locate_ipLABSCO SUMMARY
Read it as the tutorial it is — the author's complaint about shallow examples is the reason it exists.
Their argument is that most Chinese-language material on building servers stops at copying the official sample, and that the real work is configuration, logging and error handling. The map server is the vehicle for showing that, which makes this more valuable as a reference implementation than as a dependency. If you want Gaode POI data in production, the official server is the one to use; if you want to see how a server should be structured, read this one.
What it is
A server over Gaode's mapping API, written as the worked example for a long engineering tutorial on building servers properly — structure, configuration, logging, error handling.
What you get
- Geolocation from an IP address, defaulting to the caller's own
- Nearby points of interest for a coordinate, filtered by type
Requirements
A Gaode Map API key. Documentation is in Chinese, and is written as a tutorial rather than a reference.
Setup effort
Build from source — get the source, then follow the project's own run instructions
USE CASES
01
Finding what is nearby
Coordinates to points of interest, by type.
02
Learning the engineering
The tutorial is the point; the server is the example.
2 tools
Listed in project docs. Your client may show a different list.
search_nearbyBEFORE YOU INSTALL
What to know first
Tools you get
2 tools named in the project's documentation.
Requires
- Python 3.10 or later
- Python MCP SDK 1.2.0
INSTALLATION
Connect your client
This project publishes no client configuration, so the entry for your client is yours to write.
Server setup
TERMINAL
uv run build_mcp
