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MCP live MCP 2026-07-28 streamable-http ext: ui

Mappit

ai.mappit/mappit

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

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Uptime
100.0%
4 direct probes · 30d
Response
805ms
last probe
Tools
15
callable
Resources
1
readable
Prompts
3
available
Primary URL
https://mappit.ai/mcp
Score: 100/100
Handshake verified by our own probe.
pass Answers the MCP handshake 50/50
The handshake and the list calls succeeded on the primary URL.
pass Lists tools, resources or prompts 30/30
15 tools, 1 resources, 3 prompts returned.
pass 3 or more catalogue items 10/10
19 items in total; 3 or more earns these points.
pass Describes itself 10/10
97 characters; more than 30 earns these points.

Tools · 15

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?", "What's going on in France this week?". Returns Mappit's ranki…

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 "all the news from Kyiv this week", "more stories" after whats_…

get_story

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 vendor), the storyline it belongs …

search_mappit

Search Mappit by words or meaning. mode "keyword" (default) matches words in stories, storylines, places, businesses, public pins and public collections. mode "semantic" finds stories and storylines a…

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 latest stories, the storylines active here in the last 72 hours,…

list_threads

The storylines Mappit is following worldwide, ranked as on mappit.ai's Threads page. Each groups many stories about one developing event ("Iran nuclear talks", "Hurricane season"). Optionally one topi…

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, connections and what to watch. Attribute the analysis to Ma…

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 of the week's biggest storylines). Omit date and slug for th…

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 kind ("pharmacy", "hotel", "cafe") or by cuisine ("ramen"). Ne…

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-Meteo), history (events on this day in past years), stocks (S…

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 tools accept as topic), and which countries it covers. Use 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, the electricity mix, grid carbon), health, conflict and crisi…

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, UCDP, UNHCR, FEC, MIT Election Lab and more): the value wit…

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 period, optionally within a country, a US state or a contine…

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 Mappit's map. Each end can be a town, a business or landmark ("…

Resources · 1

mappit_map

The map Mappit's tools open beside their answers: the news around a place, a storyline across the world, a statistic coloured by region, a live layer, a route or businesses, each linking to mappit.ai.

ui://mappit/map.html

Prompts · 3

briefing

A short news briefing from Mappit's live map, for a place or the whole world.

place_report

A fuller report on one place: its profile, the last month's news, its storylines and who covers it.

week_in_review

This week's Week in Review: Mappit's analysis of the week's biggest storylines.

How to use

Claude Desktop or claude.ai: add a custom connector (Customize → Connectors; on Team and Enterprise plans an owner adds it under Organization settings → Connectors) with this server URL: https://mappit.ai/mcp

Cursor or Cline: add to your MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mappit": {
      "url": "https://mappit.ai/mcp",
      "transport": "streamable-http"
    }
  }
}