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Summary
openrouteservice (HeiGIT) routing on OpenStreetMap: geocoding and reverse geocoding, directions with turn-by-turn steps for car, truck, bike, foot and wheelchair, travel time matrices, isochrones (reachable areas), multi-vehicle route optimisation and points of interest. Free API key.
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Example prompts for openrouteservice
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openrouteservice + Meta Muse
openrouteservice (HeiGIT) routing on OpenStreetMap: geocoding and reverse geocoding, directions with turn-by-turn steps for car, truck, bike, foot and wheelchair, travel time matrices, isochrones (reachable areas), multi-vehicle route optimisation and points of interest. Free API key.
Prerequisites
See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:
OPENROUTESERVICE_API_KEY
Step 1 — Get credentials
Setting up takes about 2 minutes. You need a free HeiGIT account and an API key. The free plan covers testing and small production use.
- Sign up for free at account.heigit.org and create an API key in the dashboard, under tokens.
- Paste only the key into
OPENROUTESERVICE_API_KEY, without the word Bearer, spaces or quotes. The connector sends it in theAuthorizationheader. - Install the connector and run
openrouteservice_geocodewith a place name such as Berlin: it returns the place with its coordinates, which shows the key works.
Current address: the connector talks to https://api.heigit.org, the current home of openrouteservice. HeiGIT is shutting down the old api.openrouteservice.org in November 2026; keys created there work here too, so you can keep an existing key.
What it does: everything runs on OpenStreetMap data. It turns addresses into coordinates and back (geocoding, autocomplete as you type, reverse geocoding); plans routes with distance, duration and turn-by-turn steps for car, truck (driving-hgv), bicycle, foot and wheelchair, optionally avoiding highways, tolls or ferries; builds travel time matrices between many points; draws isochrones, the area you can reach within a given time or distance; solves tours for several vehicles (VROOM) with time windows, capacities and skills; and finds points of interest such as shops, fuel, pharmacies or charging stations around a point.
Longitude first: every routing tool takes coordinates as [longitude, latitude], for example [7.8421, 47.9990] for Freiburg. Swapping the two is the usual cause of a point not found or a route that ends in the sea, so the AI geocodes addresses first and passes the coordinates on unchanged.
Units: durations come in seconds and the AI converts them to hours and minutes for you. Distances are in kilometres by default. Isochrones take their range in seconds, or in metres for a distance range.
Read-only: the connector only computes. Several tools send their request as a POST, but none of them changes anything in your HeiGIT account, so there is nothing to confirm and no tool is switched off at install.
Limits: the free plan allows about 2,000 route requests a day and 40 a minute, with smaller daily quotas for matrices, isochrones, optimisation and points of interest. Every answer carries x-ratelimit-remaining, and the AI prefers one matrix over many single routes.
Common errors: 401 means no key arrived: check OPENROUTESERVICE_API_KEY. 403 means the key was refused or its daily quota is used up; check both at account.heigit.org. 429 means the per-minute limit was reached: wait a minute. Error 2004 means the request goes over a limit (too many points or too long a route); error 2010 means a point is not near a road, often because longitude and latitude were swapped.
The connector only computes on OpenStreetMap data: it draws no map images, offers no public transport routes and changes nothing in your HeiGIT account.
Step 2 — Install the adapter
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d
Step 3 — Add the connector in Muse
Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (
https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide showsYOUR_SERVER_ID.
Muse adds remote MCP servers as custom connectors and signs in to them with OAuth.
- In Muse, open Settings → Connectors and choose Add custom connector.
- Paste the MCP server URL
https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID. - Muse opens the AnythingMCP sign-in page: sign in and approve access.
- In a chat, ask Muse for something that needs the
openrouteservicetools.
You can also set it up from a chat, on the web, in the iOS and Android apps or in WhatsApp. Send Muse this message:
Create a Custom Connector for a new remote MCP server, then connect to it:
Name: AnythingMCP
Transport: remote streamable HTTP
URL: https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID
Auth: OAuth
Self-hosting? Use your instance's public HTTPS address instead of https://cloud.anythingmcp.com. Muse connects from Meta's cloud, so localhost does not work.
Available tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
openrouteservice_geocode | Turn an address or place name into coordinates (forward geocoding, OpenStreetMap and open address data): label, [longitude, latitude]… |
openrouteservice_autocomplete | Suggest places for a partly typed address or name (as-you-type geocoding), with the same fields as openrouteservice_geocode |
openrouteservice_reverse_geocode | Find the address or place at a point (reverse geocoding): nearest addresses, venues or streets with their distance in km |
openrouteservice_directions | Plan a route through two or more points for a car, truck, bicycle, on foot or by wheelchair: total distance and duration, and per leg the… |
openrouteservice_matrix | Compute travel durations (seconds) and optionally distances between many points at once: a matrix from every source to every destination… |
openrouteservice_isochrones | Compute the area reachable from one or more points within given travel times (seconds) or distances (metres): GeoJSON polygons with their… |
openrouteservice_optimize_routes | Solve a vehicle routing problem (VROOM): assign jobs (stops) to vehicles and order them to minimise total travel, respecting time windows… |
openrouteservice_find_pois | Find points of interest from OpenStreetMap (shops, restaurants, fuel, pharmacies, charging stations...) within a radius of a point or in a… |
Example prompts
- "How long is the drive from Heathrow Airport to the British Museum, and what are the turn-by-turn directions?"
- "Which of our technicians in Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield is closest by car to each of these 12 customer addresses?"
- "Show me the area anyone can reach within 15 minutes by car from our shop at 221 Deansgate, Manchester."
- "Plan tomorrow's deliveries: 25 stops, 2 vans working 8 am to 5 pm, and each customer's delivery window. Which van takes which stops, and in what order?"
- "Find pharmacies and EV charging stations within 500 metres of Trafalgar Square."
FAQ
Where is Muse available? Meta currently offers Muse in the US and Canada, on the web, in the iOS and Android apps and in WhatsApp.
Does Meta review this connector? No. Meta doesn't review custom connectors. Muse sees only the tools you switched on for this MCP server in AnythingMCP, and you can disconnect it anytime under Settings → Connectors.
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