Place names repeat, and a single result is a guess. Asking for several and reading `type` and `importance` is how you tell the city from the street or the village of the same name — that is the whole reason those fields come back. Everything else here is deliberately absent: one tool, no key, no configuration.
A geocoder built on OpenStreetMap's Nominatim service. Give it a city, an address or a place description and it returns latitude and longitude — plus the matched display name, place type, importance ranking and bounding box.
- `mcp_geocoding_get_coordinates` takes a `location` string — a city, a country-qualified name, or a street address
- An optional `limit` returns several candidates instead of one; the default is 1 and the maximum is 10
- Each result carries `latitude`, `longitude`, `display_name`, `place_id`, `type`, `class`, `importance` and a `bounding_box`
- The `importance` and `type` fields are what let you tell a city apart from a street of the same name
- Global coverage, since it is querying OpenStreetMap data
Nothing but a Python runner: `uvx geocode-mcp` is the documented install, and the client entry is `uvx` with `geocode-mcp` as its argument. Also installable with `pip install geocode-mcp`. Published as geocode-mcp version 0.2.0, built for Python 3.12+. No API key — Nominatim is free to use.
One command — uvx geocode-mcp