search_along_route
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Find places (POIs) along a route with the REAL extra travel time of stopping at each — never a straight-line guess. Provide origin + destination (a route is computed) or an existing route's geometry_polyline6, plus a free-text query ("coffee", "EV charger", "truck stop") and max_detour_minutes (default 10). For a category intent ("fuel", "EV charger", "coffee") pass category instead of relying on words alone: it takes the same vocabulary as nearby_places (lowercased OSM tag values such as "fuel", "cafe", "charging_station", "parking", "pharmacy"), and common colloquial phrases are normalised server-side ("petrol station" and "gas station" to fuel, "coffee" to cafe, "EV charger" to charging_station). query alone also promotes a pure category phrase to the same browse, so "fuel" finds fuel stations rather than places whose NAME starts "Ful"; anything else stays free-text name matching. When a browse ran, the response echoes the tokens used in matched_categories. Candidates near the route corridor are priced through the routing engine with your costing: detour = (origin→place) + (place→destination) − (origin→destination). Costing "auto", "truck" (with a truck profile the detours respect dimensional/ADR restrictions), "bicycle", "pedestrian" or "motor_scooter". Returns results sorted by detour with detour_minutes, detour_km, along_route_position (0-1) and off_route_m; at most 25 candidates are priced per call (candidate_cap).
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| category | string | null | no | Explicit place category ("fuel", "cafe", "charging_station" — same vocabulary as nearby_places). Colloquial phrases are normalised server-side; prefer this over query for category intents. |
| costing | any | no | Costing model for the route and detour matrix: "auto" (default), "truck", "bicycle", "pedestrian" or "motor_scooter". |
| destination | any | no | Route destination. |
| geometry_polyline6 | string | null | no | An existing route geometry as an encoded polyline6 (the `route` tool's `geometry_polyline6`). Provide either this or `origin` + `destination`, not both. |
| max_detour_minutes | number | null | no | Largest acceptable detour in minutes (default 10, at most 120). |
| max_results | integer | null | no | Maximum results (default 5, at most 25). |
| origin | any | no | Route origin (with `destination`, when no geometry is given). |
| query | string | yes | Free-text POI query, e.g. "coffee", "EV charger", "truck stop". |
| truck | any | no | Truck profile (dimensions + ADR declaration). Requires costing "truck"; the detours then respect dimensional/ADR restrictions. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"$defs": {
"CostingKind": {
"description": "Costing models exposed by the MCP tools (a deliberate subset of the\nValhalla costing list), serialised in snake_case exactly as Valhalla\nnames them.",
"oneOf": [
{
"const": "auto",
"description": "Standard car costing.",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "truck",
"description": "Truck costing; honours dimensional limits and, when a `truck`\nprofile is supplied, ADR dangerous-goods restrictions.",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "bicycle",
"description": "Bicycle costing; tune it with a `bicycle` options object.",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "pedestrian",
"description": "Pedestrian (walking) costing; tune it with a `pedestrian` options\nobject (lit streets, wheelchair/blind, hiking difficulty).",
"type": "string"
},
{
"const": "motor_scooter",
"description": "Motor scooter (moped) costing: like auto but prefers lower-speed\nroads and may use ways closed to larger motor vehicles.",
"type": "string"
}
]
},
"LatLon": {
"description": "A WGS84 coordinate pair in decimal degrees.",
"properties": {
"lat": {
"description": "Latitude in decimal degrees (−90 to 90).",
"format": "double",
"type": "number"
},
"lon": {
"description": "Longitude in decimal degrees (−180 to 180).",
"format": "double",
"type": "number"
}
},
"required": [
"lat",
"lon"
],
"type": "object"
},
"TruckSpec": {
"description": "Truck profile for routing: physical dimensions plus the ADR\ndangerous-goods declaration. Omitted dimensions default to the EU\nmaximum authorised dimensions of Council Directive 96/53/EC (4.0 m\nheight, 2.55 m width, 16.5 m length, 40 t gross weight).",
"properties": {
"gross_weight_t": {
"description": "Gross combination weight in metric tonnes.",
"format": "double",
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"hazmat": {
"default": false,
"description": "Whether the vehicle carries dangerous goods (ADR). Defaults to\nfalse.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"height_m": {
"description": "Vehicle height in metres.",
"format": "double",
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"length_m": {
"description": "Vehicle length in metres.",
"format": "double",
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"tunnel_code": {
"description": "ADR 8.6.4 tunnel restriction code of the load, e.g. \"B\", \"C5000D\",\n\"B/D\", or \"(—)\"/\"none\" for explicitly unrestricted. Leave unset if\nunknown: a hazmat load without a code is conservatively treated as\ncode B (allowed only through category-A tunnels).",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"width_m": {
"description": "Vehicle width in metres.",
"format": "double",
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
}
},
"type": "object"
}
},
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"category": {
"description": "Explicit place category (\"fuel\", \"cafe\", \"charging_station\" — same\nvocabulary as nearby_places). Colloquial phrases are normalised\nserver-side; prefer this over query for category intents.",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"costing": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/CostingKind",
"default": "auto",
"description": "Costing model for the route and detour matrix: \"auto\" (default),\n\"truck\", \"bicycle\", \"pedestrian\" or \"motor_scooter\"."
},
"destination": {
"anyOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/$defs/LatLon"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"description": "Route destination."
},
"geometry_polyline6": {
"description": "An existing route geometry as an encoded polyline6 (the `route`\ntool's `geometry_polyline6`). Provide either this or `origin` +\n`destination`, not both.",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"max_detour_minutes": {
"description": "Largest acceptable detour in minutes (default 10, at most 120).",
"format": "double",
"type": [
"number",
"null"
]
},
"max_results": {
"description": "Maximum results (default 5, at most 25).",
"format": "uint32",
"minimum": 0,
"type": [
"integer",
"null"
]
},
"origin": {
"anyOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/$defs/LatLon"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"description": "Route origin (with `destination`, when no geometry is given)."
},
"query": {
"description": "Free-text POI query, e.g. \"coffee\", \"EV charger\", \"truck stop\".",
"type": "string"
},
"truck": {
"anyOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/$defs/TruckSpec"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"description": "Truck profile (dimensions + ADR declaration). Requires costing\n\"truck\"; the detours then respect dimensional/ADR restrictions."
}
},
"required": [
"query"
],
"type": "object"
}