Overture Places MCP server

@pipeworx/overture-places

Business and point-of-interest locations in the United States and the United Kingdom, from the Overture Maps Foundation places theme. Each place carries a name, category, existence confidence score, street address, websites, phones, emails, social links, brand and contributing source record ids. Use it to find places near a point or in a city, to map every location of a company by its website domain, and to count what is in an area.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1764+ live data sources. This is an independent, unofficial integration — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by the upstream provider.

Tools

businesses matching a name and/or category. Results are ranked by match quality and then by distance (for near) or confidence. Example: the Starbucks branches within 3 km of downtown Austin.

• placessearch(name?, category?, near{lat,lon} + radiusm | bbox | city + country [+ region], minconfidence?, includeclosed?, limit?):

every location whose website is on a company's domain, which gives that company's physical footprint. Subdomains and paths fold to the registrable domain (https://www.starbucks.com/store-locator → starbucks.com). Returns the total plus counts by country and by state/region.

• placesbydomain(domain, country?, region?, minconfidence?, includeclosed?, limit?):

the count of places in an area, a breakdown by category, and the highest-confidence places.

• placesinarea(near + radiusm | bbox | city + country, category?, minconfidence?, include_closed?, limit?):

Every response starts with attribution, a source block (licence, release, terms URL) and dataasof, which is the Overture release the answer came from (for example 2026-09-23.1).

Confidence

Overture gives every place an existence confidence from 0 to 1 and calls it "the primary tool for filtering potential junk data". By default this pack hides places below 0.7, and places marked permanentlyclosed. In the measured sample the distribution breaks sharply at 0.7, and the rows below it were mostly junk. The default keeps about 68% of places. Every place shows its confidence, and every response states the threshold it applied and how many places it hid (hiddenbyfilters). To see everything, pass minconfidence: 0 and include_closed: true.

Coverage and limits

found:false, reason:"outside_coverage" and lists the covered countries.

• Countries: US and GB. An area or city outside them returns

first. That is about 250,000 places. For a larger area (a whole metro searched by name), the response sets complete:false and explains in coveragewarning what was not searched. placesinarea still gives exact or bounded totals from its index. Narrow the area with near + radiusm for a complete answer.

• One call scans at most 64 data blocks, nearest the centre of the area

region field is consistent in the US (state codes; full state names are accepted too) but inconsistent in the UK, so leave region out for UK cities. A name that matches several places (several Springfields) uses the largest and lists the others in otherplaceswiththisname.

• City lookup resolves a locality name from the addresses in the data. The

builders and listing sites (instagram.com, linktr.ee, wixsite.com, yelp.com and similar) identify no single company. placesbydomain refuses them with reason:"platform_domain".

• Platform domains are not indexed. Social profiles, link pages, site

are indexed. The response always gives the true total in locationslistingdomain and says when the cap applied.

• Very large domains: the 5,000 highest-confidence locations per domain

rate, and low property completeness". Confidence filtering helps with junk but does not remove duplicates.

• Overture warns that the theme "is known to contain duplicates, a high junk

Auth

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.