Build a map
build_mapMake an interactive, data-driven map from a plain-language request, built from live public data with every value cited to its source. Covers natural hazards (earthquakes, wildfires, volcanoes, tropical storms, floods), weather and air quality, statistics by country, state or region (GDP, population, health, emissions — World Bank, Eurostat, US Census), infrastructure and transit (railways, power plants, transit lines, roads), parks and terrain, and points of interest from OpenStreetMap. The query carries the place, time window and any thresholds — "earthquakes above magnitude 5 near Japan this month", "GDP per capita across Europe" — and the server applies them itself. Returns a shareable link and a map_id for follow-ups (mutate_map, filter_layer, get_state); in clients that support MCP Apps the map also renders interactively in the conversation. The Op catalog and predicate grammar that downstream tools (mutate_map, filter_layer, etc.) accept are documented in the MCP resource showmeonmap://docs/workspace-ops-spec.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | Yes | Natural language: "coffee shops in Tokyo", "GDP by country", "volcanoes in Indonesia", etc. | |
| rationale | No | Optional short label (≤300 chars) for the map edit history, e.g. "add wildfire layer". Omit it to send nothing beyond the tool arguments. |