Ask an AI assistant for a pharmacy that's open late near an address, or a realistic drive time, and you'll often get a confident answer that was never checked. The model is answering from memory: wrong opening hours, invented addresses, optimistic drive times.
The fix is well known: let the model call a maps API. In practice, most people never wire it up. You need an API key, billing, a local server, and responses trimmed so they don't flood the context window.
Wheremind is our attempt to make that a one-line setup.
What it is
Wheremind is a hosted MCP server (MCP is the plug-in standard that Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Claude Code use to give models tools). Add one remote URL, https://wheremind.ai/mcp, sign in with an email code, and the model gets five read-only tools:
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places_search_text: find places by free text ("coffee in Porto", "pharmacies near Lisbon Oriente") -
places_nearby: places around known coordinates -
places_details: phone, website, opening hours, rating for a place -
geocode: address to coordinates and back -
directions: drive, walk, bike, transit or two-wheeler, with distance, duration, polyline and turn-by-turn steps
There's no Maps API key to manage. The data comes from Google Maps Platform, with attributions passed through.
What it looks like
Two real queries from this week:
"How long is the drive from Lisbon Airport to Cascais, and are there tolls?" directions returned 31.6 km, about 27 minutes via the A5, with toll and motorway warnings and 14 turn-by-turn steps. The model answers from that instead of guessing.
"Pharmacies open now near Praça do Comércio in Lisbon." places_search_text returned five pharmacies, all open at the time, each with weekly hours and ratings.
One honest caveat we learned: text search ranks by relevance, not distance, so a couple of those were 2–3 km away. For "closest first", the model should geocode the address and then call places_nearby ranked by distance. The tool descriptions nudge it that way, and getting models to choose that path reliably is still a work in progress.
Setup
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http wheremind https://wheremind.ai/mcp
Then run /mcp, pick wheremind, and Authenticate.
Cursor: in ~/.cursor/mcp.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"wheremind": { "url": "https://wheremind.ai/mcp" }
}
}
Then click Connect next to it in Settings → MCP.
Claude (web/desktop): Customize → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste https://wheremind.ai/mcp → Add → Connect.
ChatGPT: enable Developer mode, create an app with the same URL (OAuth), then pick it from the + menu in a chat.
Agent-readable setup docs live at wheremind.ai/llms.txt, and it's listed on the official MCP Registry as ai.wheremind/wheremind.
Access
We're in private beta and approving invite requests the same day. Request one at wheremind.ai. Invited accounts get a free daily quota.
Feedback we'd love
- Where does the model pick the wrong tool or misread the output?
- What fields are missing for you (a travel-time matrix? departure-time traffic?)
- Which host's connect flow breaks for you?
Drop a comment. We read all of them.
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