About Opentripmap
Opentripmap is an MCP server for travel planning and place discovery, built around the OpenTripMap Places API. It offers nearby searches, place details, geoname lookup, and name suggestions, and can also run locally over stdio.
Key features
- 01Search nearby points of interest
- 02Retrieve place details and links
- 03Resolve place names to coordinates
- 04Suggest places by name prefix
Use cases
- 01Find museums and attractions near a city
- 02Get an address and description for a place
- 03Convert a city name into search coordinates
MCP support
It exposes OpenTripMap search, detail, geoname, and autosuggest tools to MCP clients. It can connect through the Pipeworx gateway or run as a local stdio MCP server.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://gateway.pipeworx.io/opentripmap/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http pipeworx-io-opentripmap https://gateway.pipeworx.io/opentripmap/mcp{"mcpServers":{"pipeworx-io-opentripmap":{"type":"http","url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/opentripmap/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"pipeworx-io-opentripmap":{"type":"http","url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/opentripmap/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"pipeworx-io-opentripmap":{"type":"http","url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/opentripmap/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"pipeworx-io-opentripmap":{"serverUrl":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/opentripmap/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
Details
From the project READMEmcp-opentripmap
OpenTripMap MCP — wraps the OpenTripMap Places API (dev.opentripmap.org)
Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1683+ live data sources.
Tools
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
opentripmap_places_radius | Find points of interest (tourist attractions, museums, restaurants, historic sites, etc.) within a radius of a lat/lon point. Returns matching POIs with xid, name, kind categories, distance from the center, and coordinates. Example: opentripmap_places_radius({ lat: 48.8566, lon: 2.3522, radius: 1000, kinds: "museums", limit: 20, _apiKey: "your-key" }) |
opentripmap_place_detail | Get full details for a single place by its OpenTripMap xid (obtained from opentripmap_places_radius or opentripmap_autosuggest). Returns name, address, categories, Wikidata/Wikipedia links, description extract, image, and website. Example: opentripmap_place_detail({ xid: "N123456", _apiKey: "your-key" }) |
opentripmap_geoname | Resolve a city / place name to geographic coordinates and metadata (lat, lon, population, country, timezone). Use this to turn a place name into a lat/lon you can feed to opentripmap_places_radius. Example: opentripmap_geoname({ name: "Paris", country: "FR", _apiKey: "your-key" }) |
opentripmap_autosuggest | Typeahead / partial-name search for POIs near a lat/lon point. Matches place names by prefix within a radius — good for "find places starting with X near here". Returns matching POIs with xid, name, kinds, distance, and coordinates. Example: opentripmap_autosuggest({ name: "louv", lat: 48.8566, lon: 2.3522, radius: 5000, _apiKey: "your-key" }) |
Quick Start
Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):
{
"mcpServers": {
"opentripmap": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/opentripmap/mcp"
}
}
}
What this endpoint actually serves
tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/opentripmap/mcp returns the tools in the table
above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx,
discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the
gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a
single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the
pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and
is the authoritative answer for a given day.
This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a
scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via
ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a
second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without
them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth,
connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.
Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:
{
"mcpServers": {
"pipeworx": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
}
}
}
Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1683+ data sources. The
only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx
reaches all of them from either one.
No MCP client? Call it over HTTP
This pack takes your own API key (_apiKey) — we don't front one for it, so there's no curl here that would run without it. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/opentripmap_places_radius. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.
Standalone (no gateway account)
This package also runs as a local stdio MCP server — no Pipeworx account, no gateway round-trip:
{
"mcpServers": {
"opentripmap": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-opentripmap"]
}
}
}
Or run it directly to confirm it starts:
npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-opentripmap
It speaks MCP over stdin/stdout and answers initialize/tools/list/tools/call
for only this pack's tools — none of the shared meta-tools the gateway
connection above adds. Same source, same tools, no ask_pipeworx routing.
Using with ask_pipeworx
Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:
ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Opentripmap data" })
The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.
More
License
MIT
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