📌Overview

Purpose: The Mapbox MCP Server provides a set of tools and APIs to facilitate navigation and search functionalities using the Mapbox API.

Overview: The Mapbox MCP Server is designed to enhance location-based services by providing navigation tools for route planning and distance calculations, as well as search functionalities that enable users to find places and convert addresses to coordinates.

Key Features:

• Navigation Tools:
  • Includes capabilities like mapbox_directions and mapbox_matrix which allow users to compute routes and travel matrices between coordinates and places, supporting various travel profiles (e.g., driving, walking).
• Search Tools:
  • Provides mapbox_geocoding to facilitate the searching of places and conversion of addresses into geographic coordinates, enhancing location retrieval with filters and options for fuzzy matching.

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Mapbox MCP Server

MCP Server for the Mapbox API.

Features

Navigation Tools

1. mapbox_directions

   • Get directions between coordinates
   • Inputs:
     • coordinates ({latitude: number, longitude: number}[])
     • profile (optional): "driving-traffic", "driving", "walking", "cycling"
   • Returns: route details with steps, distance, duration

2. mapbox_directions_by_places

   • Get directions between places using their names
   • Inputs:
     • places (string[]): Array of place names
     • profile (optional): "driving-traffic", "driving", "walking", "cycling"
     • language (optional): Two-letter language code (e.g., "zh", "en")
   • Returns:
     • Geocoding results for each place
     • Route details with steps, distance, duration
     • Any errors that occurred during processing

3. mapbox_matrix

   • Calculate travel time and distance matrices between coordinates
   • Inputs:
     • coordinates ({latitude: number, longitude: number}[])
     • profile (optional): "driving", "walking", "cycling"
     • annotations (optional): "duration", "distance", "duration,distance"
     • sources (optional): Indices of source coordinates
     • destinations (optional): Indices of destination coordinates
   • Returns: Matrix of durations and/or distances between points

4. mapbox_matrix_by_places

   • Calculate travel time and distance matrices between places using their names
   • Inputs:
     • places (string[]): Array of place names (2-25 places)
     • profile (optional): "driving", "walking", "cycling"
     • annotations (optional): "duration", "distance", "duration,distance"
     • language (optional): Two-letter language code
     • sources (optional): Indices of source places
     • destinations (optional): Indices of destination places
   • Returns:
     • Geocoding results for each place
     • Matrix of durations and/or distances
     • Any errors that occurred during processing

Search Tools

1. mapbox_geocoding
   • Search for places and convert addresses into coordinates
   • Inputs:
     • searchText (string): The place or address to search for
     • limit (optional): Maximum number of results (1-10)
     • types (optional): Filter by place types (country, region, place, etc.)
     • language (optional): Two-letter language code
     • fuzzyMatch (optional): Enable/disable fuzzy matching
   • Returns: Detailed location information including coordinates and properties

Claude Desktop Integration

Add this configuration to your Claude Desktop config file (typically located at ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mapbox-mcp-server": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/mapbox-mcp-server/build/index.js"],
      "env": {
        "MAPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN": "your-api-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Setup

Prerequisites

• Node.js 16 or higher
• TypeScript 4.5 or higher
• A valid Mapbox API key

API Key

Get a Mapbox API key by following the instructions at https://console.mapbox.com/account/access-tokens/.

Set your API key as an environment variable:

export MAPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN=your_api_key_here

Rate Limits

• Directions API: 300 requests per minute
• Matrix API:
  • 60 requests per minute for driving/walking/cycling
  • 30 requests per minute for driving-traffic
• Geocoding API: 600 requests per minute

Deployment

Structure

In mapbox-mcp-server, the server's handlers are managed as follows:

• src/server/handlers/base.ts: Base class for all handlers
• src/server/registry.ts: Registry for all handlers
• src/server/main.ts: Main entry point for the server

Each feature module follows this structure:

src/
├── types/          # Type definitions
├── schemas/        # Zod schemas for validation
├── tools/
│   ├── definitions/  # Tool definitions
│   └── handlers/     # Tool implementations
└── server/
    └── handlers/     # Handler classes

Error Handling

All tools implement comprehensive error handling including:

• Input validation errors
• API request failures
• Rate limit errors
• Service-specific errors (e.g., no routes found, invalid coordinates)

License

This MCP server is licensed under the MIT License. You are free to use, modify, and distribute the software under the terms of the MIT License. See the LICENSE file in the project repository for details.