Mapbox

Tools (22)

• place_details_tool

  Retrieve detailed information about a specific place using its Mapbox ID. Use after search_and_geocode_tool, category_search_tool, or reverse_geocode_tool to get additional details such as photos, opening hours, ratings, phone numbers, and website URLs. Requires the mapbox_id field from a previous search result.

• simplify_tool

  Simplify a LineString or Polygon by reducing the number of vertices while preserving the general shape. Uses the Douglas-Peucker algorithm. Useful for reducing file sizes and improving rendering performance. Works offline without API calls.

• bbox_tool

  Calculate the bounding box (extent) of any geometry. Returns the minimum and maximum longitude and latitude that encompass the geometry. Works offline without API calls.

• centroid_tool

  Calculate the geometric center (centroid) of a polygon or multipolygon. The centroid is the arithmetic mean position of all points in the shape. Works offline without API calls.

• midpoint_tool

  Calculate the geographic midpoint between two coordinates. Returns the point that is halfway between the two input points along the great circle path. Works offline without API calls.

• bearing_tool

  Calculate the bearing (compass direction) from one point to another. Returns bearing in degrees where 0° is North, 90° is East, 180° is South, and 270° is West. Works offline without API calls.

• area_tool

  Calculate the area of a polygon or multipolygon. Supports various units including square meters, kilometers, acres, and hectares. Works offline without API calls.

• buffer_tool

  Create a buffer zone (polygon) around a point, line, or polygon at a specified distance. Useful for proximity analysis, service areas, or creating zones of influence. Works offline without API calls.

• point_in_polygon_tool

  Test if a geographic point is inside a polygon. Useful for determining if a location is within a boundary, service area, or region. Handles polygons with holes. Works offline without API calls.

• distance_tool

  Calculate the distance between two geographic coordinates. Supports various units including kilometers, miles, meters, feet, and nautical miles. Uses the Haversine formula for accurate great-circle distance calculations. This tool works offline without requiring API calls.

• version_tool

  Get the current version information of the MCP server

• category_search_tool

  Return all places that match a category (industry, amenity, or NAICS‑style code). Use when the user asks for a type of place, plural or generic terms like 'museums', 'coffee shops', 'electric‑vehicle chargers', or when the query includes is‑a phrases such as 'any', 'all', 'nearby'. Do not use when a unique name or brand is provided. Supports both JSON and text output formats.

• directions_tool

  Fetches directions from Mapbox API based on provided coordinates and direction method. For route planning and distance calculations, use geometries="none" to get compact responses. Only request full geometry (geometries="geojson") when you need to visualize the route on a map or provide detailed turn-by-turn navigation instructions.

• isochrone_tool

  Computes areas that are reachable within a specified amount of time from a location, and returns the reachable regions as contours of Polygons or LineStrings in GeoJSON format that you can display on a map. Common use cases: - Show a user how far they can travel in X minutes from their current location - Determine whether a destination is within a certain travel time threshold - Compare travel ranges for different modes of transportation'

• map_matching_tool

  Snap GPS traces to roads using Mapbox Map Matching API. Takes noisy/inaccurate coordinate sequences (2-100 points) and returns clean routes aligned with actual roads, bike paths, or walkways. Useful for analyzing recorded trips, cleaning fleet tracking data, or processing fitness activity traces. Returns confidence scores, matched geometry, and optional traffic/speed annotations.

• matrix_tool

  Calculates travel times and distances between multiple points using Mapbox Matrix API.

• optimization_tool

  Find the optimal (shortest by travel time) route through a set of 2-12 coordinates. Solves the Traveling Salesman Problem to determine the best visiting order. Supports options for starting point, ending point, and whether to return to start.

• reverse_geocode_tool

  Find addresses, cities, towns, neighborhoods, postcodes, districts, regions, and countries around a specified geographic coordinate pair. Converts geographic coordinates (longitude, latitude) into human-readable addresses or place names. Use limit=1 for best results. This tool cannot reverse geocode businesses, landmarks, historic sites, and other points of interest that are not of the types mentioned. Supports both JSON and text output formats.

• static_map_image_tool

  Generates a static map image from Mapbox Static Images API. Supports center coordinates, zoom level (0-22), image size (up to 1280x1280), various Mapbox styles, and overlays (markers, paths, GeoJSON). Returns PNG for vector styles, JPEG for raster-only styles.

• search_and_geocode_tool

  Search for POIs, brands, chains, geocode cities, towns, addresses. Do not use for generic place types such as 'museums', 'coffee shops', 'tacos', etc, because category_search_tool is better for that. Setting a proximity point is strongly encouraged for more local results.

• resource_reader_tool

  Reads an MCP resource by URI. This tool is a fallback for clients that do not support the native MCP resource API. Supports reading category lists and other Mapbox resources. Use "mapbox://categories" for default categories or "mapbox://categories/{language}" for localized versions (e.g., "mapbox://categories/ja" for Japanese).

• category_list_tool

  [DEPRECATED: Use resource_reader_tool with "mapbox://categories" URI instead] Tool for retrieving the list of supported categories from Mapbox Search API. This tool is kept for backward compatibility with clients that do not support MCP resources. Use this when another function requires a list of categories. Returns all available category IDs by default. Only use pagination (limit/offset) if token usage optimization is required. If using pagination, make multiple calls to retrieve ALL categories