didi-rare/vigilafrica

VigilAfrica: An open-source, hyper-localized natural event tracker for the African continent. Powered by NASA’s EONET data, VigilAfrica provides real-time insights into wildfires, floods, storms, and droughts across all 54 African nations. # VigilAfrica **VigilAfrica** is an open-source effort to make natural event data more understandable and locally relevant across Africa. The project translates raw geospatial event signals — floods, wildfires, storms, drought-related activity — into administrative areas people actually recognise: countries, states, provinces, and local government areas. Instead of asking users to interpret coordinates and satellite metadata, VigilAfrica is being built to answer a simpler question: **What is happening near me?** --- ## Demo Try the current hosted demo: **staging.vigilafrica.org** The demo is a seeded, isolated VigilAfrica environment designed for quick evaluation without waiting on live NASA EONET availability. It shows how raw event coordinates become locally readable alerts across Nigeria and Ghana. What you can evaluate in the demo: - **Localized event context**: floods and wildfires are shown with country and state/region names instead of bare coordinates. - **Two-country coverage**: curated Nigeria and Ghana events are loaded from seed data so the map is useful immediately. - **Map-first exploration**: event markers, filters, and event cards let a reviewer move from a regional overview to individual incidents. - **Operational signal**: health and ingestion status are visible, including failed-ingestion/staleness messaging when relevant. - **Repeatable setup**: the local demo uses its own Docker Compose file, own Postgres volume, and disabled live ingestion. Animated walkthrough: Run the same demo locally: ```bash docker compose -f docker-compose.demo.yml up -d curl localhost curl localhost ``` Then start the frontend with `VITE_API_BASE_URL=localhost` and open the Vite URL. Full instructions are in the Demo Environment Guide. --- ## Why this project exists Across Africa, environmental and natural event data is often available globally, but not always presented in ways that are ea …