MCP tool
find_nearby
Overview of what is around a place or coordinate: nearby fuel stations, EV charging, parking, the nearest railway station and motorway junction, each with its distance.
The find_nearby tool is provided by ViaFrei. Install that server in your AI client and the assistant can call it directly.
Servers exposing find_nearby
From the publisher:Overview of what is around a place or coordinate: nearby fuel stations, EV charging, parking, the nearest railway station and motorway junction, each with its distance. Use when someone asks "what is around me" or "what is near <place>" — a broad look, not one category in depth. Do NOT use for a fuel grade's price (find_cheapest_fuel), charger/connector status (find_charging_station), parking kind
Install ViaFrei →Parameter Type Description placestring Where to look, as free text: a city ("München", "Munich"), a district or Kreis ("Kreis Fulda"), a Bundesland, a station or stop ("Hamburg Hbf"), a motorway junction ("AK Neufahrn"), or a street addres latnumber Latitude in WGS 84, e.g. 48.137. Use with lon when the caller already holds coordinates; otherwise use place. lonnumber Longitude in WGS 84, e.g. 11.576. Use with lat; otherwise use place. languagestring Set this on every call to the language the person is writing in: "en" if they wrote English, "de" if they wrote German. Do not leave it out: it defaults to German ("de"), which is only the fallback wh radius_kmnumber Search radius around place or lat+lon in kilometres (1–15, default 5). This tool answers "what is around me", not "search a wide area" — for that, use the specific tool with its own wider radius. categoriesarray Which categories to include: "fuel", "charging", "parking", "station" (railway station), "junction" (motorway junction). Omit for all five. Pass a subset only when the person named one — otherwise the
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