread-only

Mappit's Map Apps: statistics painted on the map — world and US economy, people, health, conflict and crisis, US elections and Mappit's own news atlas.

get_statisticread-only

One statistic for one country, US state, US county or congressional district from Mappit's Map Apps data (World Bank, BLS, BEA, Census, CDC, UCDP, UNHCR, FEC, …

rank_regionsread-only

Countries, US states, US counties or congressional districts ranked by one indicator from Mappit's Map Apps data, for the latest or a given period, optionally …

get_directionsread-only

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.

Test results

Safe mode: only tools labeled read-only were run. How the test works

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Fast enough
1 warning
- !find_places: Slowest tool: find_places (8.9 s): users will notice the wait
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Resources and prompts work
1 warning (3 prompts)
- !place_report: Leaving out a required input gets an internal error instead of an "invalid input" error: An error occurred.
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ConnectsConnected in 279 ms
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Ready for the newest MCP versionUses the latest MCP version (2026-07-28)
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Lists its toolsFound 15 tools
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Every tool is describedAll 15 tools and their inputs are described
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Tools are labeled safe or dangerousEvery tool has a safety label
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No hidden instructionsNo hidden instructions found in tool descriptions
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Tools work with good inputs
All good
- ✓whats_happening: Worked (1.2 s)
- ✓list_stories: Worked (162 ms)
- ✓get_story: Answered with an error, probably because of our sample input: NOT_FOUND: No story with id "test" is on the map. search_mappit finds stories by words or meaning.
- ✓search_mappit: Worked (828 ms)
- ✓get_location: Answered with an error, probably because of our sample input: NOT_FOUND: Mappit has no place called "test". If you know where it is, pass place as "lat,lon" and the nearest Mappit place will answer.
- ✓list_threads: Worked (175 ms)
- ✓get_thread: Answered with an error, probably because of our sample input: NOT_FOUND: No storyline with id "test". list_threads shows the current ones.
- ✓get_digest: Worked (131 ms)
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Bad inputs give a clean error
All good
- ✓whats_happening: Refused wrong type for "place" with a clear error
- ✓list_stories: Refused wrong type for "place" with a clear error
- ✓get_story: Refused missing required input "id" with a clear error
- ✓get_story: Refused wrong type for "id" with a clear error
- ✓search_mappit: Refused missing required input "q" with a clear error
- ✓search_mappit: Refused wrong type for "q" with a clear error
- ✓get_location: Refused missing required input "place" with a clear error
- ✓get_location: Refused wrong type for "place" with a clear error
- and 16 more
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Tools work together
2 chains working
- ✓whats_happening → get_story: get_story found what whats_happening returned (id = "ag7RQvrlfY")
- ✓list_stories → get_story: get_story found what list_stories returned (id = "TKGWQJkDHt")
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No secrets leakedChecked 48 error messages: no secrets or internal details
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npx qamcp-cli https://mappit.ai/mcp

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