Maps

• User asks travel questions like "how far is it from X to Y by car/bike/foot" or requests turn-by-turn directions between two points.
• User wants to find nearby places — restaurants, pharmacies, parks, etc. — within a given radius or bounding rectangle.
• User provides coordinates and needs a human-readable address, or provides a place name and needs its coordinates or geographic bounding box.
• User needs timezone information or area dimensions for a named location.

• Real-time traffic data or live transit schedules are required — this skill uses static routing and does not include live traffic feeds.
• Extremely high-volume or production-grade geocoding is needed without a self-hosted backend, as public OSM endpoints have fair-use limits.
• The user needs proprietary map data, satellite imagery, or street-view features not available in OpenStreetMap.

Convert any place name or address into precise coordinates, or turn a latitude/longitude pair back into a human-readable address. Powered by OpenStreetMap's open dataset.

Find points of interest — restaurants, hospitals, parks, fuel stations, and 42 more categories — within a specified radius of any location or inside a defined bounding rectangle.

Calculate distance and estimated travel time between two points for driving, walking, or cycling modes using the OSRM routing engine.

Generate step-by-step navigation instructions for any supported route, giving users actionable guidance from origin to destination.

Retrieve the timezone for any named location, along with its geographic bounding box and area — useful for scheduling, regional queries, and spatial analysis.

All core functionality runs against free, public OSM-based endpoints. An optional self-hosted backend can be configured for higher throughput in heavy-use scenarios.

A user asks "How far is Hangzhou West Lake from Shanghai Pudong Airport by car?" The skill calculates driving distance, estimated travel time, and returns turn-by-turn directions.

A user asks to find vegan restaurants within 1 km of their current address. The skill queries OSM's Overpass API and returns a ranked list of matching POIs with distances.

A user shares a pair of coordinates and wants to know what address or neighborhood they correspond to. The skill reverse-geocodes the point and returns a structured address.

A user scheduling an international meeting asks what timezone a city is in. The skill returns the timezone identifier along with the city's geographic bounding box if needed.