Amap Navigator MCP server

XiaozhiMCP-MapNAVI is a powerful MCP (Model Context Protocol) tool that integrates with Amap API services, enabling AI language models to access geographic information, weather data, and route planning functionality. This integration extends AI capabilities beyond simple text generation by allowing interaction with external map services.

Features

• 🗺️ Geographic Encoding - Convert addresses to latitude and longitude coordinates
• 🌤️ Weather Information - Retrieve weather data for specific cities or regions
• 🚗 Driving Route Planning - Plan driving routes between two points
• 🔄 Automatic Reconnection - WebSocket connection recovery mechanism with exponential backoff
• 🔒 Secure Communication - Secure data transmission via WebSocket

Installation

To set up the MCP-MapNAVI server, follow these steps:

1. Install the required dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Set up the necessary environment variables:

export MCP_ENDPOINT=<your_mcp_endpoint>

Usage

Running the Map Navigation Example

To start using the map navigation functionality, run:

python mcp_pipe.py map.py

Creating Your Own MCP Tools

You can create your own MCP tools by following this pattern:

from mcp.server.fastmcp import FastMCP

mcp = FastMCP("YourToolName")

@mcp.tool()
def your_tool(parameter: str) -> dict:
    """Tool description here"""
    # Your implementation
    return {"success": True, "result": result}

if __name__ == "__main__":
    mcp.run(transport="stdio")

System Requirements

To run the MCP-MapNAVI server, you need:

• Python 3.7 or higher
• Required Python packages:
  • websockets >= 11.0.3
  • python-dotenv >= 1.0.0
  • mcp >= 1.8.1
  • pydantic >= 2.11.4

Common Use Cases

The MCP-MapNAVI server is particularly useful for:

• Geographic information retrieval
• Weather data queries
• Route planning and navigation
• Location-based services
• Travel assistance and recommendations
• Geographic data analysis

By integrating these capabilities into AI language models, you can create more contextually aware and helpful interactive experiences.

How to install this MCP server

For Claude Code

To add this MCP server to Claude Code, run this command in your terminal:

claude mcp add-json "amap-navigator" '{"command":"python","args":["mcp_pipe.py","map.py"]}'

See the official Claude Code MCP documentation for more details.

For Cursor

There are two ways to add an MCP server to Cursor. The most common way is to add the server globally in the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file so that it is available in all of your projects.

If you only need the server in a single project, you can add it to the project instead by creating or adding it to the .cursor/mcp.json file.

Adding an MCP server to Cursor globally

To add a global MCP server go to Cursor Settings > Tools & Integrations and click "New MCP Server".

When you click that button the ~/.cursor/mcp.json file will be opened and you can add your server like this:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "amap-navigator": {
            "command": "python",
            "args": [
                "mcp_pipe.py",
                "map.py"
            ]
        }
    }
}

Adding an MCP server to a project

To add an MCP server to a project you can create a new .cursor/mcp.json file or add it to the existing one. This will look exactly the same as the global MCP server example above.

How to use the MCP server

Once the server is installed, you might need to head back to Settings > MCP and click the refresh button.

The Cursor agent will then be able to see the available tools the added MCP server has available and will call them when it needs to.

You can also explicitly ask the agent to use the tool by mentioning the tool name and describing what the function does.

For Claude Desktop

To add this MCP server to Claude Desktop:

1. Find your configuration file:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
• Linux: ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

2. Add this to your configuration file:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "amap-navigator": {
            "command": "python",
            "args": [
                "mcp_pipe.py",
                "map.py"
            ]
        }
    }
}

3. Restart Claude Desktop for the changes to take effect