Stopful for Claude & ChatGPT
Stopful is a free, map-first road-trip planner. This connector lets an AI assistant draw the trip it just planned for you as a real, interactive map — right in the conversation — instead of another wall of text. You can then drag stops around, open it on stopful.com, and carry on planning.
Endpoint
https://stopful.com/api/mcp
It's a remote MCP server over streamable HTTP. No account and no authentication — add the URL as a custom connector in Claude or ChatGPT and it works. In Claude: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste the URL.
Open Stopful →What it does
The connector provides a single tool, plot_trip. The assistant plans the itinerary; the tool renders it. There is no AI on the Stopful side — the server does no planning and generates no text, it only turns a list of stops into a map.
- Draws the driving route between your stops with per-leg times and distances.
- Shows an interactive map inline in assistants that support it, plus a link that opens the full planner.
- Renders an optional day-by-day itinerary as a day view over the map.
- Lets you edit the map: drag a pin to move a stop, or drag the route to add one. Changes are saved to the trip and kept when the assistant changes it later.
- Fills in missing coordinates from place names, and flags stops it couldn't place or whose coordinates look wrong.
Try it
Once the connector is added, ask your assistant something like:
- “Plan a 10-day road trip through Tuscany and put it on a map.”
- “Map a Lisbon to the Pyrenees drive with 6 stops, 2 nights each.”
- “Add Siena to that trip.”
The tool
| Parameter | What it is |
|---|---|
stops | The route in driving order — each with a place name, optional coordinates, and number of nights (0 = passing through). |
id | Identifies an existing trip so the same map is updated, keeping its link and any edits you made on the map. |
name, startDate, guests | Optional trip name, start date, and party size. |
days | Optional day-by-day itinerary, rendered as a day view. |
The result is a map link, the trip as structured data, and the trip's id. Full contract: llms.txt.
Data & privacy
- What's sent: only the trip the assistant plots — place names, coordinates, nights, and any optional trip name, dates, party size and day itinerary. No conversation content, and no account or personal profile is involved.
- What's stored: the trip itself, so its map link keeps working and your map edits persist. Trips created through the connector are deleted after 90 days of not being opened.
- Who can see it: anyone with the link. A trip link contains a long, unguessable id; it isn't listed or searchable. Don't share it more widely than you intend.
- Place lookups: place names without coordinates are geocoded via OpenStreetMap (Nominatim), and driving routes come from the public OSRM service. Results are cached to limit repeat lookups.
- No tracking: the connector sets no cookies and runs no analytics on you.
See the full Privacy policy and Terms.
Affiliate links
Stopful is free to use. The map includes booking options for stays, cars, flights and activities, and some of those are affiliate links — if you book through one, Stopful may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. This never changes the route the assistant planned or the stops shown on the map, and no booking is ever made on your behalf. Outbound links open through stopful.com/api/go.
Limits & accuracy
- Up to 40 stops per trip.
- Drive times and distances are estimates for planning from public routing data — confirm anything that matters (opening hours, prices, road and border conditions) with the official source.
- A stop placed from its name alone is a best guess; the result says which ones those are.
- Fair-use rate limits apply per user and overall.
Support
Questions, problems, or feedback: contact@stopful.com.