GeoLens MCP server

GeoLens

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Turn scattered GIS files into a searchable catalog and shareable maps—on your own infrastructure.

GeoLens brings files, database tables, service snapshots, and remote assets into one spatial catalog you control. Search metadata, preview data, and keep every dataset’s origin visible. Build maps in the browser, publish links or embeds, and keep using QGIS and open standards alongside your team’s existing tools.

No install required. Browse the sample catalog and maps without an account, or sign in with Google, GitHub, or Microsoft to try the map builder. Demo data may be wiped at any time.

The map builder: every Manhattan building extruded to its true roof height and colored by the era it was built, the subway threading beneath, built from open data with scripts/seed-showcase.py

What you can do

• Find datasets: search one catalog across file uploads, database tables, and imported service snapshots.
• Build and share maps: compose multi-layer maps in the browser, then publish a link or embed them where people work.
• Use your existing tools: connect QGIS, ArcGIS, MapLibre, and scripts through OGC/STAC APIs and direct tile URLs.

git clone https://github.com/geolens-io/geolens.git && cd geolens
bash scripts/install.sh   # read it first: it writes .env, generates secrets, runs docker compose up -d
# Open http://localhost:8080, then log in with the credentials you chose

Or the one-line form, which runs the same script and pulls the prebuilt images:

curl -fsSL https://getgeolens.com/install.sh | sh

Images are published for linux/amd64 and linux/arm64. A fresh install runs six containers at about 1.3 GB resident.

Privacy, outbound connections, and data sources

GeoLens has no telemetry and phones home to nothing, except default basemap tiles from tiles.openfreemap.org until an administrator configures another provider. Features you opt into can make outbound calls: AI assist to your chosen OpenAI-compatible endpoint or Anthropic key, OAuth/OIDC sign-in, SMTP, remote or S3 data sources, and off-site backups.

Upload files, create datasets in the browser, or register tables already in GeoLens’s own PostGIS database without copying them. WFS, ArcGIS FeatureServer, and OGC API Features imports create one-shot copies; remote STAC assets remain live references. GeoLens records each dataset’s origin, indexes catalog metadata with pg_trgm for fuzzy search, and can add pgvector semantic ranking after you configure an embedding provider and enable semantic search.

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.