Gdal Mcp MCP Server

MCP server exposing GDAL/Rasterio operations to AI agents, with a reflection middleware that requires structured justification before executing operations whose methodology matters (CRS choice…

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What is the Gdal Mcp Server?

Gdal Mcp is an MCP project maintained in the wayfinder-foundry/gdal-mcp repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “MCP server exposing GDAL/Rasterio operations to AI agents, with a reflection middleware that requires structured justification before executing operations whose methodology matters (CRS choice, resampling…”. Read the project documentation for the complete scope.

Installation

The documented pypi package is gdal-mcp. The configuration below comes from the maintainer’s example; adapt its paths and account values to your environment.

Configuration values

The example declares GDAL_MCP_WORKSPACES. Secret-looking values have been replaced with placeholders. Required and optional labels are shown only when the documentation states them.

Source

Project documentation · Repository · Discovery listing. This profile records the public documentation checked on 2026-10-08.

Recorded tools

Check the linked publisher documentation and your connected client's tool list. Names and availability can vary with the server version and account permissions.

Tool	What it does
Raster	raster_info, raster_convert, raster_reproject, raster_stats, raster_query
Vector	vector_info, vector_convert, vector_reproject, vector_clip, vector_buffer, vector_simplify, vector_query
Resources	catalog (workspace://...), metadata (metadata://...), reference (reference://...), query results (query://result/{id})
Prompts	justify_crs_selection, justify_resampling_method, justify_query_extent (and more under src/prompts/)

How to install the Gdal Mcp Server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gdal-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "--from",
        "gdal-mcp",
        "gdal",
        "--transport",
        "stdio"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GDAL_MCP_WORKSPACES": "/path/to/your/geospatial/data"
      }
    }
  }
}

From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.