SHI-Spacial Historical Intelligence

Explore the world through AI. SHI turns every map click into a story—revealing history, culture, and connections between places, people, and ideas across the globe.

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SHI: Spatial Historical Intelligence

SHI is an interactive, AI-driven map visualization platform that transforms the way people explore and understand the world. By simply clicking anywhere on the map, users can instantly learn about a location’s history, culture, and significance, powered by an integrated AI search engine (Perplexity API).

Beyond individual exploration, SHI enables users to:

  • Visualize correlations between different geographic areas.
  • Trace the life journeys of notable figures across the world.
  • Compare countries on various AI-derived metrics such as economy, culture, innovation, and more.

Why?

  • Intuitive Discovery: Learn about any place on Earth without needing to search manually.
  • AI-Driven Insights: Go beyond static data — get contextually rich, up-to-date narratives about regions.
  • Global Perspective: Discover interconnections between distant areas through correlation mapping.
  • Analytical Comparison: Compare nations dynamically on metrics derived from the AI engine’s real-world knowledge.

SHI bridges geospatial visualization and AI-powered contextual understanding in a single platform. Instead of relying on pre-collected datasets or static APIs, SHI leverages Perplexity’s AI search engine to dynamically gather, synthesize, and summarize information in real time — turning raw geographic clicks into meaningful, data-rich storytelling experiences.

Integration with Perplexity

SHI integrates Perplexity’s API as its core intelligence layer. When a user selects a region, the backend sends a structured query to Perplexity, which returns context-aware results — such as the location’s historical background, key figures, cultural relevance, and statistical comparisons. This response is then parsed, visualized, and connected to other relevant geographic entities through our custom correlation engine.

Setup

  • Node.js 18+ (recommended) and npm.
  • Perplexity API key with access to Sonar Pro search.
npm i
env PERPLEXITY_API_KEY=pplx-abc npm run dev
# optionally
npm run build
npm run preview

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