Connect your client - Mapping API Docs

Get a key

Open Developers → MCP

The Developers section is in the sidebar between System and Settings.

Create a key

Click + New Key, give it a name, and copy the plaintext value. You won’t see it again.

Configure your client

Claude Desktop
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Continue
MCP Inspector

Claude Desktop currently spawns MCP servers over stdio, so we bridge through the mcp-remote shim. Edit ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mapping-travel": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote@0.1.37",
        "https://mcp.mapping.travel/mcp",
        "--header",
        "X-API-Key: mt_mcp_live_..."
      ]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. The tools appear under the wrench icon.

If you see npm ERR! code EACCES in ~/Library/Logs/Claude/mcp-server-mapping-travel.log, your npm cache has root-owned files from a previous sudo install. Run sudo chown -R $(id -u):$(id -g) ~/.npm once and restart Claude Desktop.

Cursor supports the Streamable HTTP transport natively. Edit ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mapping-travel": {
      "url": "https://mcp.mapping.travel/mcp",
      "headers": { "X-API-Key": "mt_mcp_live_..." }
    }
  }
}

Restart Cursor → Settings → MCP should show the server connected with 18 tools.

Continue’s MCP support lives under experimental for now. Edit ~/.continue/config.json:

{
  "experimental": {
    "modelContextProtocolServers": [
      {
        "transport": {
          "type": "streamable-http",
          "url": "https://mcp.mapping.travel/mcp",
          "headers": { "X-API-Key": "mt_mcp_live_..." }
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

For a quick visual sanity check without permanently configuring a client, use Anthropic’s reference MCP Inspector:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector

In the browser UI, pick Streamable HTTP, enter https://mcp.mapping.travel/mcp as the URL, add header X-API-Key: mt_mcp_live_..., and click Connect. You’ll see all 18 tools with input forms and can invoke any of them manually.

Verify

Ask your agent: “What mapping tools do you have available?” — it should list around 18 tools. If not, see Troubleshooting.

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Available tools

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