How to connect Google Maps MCP with Cursor

How to integrate Google Maps MCP with Cursor Cursor is one of the leading AI-powered code editors. It is built to help developers write, understand, and refactor code faster with AI assistance built directly into the editor. And in this guide, I will explain the easiest and most secure way to connect your Google Maps account to Cursor via Composio Connect, so it can find walking directions from your hotel to conference center, show top-rated coffee shops near your location, embed a map of downtown restaurants on your website, and more without ever putting your account credentials at risk.

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How to integrate Google Maps MCP with Cursor

Cursor is one of the leading AI-powered code editors. It is built to help developers write, understand, and refactor code faster with AI assistance built directly into the editor.

And in this guide, I will explain the easiest and most secure way to connect your Google Maps account to Cursor via Composio Connect, so it can find walking directions from your hotel to conference center, show top-rated coffee shops near your location, embed a map of downtown restaurants on your website, and more without ever putting your account credentials at risk.

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Why Composio?

  • 1,000+ SaaS toolkits out of the box. Skip the work of building and maintaining integrations, Composio gives you instant access to a vast catalog of pre-built connectors.
  • One MCP server for every app. Connect any of your applications on demand through a single endpoint, rather than juggling a separate server for each app.
  • Smart, context-aware tool loading. Unlike traditional MCP servers that dump every available tool into the LLM context window, Composio searches for and loads only the tools relevant to the task at hand. A remote CLI workbench lets LLMs compose these tools into workflows for complex automation.

Connect Google Maps to Cursor

Two ways to install — pick whichever you prefer.

1. Install with one click

Click the button below to add Composio to Cursor.

Install in Cursor

2. Or add manually

Add to your Cursor mcp.json

Open .cursor/mcp.json in your project root (or ~/.cursor/mcp.json for global config) and add the following configuration:

bash
{
  "servers": {
    "composio": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

3. Authorize

Restart Cursor, then click "Connect" next to Composio in MCP Tools settings.

Cursor MCP Tools settings with Connect button next to Composio

A browser window will open to authorize.

Composio authorization browser window

Connect your Google Maps account

Back in Cursor, ask the agent to connect to Google Maps or give it any Google Maps-related task.

For example, ask it to:

  • "Find walking directions from your hotel to conference center"
  • "Show top-rated coffee shops near your location"
  • "Embed a map of downtown restaurants on your website"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access to Google Maps.

That is it. Composio tools are now available in Cursor, and your Google Maps account is ready to use.

Conclusion

You have successfully connected Google Maps to Cursor using Composio Connect. Your agent can now use Google Maps securely without exposing credentials in prompts or local scripts.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Google Maps action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Autocomplete Place Predictions

Returns place and query predictions for text input.

Compute Route Matrix

Calculates travel distance and duration matrix between multiple origins and destinations using the modern Routes API; supports OAuth2 authentication and various travel modes.

Geocode Address With Query

Tool to map addresses to geographic coordinates with query parameter.

Geocode Destinations

Tool to perform destination lookup and return detailed destination information including primary place, containing places, sub-destinations, landmarks, entrances, and navigation points.

Reverse Geocode Location

Tool to convert geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) to human-readable addresses using reverse geocoding.

Geocode Place by ID

Tool to perform geocode lookup using a place identifier to retrieve address and coordinates.

Geocoding API

Convert addresses into geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) and vice versa (reverse geocoding), or get an address for a Place ID.

Geolocate Device

Tool to determine location based on cell towers and WiFi access points.

Get 2D Map Tile

Tool to retrieve a 2D map tile image at specified coordinates for building custom map visualizations.

Get 3D Tiles Root

Tool to retrieve the 3D Tiles tileset root configuration for photorealistic 3D map rendering.

Get Place Details

Retrieves comprehensive details for a place using its resource name (places/{place_id} format).

Get Route

Calculates one or more routes between two specified locations.

Lookup Aerial Video

Tool to look up an aerial view video by address or video ID.

Embed Google Map

Tool to generate an embeddable Google Map URL and HTML iframe code.

Nearby search

Searches for places (e.

Get Place Photo

Retrieves high quality photographic content from the Google Maps Places database.

Render Aerial Video

Starts rendering an aerial view video for a US postal address.

Text Search

Searches for places on Google Maps using a textual query (e.

Create Tiles Session

Tool to create a session token required for accessing 2D Tiles and Street View imagery.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Google Maps MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Google Maps tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Google Maps and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Cursor fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Google Maps tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Google Maps scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Google Maps data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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