# geonames-mcp-server MCP Server

Search GeoNames places, walk admin hierarchies, reverse geocode, get postal codes and country info.

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## At a glance

**Source code:** [Open repository](https://github.com/cyanheads/geonames-mcp-server)

**GitHub popularity:** 1 stars on [cyanheads/geonames-mcp-server](cyanheads/geonames-mcp-server), recorded 2026-10-02.

## Status

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## Connect

Published as `@cyanheads/geonames-mcp-server` on npm. Runs locally.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "geonames-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/geonames-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

A hosted endpoint at `https://geonames.caseyjhand.com/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "geonames-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://geonames.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

Published as `@cyanheads/geonames-mcp-server` on npm. Runs locally.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "geonames-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/geonames-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Reviewed GitHub reports

**11 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review.** This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 2.

### Most discussed

### bug(geonameId): ids above 2147483647 pass validation and fail upstream with an unrelated hint

### Server version

0.1.0

### mcp-ts-core version

0.13.10

### Runtime

Node.js

### Runtime version

Node 26.5.0

### Transport

HTTP (Streamable HTTP)

### Description

The shared `geonameId` input accepts up to 10 digits (`^[1-9]\d{0,9}$`), but GeoNames parses the id as a 32-bit integer and answers anything above 2147483647 with status 14. `geonames_get_place`, `geonames_get_hierarchy`, and `geonames_get_children` then fail with `upstream_rejected_parameter`, GeoNames' bare `For input…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/geonames-mcp-server/issues/2) · 2026-10-01 · closed · 2 comments

### Most recent

### bug(GeoNamesService): a cancelled shared request makes every waiter start its own, and a cancelled waiter keeps waiting

### Server version

0.1.1

### mcp-ts-core version

0.13.10

### Runtime

Bun

### Runtime version

1.4.2

### Transport

stdio

### Description

`GeoNamesService.#singleFlight` lets identical in-flight requests on one account share a single upstream call. When the caller that started the shared request is cancelled, every caller waiting on it falls through and starts its own request, so N waiters spend N credits where one restart would do. A waiter cancelled while it waits is also not…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/geonames-mcp-server/issues/12) · 2026-10-02 · open · 0 comments

[See all 11 reviewed GitHub reports](/mcp/geonames-mcp-server/issues).

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```json
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  "query": "geonames-mcp-server",
  "limit": 5
}
```

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