MCP tool
find_place
Looks up a place name and returns every match, each with its kind, population, English name and coordinate; the official key (AGS/RS) only in the structured result.
The find_place tool is provided by ViaFrei. Install that server in your AI client and the assistant can call it directly.
Servers exposing find_place
From the publisher:Looks up a place name and returns every match, each with its kind, population, English name and coordinate; the official key (AGS/RS) only in the structured result. Use when the person asks where somewhere is, when you need a coordinate for another tool, and above all to RECOVER after a tool reported a name as ambiguous — this is where you find out which Neustadt is which. Pass `near` to rank and
Install ViaFrei →Parameter Type Description 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 query*string The place name to look up, as the person said it — "Neustadt", "Munich", "Kreis Fulda", "Köln Hbf". English names and spellings without umlauts both work. kindstring Narrow to one kind: "city", "district" (Kreis), "admin" (Land or Regierungsbezirk), "station", "stop", "motorway" or "junction". Omit unless the person was specific. nearstring A second place to measure from, used to tell same-named candidates apart: "Neustadt" near "Hamburg" is one of twenty Neustadts. Every result then carries its distance from this point. latnumber Latitude to measure from, instead of `near`. lonnumber Longitude to measure from, instead of `near`. radius_kmnumber When near/lat+lon is given, keep only candidates within this many kilometres (1–200). Omit to rank by distance without dropping any. limitinteger How many candidates to return, best match first (1–10, default 5).
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