# `io.github.cyanheads/openstreetmap-mcp-server` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.cyanheads/openstreetmap-mcp-server
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.cyanheads/openstreetmap-mcp-server
- Version: 0.6.1 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.cyanheads (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http), local (npm)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/cyanheads/openstreetmap-mcp-server
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:28:53.733Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Geocode, reverse geocode, and run Overpass spatial queries on OpenStreetMap data.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:17:00.846Z over streamable-http.

**6 tools: 2 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 | 2 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 4 | allow |

## Findings

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

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

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"idempotentHint":true,"openWorldHint":true}; The description's first verb is "convert": a word for a change.
```

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

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

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


## Changes things (2)

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

### `openstreetmap_query_raw`

- The name "openstreetmap_query_raw" 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
Run an arbitrary Overpass QL query for anything the convenience tools cannot express: multi-type or union queries, relation membership, historical queries, regex tag matching. The query must include [out:json], e.g. "[out:json][timeout:15];node[\"natural\"=\"peak\"](47.5,-122.5,47.7,-122.2);out body;"; scope to an OSM boundary with rel(<id>);map_to_area->.a; or way(<id>);map_to_area->.a; then (area.a) on each statement (the 2400000000 way-area offset is gone since Overpass 0.7.57; openstreetmap_query_bbox takes the same scope as within, without QL). The response is one page: page with limit and offset, read totalFound and truncated for the whole match, and an element over max_element_bytes arrives with its members, nodes or geometry array withheld whole and withheldNotice saying how to fetch it back. For plain "near X" or "in this area" questions use openstreetmap_query_nearby or openstreetmap_query_bbox.
```

### `openstreetmap_reverse_geocode`

- The description's first verb is "convert": 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
Convert a latitude/longitude pair to the nearest address or named place via Nominatim. The result is the closest indexed OSM object at the requested zoom (18 building, 10 city), which in dense areas can be a neighbouring feature rather than the one containing the coordinate; proximity and layer pick it, never an OSM attribute tag, so find features by tag with openstreetmap_query_nearby, openstreetmap_query_bbox, or openstreetmap_query_raw.
```

## Only reads (4)

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

### `openstreetmap_lookup_objects`

- The name "openstreetmap_lookup_objects" says "lookup": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Fetch the Nominatim address record for known OSM objects by ID, 50 per call with any more returned under deferred_ids, each prefixed N (node), W (way), or R (relation), e.g. "N240109189". Use it for IDs already in hand from openstreetmap_query_nearby or openstreetmap_query_bbox; it returns only objects named in osm_ids and lists those with no Nominatim record under not_found (Nominatim skips unnamed and non-place objects, so such an ID may still exist). It cannot select by tag, so discover objects with those tools or openstreetmap_query_raw first.
```

### `openstreetmap_query_bbox`

- The name "openstreetmap_query_bbox" says "query": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Find OSM features inside an area via the Overpass API, for surveys of everything in a region (openstreetmap_query_nearby covers proximity to a point). Scope with the four corner fields south, west, north, east, or with within and a single OSM boundary ref such as a city relation or a park way, which searches the boundary polygon itself instead of an overcovering box; never both. Filter with amenity, or with tag_key plus an optional tag_value, ANDing up to five more filters; every feature returns with its full OSM tag set (no extratags flag here).
```

### `openstreetmap_query_nearby`

- The name "openstreetmap_query_nearby" says "query": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Find OSM features within a radius of a point via the Overpass API, the tool for "what is near X?" questions. Filter with amenity, or with tag_key plus an optional tag_value, ANDing up to five more filters; every feature returns with its full OSM tag set (no extratags flag here), sorted nearest-first by distance_meters, with nodes covering standalone POIs and ways covering buildings and areas.
```

### `openstreetmap_search_places`

- The name "openstreetmap_search_places" says "search": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Geocode a place name or address to coordinates and structured place data via Nominatim. Send either a free-form query or the structured address fields (street, city, county, state, country, postalcode), never both; results are the best-ranked matches, not every matching object, and matching never uses an OSM attribute tag, so filter or enumerate by tag with openstreetmap_query_nearby, openstreetmap_query_bbox, or openstreetmap_query_raw.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__openstreetmap__openstreetmap_search_places",
      "mcp__openstreetmap__openstreetmap_lookup_objects",
      "mcp__openstreetmap__openstreetmap_query_nearby",
      "mcp__openstreetmap__openstreetmap_query_bbox"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__openstreetmap__openstreetmap_reverse_geocode",
      "mcp__openstreetmap__openstreetmap_query_raw"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```