Moving Polygons MCP

An official MCP server provided by Moving Polygons that enables AI agents to interact with the Moving Polygons platform. It allows users to create, edit, list, and publish animated polygon maps showing geographic changes over time. The server supports tools for managing map content, handling large file uploads, and searching for public maps, with some tools requiring OAuth authentication and others being publicly accessible.

Endpoint and access

No sign-in to connect and list tools. Individual tools may still need a vendor account, credentials, or permissions; check the documented prerequisites.

Vendor evidenceStreamable HTTPNo sign-inEndpoint checked 2026-11-01Operated by Moving Polygons

You need:OAuth sign-in with a Moving Polygons account

MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP)

https://www.movingpolygons.com/mcp/public

Vendor documentation

What its tools do

2 tools, grouped by the hints the server advertises. Hints are self-declared, not verified behavior.

2 of 2 have a description · 2 of 2 declare behavior hints · 2 of 2 with parameters document them all

Checks and signals

Each line is separate evidence, not a trust score.

Passed Endpoint answered the live check · Nov 1, 2026, 4:49 PM UTC
Passed Official MCP Registry namespace is tied to movingpolygons.com · Nov 1, 2026, 4:45 PM UTC
Passed Endpoint is on the registry namespace domain · Nov 1, 2026, 4:45 PM UTC
Availability 1 of 1 checks passed in 30 days

What you can do with it

Create and publish animated maps of historical borders
Search for and retrieve details of public maps
List and manage user's personal map collections
Replace map content and handle large file uploads

Source and maintenance

Vendor evidenceRegistry 1.0.0

mcp-registry: com.movingpolygons/maps-public@1.0.0 Project website

Protocol and capabilities

Server: moving-polygons-public 1.0.0
MCP protocol negotiated in check: 2025-06-18
Tools: 2 advertised
Resources: Not advertised
Resource templates: Not advertised
Prompts: Not advertised

Server-advertised capabilities

{
  "tools": {
    "listChanged": true
  }
}

Server-provided instructions

Untrusted server output shown for inspection. It is not Koskamo guidance and is excluded from knowledge search.

Moving Polygons (movingpolygons.com) publishes animated maps of how borders, territories and other regions change over time: empires, wars, nations, provinces, epidemics, sea ice. These read-only tools find published maps and return their timelines as text. Use search_maps when the user asks for a map, timeline or visual of a historical period, war, empire or region. Give the user the map's url (it plays in the browser and can be embedded with the iframe code from get_public_map). To make or edit maps in their own account, the user connects the signed-in server at https://www.movingpolygons.com/mcp.

Tools

2 advertised

search_maps — Search published maps

Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

Advertised read-only

Find published animated maps on Moving Polygons (history, wars, empires, borders, epidemics, sea ice…) by words in their title or description and/or a year they cover. Returns links to the interactive map, its text version and its article.

search_maps input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "properties": {
    "year": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 9007199254740991,
      "minimum": -9007199254740991,
      "description": "Only maps whose timeline includes this year; negative for BC (-44 = 44 BC)"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 50,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Default 10"
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Words to match, e.g. 'Ottoman', 'Holy Roman Empire', 'Ukraine war'"
    }
  }
}

search_maps annotations

{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false
}

get_public_map — Get a published map

Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

Advertised read-only

One published map as Markdown: description and sources, the timeline of keyframes (date and caption), layers, events, and the iframe code to embed the interactive map. Pass its URL, or the handle and slug.

get_public_map input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "properties": {
    "url": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "e.g. https://www.movingpolygons.com/map/chrisjager/the-ottoman-empire-12991923"
    },
    "slug": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The last part of the map's URL, e.g. the-ottoman-empire-12991923"
    },
    "username": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The map owner's handle, e.g. chrisjager (with slug, instead of url)"
    }
  }
}

get_public_map annotations

{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": false
}

Prompts

Not advertised

No prompt definitions available.

Resources

Not advertised

No resource definitions available.

90-day uptime

A lightweight connection check about every six hours, sampled on hosts with many listings. It shows the server answered, not that its tools work.

Too few checks for a percentage yet (6 of 6 answered).

2026-11-02: 3 of 3 checks answered
2026-11-03: 3 of 3 checks answered

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: 739 ms
95th percentile latency: 739 ms

Maintenance history

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

Nov 1, 2026, 4:49 PM UTC · probe · passed · 739 ms · metadata changed · 2 tool(s)

Connect from your client

Each snippet registers the same endpoint; pick the client you use.

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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 moving-polygons-mcp-movingpolygons https://www.movingpolygons.com/mcp/public

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 moving-polygons-mcp-movingpolygons --url https://www.movingpolygons.com/mcp/public

Cursor

Merge this server into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, then enable moving-polygons-mcp-movingpolygons in your MCP settings.

Cursor configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "moving-polygons-mcp-movingpolygons": {
      "url": "https://www.movingpolygons.com/mcp/public"
    }
  }
}

Cline

Merge this into cline_mcp_settings.json (Cline → MCP Servers → Configure).

Cline configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "moving-polygons-mcp-movingpolygons": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://www.movingpolygons.com/mcp/public",
      "disabled": false
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Merge this server into .vscode/mcp.json. Use MCP: List Servers to start moving-polygons-mcp-movingpolygons and inspect its tools.

VS Code configuration

{
  "servers": {
    "moving-polygons-mcp-movingpolygons": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.movingpolygons.com/mcp/public"
    }
  }
}

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 moving-polygons-mcp-movingpolygons https://www.movingpolygons.com/mcp/public

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": {
    "moving-polygons-mcp-movingpolygons": {
      "url": "https://www.movingpolygons.com/mcp/public"
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

Merge this into ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json, then refresh MCP in Cascade. Windsurf remote servers use serverUrl, not url.

Windsurf configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "moving-polygons-mcp-movingpolygons": {
      "serverUrl": "https://www.movingpolygons.com/mcp/public"
    }
  }
}

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