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OpenStreetMap

Geocode places, reverse-geocode coordinates and query map features near a point or within an area.

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About this source

Nominatim geocoding (place or address to coordinates and back) and Overpass spatial queries: everything within a radius of a point, everything inside a bounding box, or raw Overpass QL for advanced questions. Useful for geography, urban planning, public-health mapping and any study that needs distances, amenities or built-environment context.

Questions you can ask OpenStreetMap

Type them into Kahubi’s chat once the source is connected.

How many pharmacies are within 1 km of each of these five hospital addresses?

What comes back: Geocoded coordinates and counts of mapped features from OpenStreetMap.

Geocode this list of school addresses in Malmö.

What comes back: Coordinates with the matched address for each, so mismatches are easy to spot.

What the assistant can do with it

The 6 tools this server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.

  • openstreetmap_search_places

    Geocode a place name or address to coordinates and structured place data via Nominatim.

  • openstreetmap_reverse_geocode

    Convert a latitude/longitude pair to the nearest address or named place via Nominatim.

  • openstreetmap_lookup_objects

    Fetch the Nominatim address record for up to 50 known OSM objects by ID, each prefixed N (node), W (way), or R (relation), e.g.

  • openstreetmap_query_nearby

    Find OSM features within a radius of a point via the Overpass API, the tool for "what is near X?" questions.

  • openstreetmap_query_bbox

    Find OSM features inside an area via the Overpass API, for surveys of everything in a region (openstreetmap_query_nearby covers proximity to a point).

  • openstreetmap_query_raw

    Run an arbitrary Overpass QL query for anything the convenience tools cannot express: multi-type or union queries, relation membership, historical queries, regex tag matching.

Good to know

  • Community server. An open-source server maintained by the MCP community. Kahubi tests it with live queries before listing it and health-checks it regularly.
  • Beta. The server works, but answers can be slower and its tools may still change.
  • Cited, checkable answers. Results are treated as retrieved material and cited with the source’s own identifiers, so you can open every record the answer relied on.
  • Your files stay private. Only the search the assistant writes for your question is sent to OpenStreetMap.

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