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Connect Windsurf to Apple Maps

Yes, Windsurf can use Apple Maps. Pomeroy connects Windsurf 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 Windsurf 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 Windsurf 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 windsurf to apple maps

Pomeroy lists the assistants it finds on this Mac, so install Windsurf 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 Windsurf.

    Pomeroy puts the configuration on your clipboard. Paste it into Windsurf's mcp_config.json, keeping any servers already there.

  3. 3

    Paste it into Windsurf.

    Paste the configuration into ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json. In Windsurf, open the MCP panel in Cascade and press refresh. Pomeroy is listed with its tools.

  4. 4

    Ask Windsurf 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 Windsurf use Apple Maps?

Yes. Once you switch Maps on in Pomeroy, Windsurf 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 Windsurf 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, Windsurf can still tell you the walking route to the station.

Windsurf 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 Windsurf is connected right now.

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Apple Maps with other assistants

Try Windsurf with Apple Maps.

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

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