# Reported issues for openstreetmap-mcp-server Pod holds 7 of 7 GitHub reports that passed its relevance review. This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. Treat them as evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Back to [openstreetmap-mcp-server](/mcp/openstreetmap-mcp-server). ## Most discussed ### feat(query_nearby, query_bbox): key-existence and multi-tag conjunction filters ### Use case `openstreetmap_query_nearby` and `openstreetmap_query_bbox` accept one tag pair: `amenity=` or `tag_key` + `tag_value`. Finding any shop, or Italian restaurants, currently requires hand-written Overpass QL in `openstreetmap_query_raw`. ### Proposed behavior | Ask | Input | Overpass filter emitted | |:---|:---|:---| | Any shop | `tag_key: "shop"` (no `tag_value`) | `["shop"]` | | Italian restaurants | `amenity: "restaurant", filters: [{ key: "cuisine", value: "italian" }]`… [Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/openstreetmap-mcp-server/issues/65) · 2026-09-10 · closed · 2 comments ### feat(search_places): add viewbox locality bias ### Use case Place names and small features are often ambiguous outside a caller's study area. A hydrologist may need a creek inside one watershed, or an analyst may need a street or facility inside a municipal boundary. `countrycodes` is too coarse for this, and adding locality words to free-form text is less precise than Nominatim's geographic bias. The current workflow can discover an area with `openstreetmap_query_bbox`, but it cannot carry those bounds into `openstreetmap_search_places`.… [Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/openstreetmap-mcp-server/issues/62) · 2026-08-11 · closed · 2 comments ### bug(formatting): escape OSM text in Markdown content ### Server version 0.4.3 ### mcp-ts-core version 0.12.5 (`package.json` pin `^0.12.5`; behaviour re-verified with 0.12.8 resolved in `node_modules`) ### Runtime Bun ### Runtime version Bun 1.4.0 ### Transport HTTP (Streamable HTTP) ### OS macOS 26.1 ### Description Community-edited OSM text — Nominatim `display_name`/`name`/address values and Overpass tag keys/values/`members[].role` — is interpolated directly into Markdown-formatted `content[]` text across all six tools,… [Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/openstreetmap-mcp-server/issues/61) · 2026-08-11 · closed · 2 comments ### bug(query_raw): out:json/timeout directive checks miss whitespace spellings Overpass accepts ### Server version 0.4.6 ### mcp-ts-core version 0.12.8 ### Runtime Bun ### Runtime version Bun 1.4.0 ### Transport HTTP ### Description `openstreetmap_query_raw` (`src/mcp-server/tools/definitions/openstreetmap-query-raw.tool.ts`) validates and rewrites the `[out:json]`/`[timeout:N]` settings directives with three literal-string checks that all assume one exact spelling: - preflight: `ql.includes('[out:json]')` - timeout injection anchor: `ql.replace('[out:json]', ...)` - timeout… [Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/openstreetmap-mcp-server/issues/68) · 2026-09-11 · closed · 1 comment ### bug(overpass-service): a connection-level failure never faults the endpoint, so rotation returns to an unreachable host ### Server version 0.4.6 ### mcp-ts-core version 0.12.8 ### Runtime Bun ### Runtime version Bun 1.4.0 ### Transport HTTP ### Description A connection-level failure never faults the endpoint that produced it, so rotation can return to an unreachable host for the rest of the call. `postQuery` in `src/services/overpass/overpass-service.ts` wraps every `fetch` rejection that is not an `McpError`, not its own deadline, and not a caller abort as `serviceUnavailable('Network error… [Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/openstreetmap-mcp-server/issues/67) · 2026-09-11 · closed · 1 comment ### bug(search_places): countrycodes accepts non-alpha-2 tokens and Nominatim silently drops the filter ### Server version 0.4.6 ### mcp-ts-core version 0.12.8 ### Runtime Bun ### Runtime version Bun 1.4.0 ### Transport HTTP ### Description `countrycodes` is a bare `z.string()`. Nominatim only honors comma-separated ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes; any token it cannot parse is discarded and the search runs unfiltered, with HTTP 200 and no warning. So an alpha-3 code, a semicolon-separated list, or a country name silently widens the query to the whole world while the response still echoes the… [Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/openstreetmap-mcp-server/issues/66) · 2026-09-11 · closed · 1 comment ### feat(query_bbox, query_raw): scope a tag search to an OSM boundary — everything inside this city, park, or watershed The most common spatial question after "what is near X" is "what is inside Y": every school within Seattle's city limits, every spring inside a named watershed relation, every shop inside a park boundary. `openstreetmap_search_places` and `openstreetmap_reverse_geocode` return exactly the identifier needed — the boundary's `osm_type`/`osm_id` (`R237385` for Seattle) — but no tool accepts it as a search scope. `openstreetmap_query_bbox` over the boundary's `boundingbox` overcovers by design… [Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/openstreetmap-mcp-server/issues/71) · 2026-09-11 · open · 0 comments ## Most recent The remaining reports are on [the project's issue tracker](https://github.com/cyanheads/openstreetmap-mcp-server/issues).