Mappit
REMOTE · MAPPIT.AI
The world's news on a live map: place briefings, storylines, statistics, live layers, businesses.
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Scores higher than 85% of remote servers
Reachable. Last reached 5 Nov 2026.
Category News and Social
How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Endpoint Security83
- The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key. View diagnostics → Pass
- No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Partial
- HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path. View diagnostics → Pass
- The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present. View diagnostics → Pass
- DNSSEC is configured correctly; the domain's records validate against the full chain to the root. View diagnostics → Pass
Transport & Reachability100
- Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake. View diagnostics → Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability77
- 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).Pass
- AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 3676 tokens (~245/item across 15 items; 15 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. See how to fix → Fail
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management53
- Stability observed for 16 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage100
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 100% of tool parameters carry a description.Pass
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 15 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 16 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).Pass
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 5 Nov 26 0
- Server version: 2.9.7 → 2.9.8 functional
- 3 Nov 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 43 to 47. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 13 days of observed history at the previous scan, 14 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 1 Nov 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 37 to 40. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 11 days of observed history at the previous scan, 12 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 31 Oct 26 0
- Server version: 2.9.6 → 2.9.7 functional
- 30 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 30 to 33. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 9 days of observed history at the previous scan, 10 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 28 Oct 26 +1
- Tool “list_map_apps” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Server version: 2.9.5 → 2.9.6 functional
- 26 Oct 26 +1
- Server version: 2.9.4 → 2.9.5 functional
- 24 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 10 to 13. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 3 days of observed history at the previous scan, 4 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 5 Nov 2026 · Probed https://mappit.ai/mcp
TLS valid
Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .
| Subject | Issuer | Valid from | Valid until | Key | Signature | Serial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN=mappit.ai | CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US | 11 Sept 2026 | 10 Dec 2026 | ECDSA 256 | ECDSA-SHA256 | d185c376f0c27c8134044b5c1d1d0cb |
| SANs: mappit.ai, *.mappit.ai | ||||||
| CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US (CA) | CN=GTS Root R4,O=Google Trust Services LLC,C=US | 13 Dec 2023 | 20 Feb 2029 | ECDSA 256 | ECDSA-SHA384 | 7ff31977972c224a76155d13b6d685e3 |
| CN=GTS Root R4,O=Google Trust Services LLC,C=US (CA) | CN=GlobalSign Root CA,OU=Root CA,O=GlobalSign nv-sa,C=BE | 15 Nov 2023 | 28 Jan 2028 | ECDSA 384 | SHA256-RSA | 7fe530bf331343bedd821610493d8a1b |
Background: What to check on a remote MCP endpoint →
DNSSEC secure
Validation of mappit.ai. — Secure
| Zone | DS | Keys | Algorithms | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| . | trust_anchor | 20326, 38696 | 8, 8 | Verified |
| ai. | present | 1814, 3799 | 8, 8 | Verified |
| mappit.ai. | present | 2371 | 13 | Verified |
| mappit.ai. | Verified address RRset verified with the apex keys |
Authentication No authorisation required
The endpoint answered without asking for a token. Anyone who knows the URL can reach it.
| Result | No authorisation required |
|---|---|
| HTTP status | 200 |
| Header | Value |
|---|---|
| strict-transport-security | max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains |
Background: How OAuth 2.1 works in the 2026 MCP spec →
Transports 2 probes
| Transport | URL | Outcome | Status | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| streamable-http | https://mappit.ai/mcp | Verified | 200 | |
| http (plaintext) | http://mappit.ai/mcp | HTTPS enforced | 307 | https://mappit.ai/mcp |
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
find_places Find businesses and places ~228
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"). Nearest first, with address, opening hours, website and phone where OpenStreetMap has them. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| category | string|null | – | One of: food-drink, shopping, health, services, culture, recreation, education, lodging, office. |
| limit | integer|null | – | How many: default 10, at most 30. |
| near | string | yes | Where to look: a place name, a landmark ("Pike Place Market"), a place id or "lat,lon". |
| q | string|null | – | A name, a kind of place or a cuisine ("Starbucks", "pharmacy", "ramen"). Omit to list what is nearest. |
| radius_km | number|null | – | How far to look in km: default 5, at most 50. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_digest Daily Digest and Week in Review ~166
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 the latest; set list to true for the archive.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| date | string|null | – | For a daily digest: its date, like "2026-09-28". |
| detail | string|null | – | "brief" (default: long texts clipped) or "full". |
| kind | string|null | – | "daily" (default) or "weekly". |
| list | boolean | – | true for the archive (newest first) instead of one edition. |
| slug | string|null | – | For a Week in Review: its slug, exactly as the list returned it. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_directions Directions ~209
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 ("Pike Place Market"), a street address, or "lat,lon". Routing © openrouteservice.org by HeiGIT; map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| from | string | yes | Where the trip starts: a place name, a business or landmark, a street address, or "lat,lon". |
| mode | string|null | – | One of: driving (default), walking, cycling. |
| steps | integer|null | – | How many turn-by-turn steps to return: default 25, at most 80; 0 for none. |
| to | string | yes | Where it ends, in any of the same forms. |
| via | array|null | – | Stops on the way, in order (at most 8), in any of the same forms. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_location Place profile ~227
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, the publishers that covered it in the last 30 days, live news radio and TV nearby, S&P 500 companies headquartered there, and current conditions. Use for "tell me about Fort Sumner" or "who covers the news in Boise?". For what's happening there now (the ranked news), use whats_happening.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| detail | string|null | – | "brief" (default: the overview clipped) or "full" (the whole overview). |
| include | array|null | – | Sections to include, any of: about, stories, threads, sources, radio_tv, stocks, conditions. Default: about, stories, threads, sources. |
| place | string | yes | The place: a name ("Boise", "Portland, Maine"), a place id, or "lat,lon" (the nearest Mappit place answers). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_map_layer Map layer ~237
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&P 500 companies by headquarters), events (public event pins) and radio_tv (live news radio and TV streams). For the whole world, air quality lists the worst readings first and weather the hottest.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| date | string|null | – | For history and stocks: a date like "2026-09-28" (history uses its month and day). Default today. |
| layer | string | yes | One of: earthquakes, wildfires, air_quality, weather, history, stocks, events, radio_tv. |
| limit | integer|null | – | How many: default 20, at most 50. |
| place | string|null | – | Where: a place name, place id, country or "lat,lon". Omit for the whole world. |
| radius_km | number|null | – | Around a place, how far to look in km. Default 100. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_mappit_info About Mappit ~88
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 learn valid topics.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| include | array|null | – | Sections, any of: pulse, topics, countries, token. Default: pulse and topics. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_statistic Statistic for a place ~259
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 with its period, its rank, the US figure, the source and licence, and the recent series. Indicator codes come from list_map_apps; a news topic share is "news_topic_share:<topic>" (or pass topic).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| indicator | string | yes | An indicator code from list_map_apps, e.g. "unemployment_rate", "gdp_per_capita_ppp", "pres_margin", "news_topic_share:world-conflict". |
| period | string|null | – | A period like "2024", "2026-08" or "2026-08-15". Default: the latest. |
| place | string | yes | A country, US state, US county ("Travis County, TX") or district ("TX-07"), or a region key ("FR", "US-TX"). |
| topic | string|null | – | For news_topic_share only: the topic slug from list_map_apps ("world-conflict"), when indicator does not carry it. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_story Get a story ~101
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 to, and the other outlets that carried the same story (also_carried_by). Pass a story id from another Mappit tool.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | string | yes | The story's id, exactly as another Mappit tool returned it. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_thread Get a storyline ~158
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 Mappit. Pass an id from list_threads, whats_happening or search_mappit.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| cursor | string|null | – | The cursor from the previous page of stories, exactly as returned. |
| detail | string|null | – | "brief" (default: the analysis clipped) or "full" (the whole analysis). |
| id | string | yes | The storyline's id, exactly as returned. |
| limit | integer|null | – | Stories per page: default 10, at most 30. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
list_map_apps Map apps ~186
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 crisis, US elections and Mappit's own news atlas. Lists each app's views with the indicator code, levels, time grain, source, licence and a link that opens it. A view that draws places (nuclear reactors, data centers, AI campuses) or dated events names that dataset in events; one with no indicator (grain "site" or "event") has no statistic to fetch, so give its link. Use it to learn the indicator codes get_statistic and rank_regions take; a news-topic view's code carries its topic ("news_topic_share:world-conflict").
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| app | string|null | – | Optional app key, to list just that app. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
list_stories List stories ~345
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_happening, or stories on one topic. Filters: time window, topic, language, and source "crawler" for stories Mappit's own crawler read from the publishers. Returns a cursor for the next page. To find stories by words or meaning, use search_mappit.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| cursor | string|null | – | The cursor from the previous page, exactly as returned. |
| language | string|null | – | ISO 639-1 language code, or omit for every language. |
| limit | integer|null | – | Stories per page: default 20, at most 50. |
| place | string|null | – | Where: a place name, place id, country, US state or "lat,lon". Omit for the whole world. |
| sort | string|null | – | "newest" (default) or "trending" (Mappit's ranking; no cursor). |
| source | string|null | – | "any" (default) or "crawler" (only stories Mappit's crawler read from the publishers themselves). |
| topic | string|null | – | A topic slug or name ("science", "World & Conflict"); several separated by commas. |
| window | string|null | – | How far back: "24h", "72h", "7d" or "30d" (any number of hours or days up to 30 days). Default: 72h, as in whats_happening. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
list_threads List storylines ~200
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 topic or a time window. Use get_thread for one storyline's stories and Mappit's analysis; whats_happening gives the storylines around one place.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| cursor | string|null | – | The cursor from the previous page, exactly as returned. |
| limit | integer|null | – | How many: default 10, at most 30. |
| topic | string|null | – | A topic slug or name ("world-conflict", "Science"); several separated by commas. |
| window | string|null | – | Only storylines with news in this window. How far back: "24h", "72h", "7d" or "30d" (any number of hours or days up to 30 days). Default: 72h. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
rank_regions Rank regions ~294
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 continent. Each value carries its period; the answer names the source and licence. Indicator codes come from list_map_apps; a news topic share is "news_topic_share:<topic>" (or pass topic).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| indicator | string | yes | An indicator code from list_map_apps, e.g. "unemployment_rate" or "news_topic_share:crime-safety". |
| level | string | yes | One of: country, state, county, cd119, cd120 (congressional districts on the 2024 and 2026 lines). |
| limit | integer|null | – | How many: default 10, at most 50. |
| order | string|null | – | "desc" (highest first, the default) or "asc". |
| period | string|null | – | A period like "2024", "2026-08" or "2026-08-15". Default: the latest. |
| topic | string|null | – | For news_topic_share only: the topic slug from list_map_apps ("crime-safety"), when indicator does not carry it. |
| within | string|null | – | Optional scope: a country ("United States"), a US state (for counties or districts) or a continent ("Africa"). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_mappit Search Mappit ~278
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 about an idea even when the words differ, e.g. "tenants organizing against rent increases". Reads the whole archive unless given a window; optionally limit to one place. For the latest news in a place, use whats_happening.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer|null | – | Results per kind: default 10, at most 25. |
| mode | string|null | – | "keyword" (default) or "semantic" (by meaning; stories and storylines only). |
| place | string|null | – | Only results at this place (a place name, id or "lat,lon"). |
| q | string | yes | What to look for. |
| types | array|null | – | Which kinds of result: any of "stories", "threads", "locations", "places" (businesses), "pins", "collections". Default: stories, threads and locations. |
| window | string|null | – | How far back: "24h", "72h", "7d" or "30d" (any number of hours or days up to 30 days). Default: no limit (the whole archive). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
whats_happening What's happening ~393
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 ranking of the top stories (as on the map, each placed where it happened), the storylines running through the area, live conditions (earthquakes, air quality, weather) and a short profile of the place. Each story links to the publisher's article (source_url) and to Mappit (url). For what a place is rather than its news (its overview, publishers, radio and TV, companies), use get_location.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| detail | string|null | – | "brief" (default: 8 stories, 5 storylines) or "full" (15 stories and 10 storylines, with summaries). |
| language | string|null | – | Only stories in this language (ISO 639-1, e.g. "en"). Default: every language. |
| place | string|null | – | Where: a place name ("Seattle", "Portland, Maine", "Washington State"), a country ("France", "FR"), or "lat,lon" (e.g. "47.61,-122.33"). Omit for the whole world. |
| radius_km | number|null | – | Around a place or point, how far to look in km. Default 40 (a state: the whole state). |
| topic | string|null | – | Only stories on these topics: a topic slug or name such as "world-conflict" or "Science"; several separated by commas. get_mappit_info lists them. |
| window | string|null | – | How far back: "24h", "72h", "7d" or "30d" (any number of hours or days up to 30 days). Default: 72h. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the Mappit MCP server?
Mappit is a hosted endpoint at https://mappit.ai/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
remote · mappit.ai
claude mcp add --transport http ai-mappit-mappit 'https://mappit.ai/mcp'
What is the Mappit MCP server?
Mappit is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as ai.mappit/mappit. The world's news on a live map: place briefings, storylines, statistics, live layers, businesses. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://mappit.ai/mcp).
Is the Mappit MCP server safe to use?
Mappit scores 82 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.
What tools does the Mappit MCP server expose?
Mappit exposes 15 tools: whats_happening, list_stories, get_story, search_mappit, get_location, and 10 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 3,369 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Does the Mappit MCP server require authentication?
No. We connected to Mappit without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.
Is the Mappit MCP server still maintained?
Mappit is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.