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BumiAtlas Tanzania (Zanzibar Buildings) MCP

An MCP server providing access to Zanzibar's building register (COLA) via ZanSDI. It allows AI assistants to search for building footprints by registration number or coordinates, retrieve registered area data, and generate map images showing building locations and neighbors on satellite or street basemaps.

Endpoint and access

OAuth sign-in: the first time you connect, your client opens the vendor's own authorization prompt in a browser.

BumiAtlas Tanzania (Zanzibar Buildings) MCP logo, by BumiAtlasCommunity listingStreamable HTTPOAuth sign-inEndpoint checked 2026-11-01Published by BumiAtlas
You need:your client opens a browser window to sign in with Google
MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP)
https://bumiatlas.com/mcp/tanzania
Vendor documentation

What you can do with it

  • Find Zanzibar building footprints by registration number or coordinates
  • Retrieve registered building area and boundary data
  • Generate map images of buildings and neighbors on satellite imagery

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 1.0.0
mcp-registry: io.github.BumiAtlas/zanzibar-buildings@1.0.0Source repositoryProject website
Maintenance checked

Tools

Reported by the attributed source; not independently observed by Koskamo.

No tool definitions available.

30-day availability

Aggregated from read-only remote checks; this is not a tool-execution or security guarantee.

Successful checks
1 of 1 (100%)
Average latency
427 ms
95th percentile latency
427 ms

Maintenance history

Public check and source-refresh events. Editorial and ownership records remain private.

  • · probe · passed · 427 ms · metadata changed · refuses unauthenticated initialize (HTTP 401)

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Claude Code

Run this once in a terminal. It registers the remote server. Use --scope project to write .mcp.json for the repo.
Claude Code configuration
claude mcp add --transport http bumiatlas-tanzania-zanzibar-buildings-mcp https://bumiatlas.com/mcp/tanzania

Codex

Run this once. Codex stores MCP servers in ~/.codex/config.toml (or .codex/config.toml in a trusted project).
Codex configuration
codex mcp add bumiatlas-tanzania-zanzibar-buildings-mcp --url https://bumiatlas.com/mcp/tanzania

Cursor

Merge this server into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, then enable bumiatlas-tanzania-zanzibar-buildings-mcp in your MCP settings.
Cursor configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bumiatlas-tanzania-zanzibar-buildings-mcp": {
      "url": "https://bumiatlas.com/mcp/tanzania"
    }
  }
}

Cline

Merge this into cline_mcp_settings.json (Cline → MCP Servers → Configure).
Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bumiatlas-tanzania-zanzibar-buildings-mcp": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://bumiatlas.com/mcp/tanzania",
      "disabled": false
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Merge this server into .vscode/mcp.json. Use MCP: List Servers to start bumiatlas-tanzania-zanzibar-buildings-mcp and inspect its tools.
VS Code configuration
{
  "servers": {
    "bumiatlas-tanzania-zanzibar-buildings-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://bumiatlas.com/mcp/tanzania"
    }
  }
}

Gemini CLI

Run this once. It writes .gemini/settings.json in the current project; pass --scope user for ~/.gemini/settings.json.
Gemini CLI configuration
gemini mcp add --transport http bumiatlas-tanzania-zanzibar-buildings-mcp https://bumiatlas.com/mcp/tanzania

Claude Desktop

Merge this into claude_desktop_config.json (macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\), then restart Claude Desktop.
Claude Desktop configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bumiatlas-tanzania-zanzibar-buildings-mcp": {
      "url": "https://bumiatlas.com/mcp/tanzania"
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

Merge this into ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json, then refresh MCP in Cascade. Windsurf remote servers use serverUrl, not url.
Windsurf configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "bumiatlas-tanzania-zanzibar-buildings-mcp": {
      "serverUrl": "https://bumiatlas.com/mcp/tanzania"
    }
  }
}

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