Pilot Service Agents Geo

Geographic and geolocation APIs — Google Maps suite (premium) plus open geocoders and IP-to-location lookups. Use this skill when: 1. Converting addresses ↔ coordinates, or coordinates ↔ place names 2. Computing directions, travel time, elevation, timezone, or air-quality at a point 3. Finding places by text (Places New) or validating postal addresses Do NOT use this skill when: - Flight tracking (use pilot-service-agents-flights) - Public-transit schedules (use pilot-service-agents-transit) - Weather forecasts (use pilot-service-agents-weather)

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.