What's at this location?

Given a coordinate, return the address or place label. Useful for labelling pins and incident reports.

mcp.footstep.ai / reverse_geocode

Why you need it

Why your agent needs this.

When the user shares a location pin and asks 'where is that?', the agent needs the human-readable label, not the lat/lon it already has. reverse_geocode returns the closest address or place name with structured components the agent can speak back: '12 Bridge Street, Camden, London NW1'.

What it does for you

What your agent gets back.

Closest address or place label for a coordinate, ready to read out loud.
Structured components (street, locality, district, country) the agent can quote individually.
Distance and bearing from the input point on each result.
Filter by place_types when the agent needs 'the nearest street' vs 'the locality I'm in'.
For 'what's near here' / 'find X near me' queries, use search_places instead.

Built for

For SAR teams For public-safety GIS For AI developers

Try it

Plug it into your agent.

Add Footstep to your MCP-aware runtime. Your model picks the tool at runtime; you wrote none of the orchestration.

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Prompt that triggers reverse_geocode

"What address is at 51.5014, -0.1419?"

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "footstep": {
      "url": "https://mcp.footstep.ai",
      "headers": {
        "x-api-key": "sk_live_your_key_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Related capabilities.

geocode

Turn an address, landmark, or place name into coordinates. Returns ranked candidates with confidence scores.

search_places

Points of interest near a location, by category or by venue name. Sorted by distance.

parse_address

Free-text in, structured out. Fixes typos, expands abbreviations, infers missing fields, and scores confidence.

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