OpenRouteService

OpenRouteService MCP Connector for Claude

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Plan routes and analyze spatial data via OpenRouteService — calculate directions, isochrones, distance matrices, VRP optimization, and geocoding from any AI agent.

10 tools Official Updated Jun 28, 2026 Official Vinkius Partner

Unlock the full power of OpenRouteService from a single conversation. Calculate driving routes, generate reachability maps, solve vehicle routing problems, and geocode addresses — all backed by OpenStreetMap data.

What you can do

  • Directions — Calculate optimal routes between multiple waypoints for car, bicycle, or pedestrian profiles with distance and duration
  • Isochrones — Generate reachability polygons showing areas accessible within a given time or distance from any point
  • Distance Matrix — Compute M×N duration and distance matrices between multiple origins and destinations
  • VRP Optimization — Solve multi-vehicle routing problems with jobs, vehicles, and capacity constraints using the VROOM solver
  • Geocoding — Forward and reverse geocode addresses using Pelias, with country boundary filters
  • GPS Snap — Clean noisy GPS traces by snapping coordinates to the nearest road segment
  • Elevation — Get altitude data for coordinate sequences using the elevation API

How it works

  1. Subscribe to this server
  2. Enter your OpenRouteService API Key
  3. Start planning routes from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client

Who is this for?

  • Logistics teams — optimize multi-stop delivery routes and estimate travel times between warehouses and customers
  • Urban planners — analyze accessibility with isochrone maps showing 5/10/15-minute reachability zones
  • Field service managers — plan technician routes solving vehicle routing problems with capacity and time window constraints
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10 tools expose this connector's capabilities to your AI agent.

calculate_directions

Identify precise active arrays spanning native Road network points

get_elevation_line

Provision a highly-available JSON Payload parsing accessible Altitude lines

search_country_boundary

country` fetching strings rigidly ignoring maps spanning outside target ISO boundaries. Irreversibly vaporize explicit validations extracting local search filters

reverse_geocode

Perform structural extraction of properties driving active OSM boundaries

geocode_search

Identify bounded routing spaces inside the Headless OpenRouteService

calculate_isochrones

Inspect deep internal arrays mitigating specific Reachability lines

calculate_matrix

Enumerate explicitly attached structured rules exporting active M * N logs

check_optimization_status

Retrieve explicit Cloud logging tracing explicit Optimization jobs

solve_vrp_optimization

Dispatch an automated validation check routing explicit VROOM solvers

snap_gps_to_road

Retrieve the exact structural matching verifying Map snapping limits

See how to talk to your AI agent using OpenRouteService.

Calculate a driving route from Berlin to Munich with estimated time.

Route calculated (driving-car): Berlin → Munich. Distance: 585 km. Duration: 5h 42min. Route passes through Leipzig and Nuremberg. 2 toll sections detected. Want me to generate an isochrone from the destination or calculate the return route?

Show me all areas reachable within 15 minutes by car from Times Square.

Isochrone generated for Times Square (40.7580, -73.9855) with 15-minute driving range. The polygon covers approximately 12 km² including Midtown, Upper East/West Side, Chelsea, and parts of the East Village. GeoJSON available. Want me to also generate 5 and 10-minute isochrones for comparison?

Calculate the distance matrix between our 3 warehouses and 5 customer locations.

3×5 distance matrix computed (driving-car). Shortest pair: Warehouse B → Customer 3 (8.2 km, 14 min). Longest pair: Warehouse A → Customer 5 (47.1 km, 52 min). Average delivery time across all pairs: 28 min. Want me to run VRP optimization to assign optimal warehouse-customer pairs?

Yes. ORS offers a free Standard plan with generous daily limits for all services (directions, isochrones, matrix, geocoding, and optimization). No credit card required. Higher rate limits are available through the Collaborative plan for non-profits, academics, and government organizations.

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