Local Plans Geospatial RAG prototype

View this code running: https://localplans-ai-map-61938e5fe7bf.herokuapp.com

This project explores using AI to process and combine policy documents that refer to specific locations (locations, buildings, parks, etc). The goal is to decompose a corpus of policy documents into the locations they are talking about, then recombine what each policy document says about a locattion into a summaries per location of all the policies that apply.

It uses planning policy in England as an example, a topic where its easy to find lots of publicly available policy documents.

Planning in England is guided by the The National Planning Policy Framework - the national guide to built environment policy.

Local PLans are the key document that guides built environment policy in Local Authorities. Local Plans follow the guidances in the NPPF.

In turn, Neighbourhood Plans are informed by Local Plans, and are for smaller areas within Local Authorities.

This prototype investigates building a RAG that has features to support:

• Hierarchical sets of policy documents (NPPF->Local Plans->Neighbourhood Plans)
• Documents with geospatial inforation - policys about locations and areas.

Structure

• This repo is the front end code
• Data processing pipeline: https://github.com/jimmytidey/geospatial-policy-rag-pipeline
• API: https://github.com/jimmytidey/geospatial-policy-rag-api

Deploying

npm run build git push heroku main

• This project contains all the configuration necessary to deploy to a Heroku instance
• To connect the API, set VITE_API_PATH in the .env file (The API code: https://github.com/jimmytidey/geospatial-policy-rag-api )

Running locally

npm run dev To connect to the API, set VITE_API_PATH in the .env.development file