# `ch.overpass/overpass` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/ch.overpass/overpass
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/ch.overpass/overpass
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: ch.overpass (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-11-04T13:17:38.078Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
overpass.ch
Overpass API on the full planet with history, plus geocoding and elevation. Needs an API key.
```

Scanned 2026-11-04T13:17:58.545Z over streamable-http.

**7 tools: 3 change things and 4 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 3 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 4 | allow |

## Exfil surface

No private-data -> untrusted-input -> outbound path in this server alone: no tool is tagged private-data or untrusted-input or outbound.

| Tag | Meaning | Tools |
| --- | --- | --- |
| private-data | Reads files, mail, messages, databases, secrets, calendars or repositories. | none |
| untrusted-input | Brings in text someone else can write: web pages, inbound email, messages, issues and comments. | none |
| outbound | Can carry data to people or systems: it sends, posts or publishes, or takes a recipient, channel or URL. | none |

## Findings

- **warn** Annotations that disagree with the tool in `overpass_query` ([annotation-conflict](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#annotation-conflict))

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "overpass_query" read-only (readOnlyHint: true), and its own name, description or input give the class "write".

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"destructiveHint":false,"idempotentHint":true,"openWorldHint":false}; The name "overpass_query" says "query": a word for reading.
```


## Changes things (3)

Creates or changes something that can be changed back. Claude Code: ask.

### `elevation`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Heights above sea level in metres for a list of points, negative at sea. Switzerland and Liechtenstein: swissALTI3D, a 2 m grid of the ground (credit "© swisstopo"). Elsewhere on land: Copernicus GLO-30, a 30 m grid of the surface that includes buildings and trees. At sea: GEBCO. Each point counts as one lookup; account_status shows the plan maximum per call.
```

### `elevation_profile`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Elevation profile along a path of two or more points: distance, ascent, descent, the lowest and the highest point, and up to 100 points along the way (distance from the start, height, lat, lon). The path is sampled every 90 m unless samples or interval_m is set. Each sample counts as one lookup, up to the plan maximum per call.
```

### `overpass_query`

- The name "overpass_query" says "query": a word for reading.
- The description's first verb is "run": a word for a change.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Runs an Overpass QL query on the full OpenStreetMap planet at overpass.ch (minutely updates) and returns the matching nodes, ways and relations with their tags.
Start the query with a settings line such as [out:json][timeout:25]; JSON is used when the query does not set [out:]. [timeout:N] stops the query after N s: at most 120 s through this tool, and the plan may allow less.
Patterns:
- Box (south,west,north,east): nwr["amenity"="cafe"](47.36,8.53,47.38,8.55); out center;
- Radius in metres around lat,lon: nwr["amenity"="pharmacy"](around:1000,47.3769,8.5417); out center;
- In a place: overpass_area_id from geocode, then area(id:3600051701)->.a; nwr["tourism"="hotel"](area.a); out center;
- By name (exact, local language): area["name"="Wien"]["admin_level"="4"]->.a;
- Count: out count;  Tags only: out tags;  At most 50: out center 50;  Lines with coordinates: out geom; (large)
- Regex, any case: ["name"~"^Bahnhof",i]
- By id: node(3470507586); out;  way(id:1,2,3); out tags;
- The map at a past date (Medium and Large plans): [date:"2015-01-01T00:00:00Z"] in the settings line.
The answer starts with counts and the date of the data, then one JSON object per element and line, up to max_chars characters. When it is cut, call again with offset, or narrow the query. Each call counts as one request of the plan, a cut one too. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
```

## Only reads (4)

Looks things up and changes nothing. Claude Code: allow.

### `account_status`

- The name "account_status" says "status": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
The plan of the API key of this connection and its use this month: Overpass requests used and left, when the allowance starts again, running queries, elevation lookups, geocoding requests, and the date of the data. It does not count as a request.
```

### `geocode`

- The description's first verb is "find": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Finds places, addresses and points of interest by name (geocoding). Partial text works, as for autocomplete. Each result has the name, the address, lat and lon, a bounding box (south, west, north, east), the OpenStreetMap element (osm), and for ways and relations an overpass_area_id to use in overpass_query as area(id:N). Languages: en, de, fr. One call counts as one geocoding request.
```

### `overpass_examples`

- The description's first verb is "search": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Searches the cookbook of overpass.ch: Overpass queries that were tested on the full planet, with explanations. Give a topic in a few words, such as "bakeries in a city", "hiking routes", "count buildings" or "changes since a date", and get the 5 closest examples with their query and a link. Free: it does not count as a request.
```

### `reverse_geocode`

- The description's first verb is "find": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Finds the address or place at a point (reverse geocoding). detail chooses what to return: the nearest address or object (address, the default), the street, the district, the city, the county, the state or the country that contains the point. The result has the same fields as those of geocode. One call counts as one geocoding request.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `overpass`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__overpass__overpass_examples",
      "mcp__overpass__geocode",
      "mcp__overpass__reverse_geocode",
      "mcp__overpass__account_status"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__overpass__overpass_query",
      "mcp__overpass__elevation",
      "mcp__overpass__elevation_profile"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```