pilot-service-agents-geo

Geographic and geolocation APIs — Google Maps suite (premium) plus open geocoders and IP-to-location lookups.

All agents in this category follow the standard contract described in pilot-service-agents. Send /help to any agent to read its exact filter schema — the table below is a snapshot; the catalogue grows, so always verify with a fresh list-agents query.

Agents in this category (snapshot)

Hostname	Description
`country-from-ip`	Country detection from IP address
`elevation-open-meteo`	Elevation Open Meteo
`gcp-maps-address-validation`	Google Maps Address Validation (premium)
`gcp-maps-air-quality`	Google Maps Air Quality — current conditions (premium)
`gcp-maps-directions`	Google Maps Directions — driving/walking routes (premium)
`gcp-maps-distance-matrix`	Google Maps Distance Matrix — travel times (premium)
`gcp-maps-elevation`	Google Maps Elevation — elevation for coordinates (premium)
`gcp-maps-geocoding`	Google Maps Geocoding — address/coords (premium)
`gcp-maps-geolocation`	Google Geolocation — locate from WiFi/cell/IP (premium)
`gcp-maps-places-new`	Google Maps Places (New) — text place search (premium)
`gcp-maps-pollen`	Google Maps Pollen — forecast by coord (premium)
`gcp-maps-roads`	Google Maps Roads — snap GPS to roads (premium)
`gcp-maps-routes`	Google Maps Routes — traffic-aware routing v2 (premium)
`gcp-maps-solar`	Google Maps Solar — roof solar potential (premium)
`gcp-maps-timezone`	Google Maps Time Zone — tz from coords (premium)
`ip-api`	ip-api.com - IP geolocation, ISP, country, region
`nominatim-reverse`	OpenStreetMap reverse geocoder
`nominatim-search`	OpenStreetMap forward geocoder
`open-meteo-geocoding`	City name to coordinates geocoder (global)
`opensky-bbox`	Live aircraft states in a bounding box
`opentopodata-srtm`	Opentopodata Srtm
`osrm-route`	Open Source Routing Machine — driving directions
`overpass-api`	Overpass Api
`photon-reverse`	Photon Reverse
`rest-countries-currency`	Countries using a specific currency code
`rest-countries-region`	Countries by region (Europe/Asia/etc)
`restcountries-region`	Restcountries Region
`uk-postcodes`	UK postcode geolocation + admin lookup
`viacep-brazil`	Brazilian address lookup by CEP code
`zippopotam-city`	City info by country+zip (Zippopotam.us)

What you can expect

Google Maps Platform coverage — geocoding, directions, distance matrix, elevation, timezone, roads, places, routes, address validation, geolocation, solar, air-quality, pollen
All Google Maps agents are premium (hostname prefix gcp-maps-*) — paid upstream, higher accuracy and SLA
Open alternatives for basic lookups (IP-to-country, open-elevation)

What NOT to expect

Free tier for Google services — pricing is metered upstream
Real-time traffic fleet management (not in catalogue yet)
Raw map tile imagery — the agents serve JSON envelopes, not PNGs

Commands (same pattern for every agent in the category)

# Read an agent's filter contract
pilotctl --json send-message <hostname> --data "/help"
pilotctl --json inbox

# Fetch structured data
pilotctl --json send-message <hostname> --data '/data {json filters}'
pilotctl --json inbox

# Natural-language summary (Gemini)
pilotctl --json send-message <hostname> --data '/summary {json filters}'
pilotctl --json inbox

Response shape

send-message returns an ACK envelope immediately ({"ack":"ACK TEXT N bytes", "bytes":N, "target":"<address>", "type":"text"}). The actual agent response arrives a few seconds later and is read with pilotctl --json inbox. Each inbox entry carries the agent's normalised envelope in its data field:

{
  "source": "<hostname>",
  "items":  [...],
  "count":  <int>,
  "total":  <int|null>,
  "page":   <int|null>,
  "next":   <cursor|null>,
  "truncated": <bool>,
  "upstream_url": "<resolved upstream URL>"
}

/help returns plain text. /summary returns a Gemini-generated prose string. Free-text queries also return Gemini prose.

Workflow Example

# 1. Fresh discovery — the catalogue grows, never hard-code
pilotctl --json send-message list-agents --data '/data {"category":"geo","limit":20}'
pilotctl --json inbox

# 2. Read the contract of a specific agent
pilotctl --json send-message gcp-maps-geocoding --data '/help'
pilotctl --json inbox

# 3. Query it
pilotctl --json send-message gcp-maps-geocoding --data '/data {"address":"1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy Mountain View CA"}'
pilotctl --json inbox

Dependencies

Requires the pilot-protocol core skill, the pilot-service-agents skill (for the general discovery flow), pilotctl on PATH, and a running daemon joined to network 9.