DaedalMap

DaedalMap is a map-first geographic query engine. It lets people ask place-based questions in natural language and get usable map results across disasters, demographics, economics, climate, and related public data.

Public surfaces:

• App: https://app.daedalmap.com
• Website/docs: https://daedalmap.com

This repository is the open app/runtime. It is intended to be understandable and usable on its own: you can run it locally, point it at local or hosted data, and extend it with compatible datasets and pack-style workflows.

If you are using the public GitHub repo as a self-host/local runtime, the practical setup contract right now is:

• a local data location (DATA_ROOT, unless you use the default app-data path)
• an LLM API key (OPENAI_API_KEY or ANTHROPIC_API_KEY)

Supabase and hosted account wiring are optional for self-host use.

What It Does

DaedalMap is built around three ideas:

• ask in plain language instead of assembling GIS workflows first
• keep the map as the primary interface, not an afterthought
• separate runtime delivery from maintained data-pack delivery

Typical use cases:

• show earthquakes, floods, wildfires, storms, volcanoes, or tsunamis for a place and time window
• compare population, economic, and disaster context in the same workflow
• move between hosted demo use, account-linked runtime access, and local/self-hosted operation without changing the basic mental model

Data Coverage

The hosted runtime ships with 40+ curated sources across disasters, demographics, economics, and climate. Coverage below reflects the current maintained pack inventory.

Global Disasters

Source	Scale	Time Range
USGS Earthquakes	1M+ events	2150 BC - present
IBTrACS Hurricanes/Cyclones	13K storms	1842 - present
NOAA Tsunamis	2.6K events	2000 BC - present
Smithsonian Volcanoes	11K eruptions	Holocene
Global Wildfires	940K events/year	2002 - 2024
USA/CAN Tornadoes	81K events	1950 - present
Global Floods	4.8K events	1985 - 2019
Global Landslides	45K events	1760 - present

Disaster events include 22M+ geographic location relationships and 566K cross-disaster links (aftershocks, triggered events).

Global Indicators

Source	Countries	Years	Category
Our World in Data CO2	217	1750 - 2024	Environment
WHO Health Statistics	198	2015 - 2024	Health
IMF Balance of Payments	195	2005 - 2022	Economy
UN Sustainable Development Goals	200+	2000 - 2023	SDGs 1-17
Eurostat Demographics	37 European countries	2000 - 2024	Demographics

Country-Specific Sources

Country	Source Count	Examples
USA	15+	Census, FEMA National Risk Index, NOAA storms
Canada	3	Statistics Canada, NRCan earthquakes, drought
Australia	2	ABS population, BOM cyclones

Disaster Display

Disasters are displayed with animated, type-specific rendering:

• Point + radius: earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes
• Track/trail: hurricanes and cyclones
• Radial wave: tsunamis
• Polygon fill: wildfires, floods

Current Runtime Shape

DaedalMap now treats runtime behavior as a 2-axis matrix:

• INSTALL_MODE
  • local = local app/runtime install
  • cloud = hosted/server deployment
• RUNTIME_MODE
  • local = query local data
  • cloud = query managed cloud-backed data via local cache + DuckDB httpfs

Supported combinations:

• local install + local data
• local install + cloud data
• cloud install + cloud data

Not supported as a first-class runtime shape:

• cloud install + local data

The current hosted/runtime direction is:

• Railway for the public app runtime
• Cloudflare R2 for canonical runtime data storage
• Supabase for auth and the future entitlement/control plane

In RUNTIME_MODE=cloud, the runtime:

• eagerly syncs only small metadata files to loc

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