maps_place_search

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declared in 0.1.0

"Find restaurants / hotels / coffee shops / [businesses] near [location]" / "nearby [type] within [radius]" / "places to eat in [area]" — find nearby businesses and points of interest via Google Maps Places. Returns names, addresses, Google ratings, distances. Premium-quality POI data; requires Google Maps API key. Use over Yelp/OSM when you want Google's POI coverage and ratings.

Parameters schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "examples": [
    {
      "query": "pizza near Times Square",
      "_apiKey": "your-google_maps-api-key"
    },
    {
      "query": "coffee",
      "radius": 1000,
      "_apiKey": "your-google_maps-api-key",
      "location": "40.7128,-74.0060"
    }
  ],
  "required": [
    "query",
    "_apiKey"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Search query (e.g., \"pizza near Times Square\")"
    },
    "radius": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Search radius in meters (max 50000, default 5000)"
    },
    "_apiKey": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Google Maps API key"
    },
    "location": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Center point as \"lat,lng\" (optional)"
    }
  }
}

What this tool wraps· 1 endpoint

min confidence0.70 0.50

Data resourceGoogle Maps Platform
Google · geo
name mention0.80

Parent server

Google_maps

https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-google_maps

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