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Connect Raycast to Apple Maps

Yes, Raycast can use Apple Maps. Pomeroy connects Raycast to Apple Maps on your Mac, so it can find places, get driving or walking directions, and tell you how long a journey should take. The maps actions take place names, never your location.

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What can you ask Raycast to do in Apple Maps?

  • “How long will it take to drive to Bristol?”
  • “Find a pharmacy near Borough Market.”
  • “How far is the walk from Paddington to Hyde Park?”
  • “Find coffee near King’s Cross and give me phone numbers.”
  • “Directions from Bath to Cardiff, with the turns.”
  • “Is the walk from the Tate Modern to London Bridge under twenty minutes?”

What Raycast can do in Apple Maps

  • Find places near a named place, with addresses and, where Maps has them, phone numbers and websites.
  • Route between two named places, driving or walking, with the distance and the expected time.

What Pomeroy will not do in Apple Maps

  • Route public transport. Apple does not offer it on a Mac.
  • Use your location. The maps actions take place names only.
  • Book or buy anything.

How to connect raycast to apple maps

Pomeroy lists the assistants it finds on this Mac, so install Raycast first if it is not there yet.

  1. 1

    Download Pomeroy and switch on Apple Maps.

    Open the download, drag Pomeroy into Applications, and open it. Pomeroy opens a setup window listing every app it can connect. Maps needs no macOS permission prompt. The maps actions take place names, not your location, so there is nothing for macOS to ask about.

  2. 2

    Press Set up beside Raycast.

    Raycast has no configuration file Pomeroy can write and no install link Raycast documents, so Pomeroy puts the three values on your clipboard and tells you where they go.

  3. 3

    Paste it into Raycast.

    Paste the configuration into Raycast › Install MCP Server. In Raycast, open Install MCP Server, fill in Name, Transport and Command with the copied values, and save. The server then shows in Raycast's MCP server list, and Raycast AI can use its tools.

  4. 4

    Ask Raycast something.

    Try “How long will it take to drive to Bristol?” and a real answer comes back.

The configuration, in full

Set up writes it for you. The documentation has the exact text, where it goes, and how to check it worked.

Can Raycast use Apple Maps?

Yes. Once you switch Maps on in Pomeroy, Raycast can search for places near a named place and route between two named places, driving or walking, with the distance and the expected time.

Does this share my location?

No. The maps actions take place names, like Borough Market, never coordinates. Pomeroy has a separate Location toggle for the one action that reads where your Mac is, and it stays off unless you switch it on.

Can Raycast plan a train journey?

No. Apple does not route public transport on a Mac, so Pomeroy offers driving and walking only. For a train journey, Raycast can still tell you the walking route to the station.

Raycast does not show Pomeroy's tools.

Then press Set up again in Pomeroy, under Settings › Assistants: every way Pomeroy sets an assistant up is safe to run twice. Then check that the app you asked about is switched on in Pomeroy: an app that is off serves no tools. Pomeroy's menu bar shows whether Raycast is connected right now.

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Get 50 actions every week. No Pomeroy account or payment card required. Requires macOS 15 or later.

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