mapsdata

mapsdata

mapsdata is a small local bridge to the hosted HasData Google Maps MCP server, which returns Google Maps data as JSON. Search for places by keyword — optionally around GPS coordinates — and pull back the local pack with ratings, hours, phone and website; then follow a placeId into full place details, its reviews, its photo gallery, and its latest posts and offers. A sixth tool lists every review one Local Guide contributor has written, for reviewer-profile and trust checks.

The bridge keeps no place data of its own. It serves the upstream server's tool list locally, exactly as captured from the live endpoint, and forwards each tool call upstream, returning the result untouched. Everything in the surface is read-only over data Google Maps shows publicly for places and reviewers: there is no posting, messaging, or booking tool in it.

Tools

• hasdata_google_maps_search_performMapSearch — run a Google Maps search. Required: q. Optional: domain, gl, hl, start (offset paging), and ll (GPS coordinates as @lat,lng,zoomz; required when start is present). Returns the local pack list with placeId, name, address, coordinates, rating, review count, price level, categories, phone, website, hours, and thumbnail.
• hasdata_google_maps_place_getPlaceDetails — fetch one place in full. Required: placeId. Optional: domain, hl, and fetchWebResults (also returns the place panel's web results). Returns name, address, coordinates, phone, website, categories, hours, rating, review count, price level, photos, attributes, and plus code.
• hasdata_google_maps_reviews_getMapReviews — paginated reviews for one place, by dataId or placeId. Optional: hl, sortBy (mostRelevant, newestFirst, ratingHigh, ratingLow), topicId filter, and nextPageToken. Returns author, rating, text, dates, likes, owner responses, photos, and local-guide flags.
• hasdata_google_maps_photos_getMapPhotos — the photo gallery of one place, by dataId or placeId, paginated with nextPageToken and filterable by categoryId. Returns each photo's image URL and thumbnail.
• hasdata_google_maps_posts_getMapPosts — the latest Google Maps posts (offers, events, announcements) for one place, by dataId or placeId, with hl language targeting. Returns per-post title, description, image, posted date, link, and business name.
• hasdata_google_maps_contributor_reviews_getMapReviews — every review authored by one Local Guide. Required: contributorId. Optional: hl, gl, num (10–200 per page), and nextPageToken. Returns per-review rating, text, date, place name and address, photos, and owner responses.

Configuration

• HASDATA_GOOGLE_MAPS_MCP_URL (optional) — override the upstream endpoint. Defaults to https://mcp.hasdata.com/mcp?apis=google_maps (the query string is part of the pinned URL). (The override hook is this rebuild's own labelled reconstruction.)
• HASDATA_API_KEY (optional) — when set, every upstream request carries an x-api-key: <key> header, for the caller's own HasData API key. When it is not set, no key header is sent. (The header name and the env name are pinned by the original's registry record; forwarding the key from this env var is a labelled reconstruction — the original surface was captured keyless.)

Forwarding mechanics

On the first tool call the client opens a streamable HTTP session with the upstream: a JSON-RPC initialize request (protocolVersion 2025-03-26, clientInfo name mapsdata), then a notifications/initialized notification, then the tools/call request carrying the caller's arguments unchanged. When the upstream answers initialize with an Mcp-Session-Id header, that value rides on every later request of the session, which is reused for the life of the process. Replies may arrive as plain JSON or as server-sent events; both are read.

Successful upstream results pass through verbatim, including any isError flag the upstream sets. Failures — a JSON-RPC error, a non-2xx status, an unreadable response, or a request that cannot be completed — come back as an isError result whose text starts with mapsdata error: (this rendering is this rebuild's own labelled reconstruction).

CLI

Each tool is also a subcommand taking one JSON argument string:

npx @reneturcios/mapsdata hasdata_google_maps_search_performMapSearch '{"q":"coffee near Union Square","hl":"en"}'
npx @reneturcios/mapsdata hasdata_google_maps_place_getPlaceDetails '{"placeId":"ChIJN1t_tDeuEmsRUsoyG83frY4"}'
npx @reneturcios/mapsdata --version

Exit codes: 0 on success, 1 on an isError result, 2 on a usage error.

MCP server

npx -y @reneturcios/mapsdata mcp

MCP client config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mapsdata": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@reneturcios/mapsdata", "mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Docker

docker run -i ghcr.io/cloudcorprecords/mapsdata
docker run --rm ghcr.io/cloudcorprecords/mapsdata --version

The container's default command is mcp, so the first form is a stdio MCP server; any other arguments reach the CLI normally.

Development

npm install
npm run build
npm test
npm run dev

The test suite runs entirely against a stubbed JSON-RPC upstream — no live network calls.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.