Maps Grounding Lite

Official

search_places, weather lookup, compute routes

Details

Vendor

Google

Type

Official

Category

Contracts, messaging and maps

Endpoint

https://mapstools.googleapis.com/mcp

Auth

API key or OAuth

Transport

streamable-http

Spec version

2025-11-25 (from our live check)

Code repo

None published

Official MCP registry

Listed

com.googleapis.mapstools/mcp

Tools

search_places, weather lookup, compute routes

Our live check

Result

Live, checked Oct 4, 2026

What came back

initialize ok: StatelessServer scaffolding on HTTPServer2

Publisher

Matches the vendor

mapstools.googleapis.com

Docs read

Oct 3, 2026

We send one MCP initialize call and nothing else. A 401 that points to OAuth counts as live: the server answers, and you sign in to use it.

Notes

Useful for service-area and drive-time tasks.

Source

https://developers.google.com/maps/ai/grounding-lite