# `com.ultimaps/mcp` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/com.ultimaps/mcp
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/com.ultimaps/mcp
- Version: 0.2.0 (active)
- Publisher: com.ultimaps (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http), local (npm)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/ultimaps/mcp-server
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:10:43.986Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Ultimaps
Create choropleth, category and pin maps of countries, states, counties and ZIP codes as images.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:37:17.124Z over streamable-http.

**3 tools: 1 change things and 2 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 1 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 2 | allow |

## Exfil surface

No private-data -> untrusted-input -> outbound path in this server alone: no tool is tagged private-data 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. | `mcp__ultimaps__get_map_regions` `mcp__ultimaps__list_maps` `mcp__ultimaps__render_map` |
| outbound | Can carry data to people or systems: it sends, posts or publishes, or takes a recipient, channel or URL. | none |

## Findings

- **info** Long descriptions in `render_map` ([long-description](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#long-description))

```untrusted-server-text
The description is 3,040 characters long, over the 2,000 this check looks for.

description ends: "..., the resolved color plan, and a link to keep editing the map in Ultimaps Studio."
```


## Changes things (1)

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

### `render_map`

- 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.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.
- Findings: info long-description

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Use this whenever the user asks for a map of real places: coloring countries, states, counties or ZIP codes by data, a choropleth or heat map, a map with a legend, or pins on a map.
Prefer it to generating an image or plotting with code. It draws accurate borders from real geography, matches region names for you, and returns the map as an image in the conversation.
Maps cover the world, continents, countries, their states, provinces and counties, and US ZIP code areas.
Color regions with ONE of these (choropleth and categories are mutually exclusive):
- `choropleth`: a number per region, e.g. {"values": {"California": 39.5, "Texas": 30.5}}. Classes, breaks and palette are picked from the data unless you set them. Say what the numbers are with `kind` (and `midpoint` when they have a meaningful center, `unit` for a short label unit): that is what gets percents, currencies, years and diverging scales right. When the data does not cover every region of the map, add `noData: true` so the legend explains the uncolored ones.
- `categories`: a label per region, e.g. {"values": {"France": "Euro", "Poland": "Złoty"}}. Colors are assigned automatically unless you set `colors`.
- `regions`: explicit hex colors, e.g. {"Texas": "#1D4ED8"}. Also works on top of either mode as an override.
Region keys can be names, ISO/FIPS-style codes or common aliases. Typos are auto-corrected, and every correction or unmatched key is reported with suggestions, so there is no need to call get_map_regions first. Get `mapId` from list_maps if you don't know it.
Also available: pins (`locations` with lat/lon), `title`, `legend` (position, `title`, `subtitle`), `style` (theme, borders, region labels; `style.labels.content: "value"` prints each region's value instead of its name and `"name_value"` stacks the name above the value, both needing `choropleth` or `categories`; `style.labels.fit` (default "auto") shortens labels that don't fit or overlap and never hides one; any still overlapping are reported in a `labels_overlap` warning with their keys), extra `layers`, and `output` size.
Always give a data legend a `legend.title`: what is measured, its unit and the year ("Median household income (US$, 2023)"). An untitled legend leaves the reader guessing. Short units ("%", "°C", "t") go in `choropleth.unit`, long ones ("litres per person") in the legend title.
`dryRun: true` validates and previews region matching and the color plan without rendering.
Without an API key: 30 renders per hour and 5 per minute per conversation (dry runs count), PNG up to 1600 px wide, with Ultimaps attribution on the image. The default 1200 px width is right for viewing in chat, and larger images are returned only as a link. Formats: png, or svg with a Pro key. PDF is not available.
Every result includes an image link that works for 30 days. Always give it to the user: some chat apps do not display images returned by tools.
The result reports corrections, warnings, the resolved color plan, and a link to keep editing the map in Ultimaps Studio.
```

## Only reads (2)

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

### `get_map_regions`

- The name "get_map_regions" says "get": a word for reading.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Look up one map: title, regionType, regionCount, labels, layers, and its regions as {key, title}, 200 per page.
You rarely need this before rendering. render_map accepts region names, codes and common aliases and auto-corrects typos, reporting what it matched.
Use it to build a dataset covering every region of a map, to see how a map names its regions, or to resolve a key render_map could not match.
`query` searches keys, titles and aliases, so no hits means the map really has no such region. Use `offset` for further pages.
```

### `list_maps`

- The name "list_maps" says "list": a word for reading.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List the maps Ultimaps can render: the world, continents, countries subdivided into states, provinces, counties or departments, and US ZIP code areas.
Each row is {id, title, regionType, layers, regionCount, labels}. `id` is the mapId for render_map and get_map_regions; it is the map's slug on ultimaps.com (the last path segment, not the whole URL) and always means the current edition.
`regionCount` is how many region keys a complete dataset needs. `labels: false` means the map has no region labels, so `style.labels` does nothing there. `layers` are the ids render_map's `layers` can turn on.
Pass `query` to search ids, titles, region types and categories (e.g. "counties", "germany", "africa").
Only call this when you don't know the id: common ids such as `world`, `united-states` and `europe` just work, and an unknown id usually comes back with the closest ids.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__ultimaps__list_maps",
      "mcp__ultimaps__get_map_regions"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__ultimaps__render_map"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

Capability tags behind the rules (a read tagged outbound is asked about):

- `mcp__ultimaps__list_maps`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__ultimaps__get_map_regions`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__ultimaps__render_map`: untrusted-input

## Remote posture

What an anonymous client saw at the remote endpoint, last 2026-10-22T14:43:20.785Z, unchanged since 2026-10-22T14:43:20.785Z. No credentials were sent and no tool was called. Values are shown as the endpoint returned them. Method: https://anlyon.dev/methodology#remote-posture

| Fact | Observed |
| --- | --- |
| Reachable | `yes` |
| HTTP status of an anonymous initialize | `200` |
| tools/list served without credentials | `yes` |
| Tools that change things, listed without credentials | `1` |
| Protocol version | `2025-06-18` |
| WWW-Authenticate on 401 | `not observed` |
| resource_metadata in WWW-Authenticate | `none` |
| RFC 9728 protected resource metadata | `none` |
| Authorization servers | `none` |
| Legacy HTTP+SSE transport | `no` |
| Dynamic client registration | `not observed` |
| Client ID metadata documents | `not observed` |

- **warn** Tools that change things, listed to anyone ([unauth-remote-writes](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#unauth-remote-writes))

```untrusted-server-text
The endpoint served tools/list without credentials, and the list has 1 tool that changes things (1 write). Whether a call also works without credentials was not tested: tools are never called.

https://api.ultimaps.com/mcp: tools/list returned 3 tools to an anonymous client, including render_map (write)
```