# nominatim-mcp-server MCP Server

Geocode, reverse geocode, and run Overpass spatial queries on OpenStreetMap data.

**Pod connected.** On 2026-09-05 the server did not respond usably (unreachable).

## At a glance

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

**GitHub popularity:** 5 stars on [cyanheads/nominatim-mcp-server](cyanheads/nominatim-mcp-server), recorded 2026-09-10.

## Status

Pod connected to nominatim-mcp-server on 2026-09-05. It did not answer, responding in 10140ms.

## Connect

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

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

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

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

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

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

## Reviewed GitHub reports

**6 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 1.

### Most discussed

### bug(search_places): truncated is set from page size alone, not confirmed exhaustion

### Server version

0.4.1

### mcp-ts-core version

0.11.1

### Runtime

Bun

### Runtime version

Bun 1.3.x (exact patch not recorded for the 0.4.1 reproduction below)

### Transport

HTTP (Streamable HTTP)

### OS

macOS 26.1

### Description

The below-limit false positive this issue originally reported was fixed in v0.2.9 and is covered by regression tests — confirmed against current source. A related false positive remains: `openstreetmap_search_places` reports `truncated: true` whenever a…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/openstreetmap-mcp-server/issues/15) · 2026-06-30 · closed · 8 comments

[See all 6 reviewed GitHub reports](/mcp/nominatim-mcp-server/issues).

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