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Location intelligence for environment, climate and sustainability teams

Watch land, coasts and sites from space, prepare for heat and floods, and plan greener cities.

25ready-made templates
6kinds of use case
2one-minute stories
32blocks used
113hours a month saved by them all (an estimate)

Why environment & climate teams use xMap Flows

Environment and sustainability teams need evidence across wide areas. xMap Flows watches forests, coasts, landfills and industrial sites from satellite, plans cooling and greening for the hottest districts, maps recycling and EV gaps, tracks idling ships near ports and warns about dust storms and floods. It also finds clients for audits and green services and compiles a weekly digest.

Wide areas, few inspectors

Satellite pictures of many sites every few weeks.

Heat and flood risk

Forecast-based alerts and plans for the most exposed districts.

Green infrastructure gaps

Areas far from recycling points, EV chargers or bike stations.

ESG reporting

A weekly digest of the facts you track, on the same method each time.

Sustainability teams, environmental consultancies, recyclers and city climate offices who need facts about places to act on.

How a flow works for environment & climate

Every flow reads left to right: something starts it (a schedule, a message, an app event or new rows), it looks at an area, gathers data, lets xMap AI make sense of it, applies your rules, and sends the result where your team works. These are the blocks environment & climate templates use most.

  1. 1

    Where

    Choose the area: countries, cities, a radius around your own sites, or shapes you draw.

    Area of interest

  2. 2

    Data

    Bring in what is there and what is changing.

    Nearby places · Demographics · Weather forecast · Satellite images · Job postings

  3. 3

    AI and your rules

    Score, rank, keep only what is new or fits, and match with your own data.

    xMap LLM · Place classifier · Jev decision · AI agent · Sort and limit

  4. 4

    Where results go

    Send each result where your team works.

    Email · Show on a map · Reply · Google Sheets · HubSpot

Use cases and templates for environment & climate

Each template is a real flow on live data. Open it, change the city and the kind of place, test it and deploy it. Grouped by what the team wants to do.

Find customers and leads 5 templates

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Companies hiring for ESG, with the sustainability lead, every Monday.

Every Monday: companies hiring sustainability, ESG or climate roles in your city, one per company, scored by xMap AI as clients for ESG reporting help, with the CFO or head of sustainability from Apollo, into HubSpot. A company building its sustainability team has reporting deadlines ahead and needs help to meet them.

Good for
An ESG consultancy · A carbon accounting software company · A sustainability training provider
Each run gives
New contacts in HubSpot
Time saved
About 6 hours a month (an estimate)

The busiest kitchens graded as food waste collection clients.

Every month: the restaurants and hotels in your city with the most reviews (the busiest kitchens), graded by Jev as clients for food waste collection and composting, the best 50 in a sheet for the sales team. Big kitchens make the most food waste and save the most by sorting it. They are the best first clients for collection.

Good for
A food waste collection company · A composting business · A biogas operator
Each run gives
A Google Sheet
Time saved
About 2 hours a month (an estimate)

Tree and landscaping contractors for city greening tenders.

Every quarter: tree services and landscapers in your region, the best-rated first, with the owner from Apollo, for the city greening tender list, into HubSpot. Greening programmes need many reliable contractors. A current, rated list makes tenders faster.

Good for
A city greening programme · A real estate developer · A facilities manager
Each run gives
New leads in HubSpot
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)

Every car wash in town with a water saving offer.

Every year: car washes in your city counted by district, each with a water saving offer by xMap AI (recycling systems, rebates), for the water utility’s outreach team. Car washes use a lot of water and most can recycle it. Reaching each one with a clear offer saves water at scale.

Good for
A water utility · A water recycling equipment company · A city conservation team
Each run gives
A Google Sheet · A map
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)

Big energy users with their facility manager, approved for audits.

Every month: large hotels, hospitals and malls in your city, scored by xMap AI as clients for an energy audit, with the facility manager from Apollo, approved by you, into HubSpot. Hotels, hospitals and malls use the most energy and save the most from an audit. The facility manager is the person to reach.

Good for
An energy services company · A building automation vendor · A green building consultancy
Each run gives
New contacts in HubSpot
Time saved
About 2 hours a month (an estimate)

Site selection and expansion 3 templates

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Busy shopping places with the fewest EV chargers, scored as charger sites.

Every quarter: malls and supermarkets in your city with the fewest EV charging stations within 1 km, scored by xMap AI as sites for new chargers, for the city’s EV plan, emailed and mapped. Drivers charge where they shop. Chargers at busy places with none nearby get used from day one.

Good for
A city EV programme · A charging network · A mall owner
Each run gives
A map · An email
Time saved
About 2 hours a month (an estimate)

Big offices with no bike share nearby, for the next stations.

Every quarter: large offices and business centres in your city with the fewest bike share stations within 500 m, for where to put the next stations, emailed and mapped. Bike share is used for the commute. Stations next to big offices without one get riders fast.

Good for
A bike share operator · A city transport team · A business district association
Each run gives
A map · An email
Time saved
About 2 hours a month (an estimate)

Truck depots with the fewest chargers, as electric charging hub sites.

Every quarter: trucking and logistics companies in your region, each with the EV chargers within 2 km, the ones with the fewest first, as sites for shared electric truck charging hubs. Electric trucks need chargers where the depots are. Clusters of depots with no chargers are the best hub sites.

Good for
A truck charging network · A logistics park developer · A utility planning grid upgrades
Each run gives
A map · An email
Time saved
About 2 hours a month (an estimate)

Competitor watch 1 template

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The most trusted solar installers, as a consumer guide.

Every quarter: the solar installers in your region, judged by xMap AI from their rating and number of reviews, written up as a consumer guide to the most trusted installers, saved to Google Drive. Homeowners want an installer they can trust. A guide built from how customers rate them earns readers and trust.

Good for
A consumer energy website · A solar marketplace · A city energy advice service
Each run gives
A guide in Google Drive
Time saved
About 8 hours a month (an estimate)

Operations and alerts 2 templates

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A spill prevention checklist for each site when heavy rain is coming.

Every morning: the rain forecast at each of your plants and depots, the ones expecting heavy rain first, with a spill and run-off checklist by xMap AI sent to each site’s environmental officer. Run-off from industrial sites in heavy rain is a common pollution incident. A checklist the morning before prevents it.

Good for
A manufacturer’s EHS team · A fuel depot operator · A waste company
Each run gives
An email
Time saved
About 10 hours a month (an estimate)

Which beaches will be busiest this weekend, with a staffing note.

Every Thursday in summer: the weekend forecast for your coast and the beaches with the most people living nearby, with a staffing note by xMap AI for lifeguards and clean-up crews. Hot weekends crowd some beaches far more than others. Lifeguards and crews go where the people will be.

Good for
A coastal city’s beach services · A lifeguard service · A beach clean-up organisation
Each run gives
An email
Time saved
About 3 hours a month (an estimate)

Market data and research 13 templates

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The blocks with many people and few parks, where trees matter most.

Every year: the blocks of your city with the most residents and the fewest parks within 1 km, the 20 most in need first, for the urban greening plan, emailed and mapped. Trees cool streets most where people live densely with little green. This flow shows where planting helps the most people.

Good for
A city greening programme · A tree planting charity · An urban heat researcher
Each run gives
An email · A map
Time saved
About 4 hours a month (an estimate)

The blocks furthest from a recycling centre, for the recycling plan.

Every year: how many people live in each part of your city and how many recycling centres are within 3 km, the least served blocks first, as a note for the waste and recycling plan. People recycle more when drop-off is close. This shows where new points would raise recycling most.

Good for
A city waste department · A recycling company · An environmental NGO
Each run gives
An email
Time saved
About 3 hours a month (an estimate)

Each coastal site from space every month, with notes on change.

Every month: the latest clear satellite picture of each beach or coastal site you monitor, with a note by xMap AI on erosion, new structures or water colour, emailed to the coastal team. Coastlines change slowly and then suddenly. A monthly picture catches erosion and new structures early.

Good for
A coastal management agency · A marine conservation NGO · A resort developer
Each run gives
An email with the pictures
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)

Forest plots checked for clearing from space, with a field check flag.

Every month: the latest clear satellite picture of each forest plot in your table, with a note by xMap AI on signs of clearing, roads or fire, for the conservation or supply-chain team. Clearing in a supply chain or a reserve must be caught early. Each plot is checked monthly, and Jev flags the ones to visit.

Good for
A deforestation-free supply chain team · A conservation NGO · A carbon project developer
Each run gives
A Google Sheet
Time saved
About 2 hours a month (an estimate)

How many people live within 2 km of each chemical plant and power station.

Every year: chemical plants and power stations in your region with how many people live within 2 km of each, the most exposed first, for the environmental health report. Environmental health starts with who is exposed. This shows which industrial sites have the most people around them.

Good for
An environmental health agency · An environmental NGO · A researcher
Each run gives
An email
Time saved
About 3 hours a month (an estimate)

Farmers’ markets and organic shops in one directory.

Every quarter: farmers’ markets and organic food stores in your city, with opening details, phone and website, kept in a Google Sheet for your sustainable food guide. A sustainable food guide is only useful if it is current. This keeps the list fresh every quarter.

Good for
A sustainable food guide · A city food policy team · A local food NGO
Each run gives
A Google Sheet
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)

The climate and environment news each weekday, on a map, in a short brief.

Every weekday at 7:30: the science and environment news read by xMap AI for climate, pollution, nature, water and clean energy stories, each placed on the map where it happens, the new ones only, in a short brief for the sustainability team. Sustainability teams are asked about every new rule, spill and record heat. A short brief each morning means they have read it before the question comes.

Good for
A company’s sustainability team · An environmental consultancy · A city climate office
Each run gives
An email · A map
Blocks
Schedule → News → Only new → xMap LLM → Email → Show on a map
Time saved
About 11 hours a month (an estimate)

Parks and beaches ranked as volunteer clean-up spots.

Every month: parks and beaches in your city with the most people living within 1 km, ranked by xMap AI as clean-up spots for your volunteer days, emailed with a map. Clean-ups matter most where many people use a place. This picks the spots for the next volunteer days.

Good for
An environmental volunteering group · A city parks team · A company planning a green day
Each run gives
A map · An email
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)

Ships idling at anchor each day, for the port’s emissions note.

Every day: ships stopped at anchor in the port area (live AIS), by type, summed up by xMap AI for the port’s daily emissions and air quality note. Ships waiting at anchor run engines near the shore. A daily count helps the port track and cut those emissions.

Good for
A port sustainability team · A city air quality office · A clean shipping NGO
Each run gives
An email
Time saved
About 15 hours a month (an estimate)

A note the day a plant, quarry or dump opens near a protected area.

Checked every day: as soon as a chemical plant, quarry, garbage dump or oil refinery opens within 5 km of the nature reserve you watch, a note by xMap AI on the risk it could bring, emailed and mapped for the conservation team. A quiet day costs only the check. New industry near a reserve is easiest to question or monitor early. A daily check means the conservation team hears first, not last.

Good for
A conservation charity · A park authority · An environmental consultancy
Each run gives
An email when something opens · A map
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)

Landfills and dumpsites from space every month, with notes.

Every month: the latest clear satellite picture of each landfill or dumpsite in your table, with a note by xMap AI on how it grew or changed, emailed to the waste regulator. Dumpsites grow and burn without anyone reporting it. A monthly picture gives the regulator the facts.

Good for
A waste regulator · An environmental NGO · A city waste department
Each run gives
An email with the pictures
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)

A monthly green jobs index by sector and city.

On the 1st of every month: job postings in renewable energy, recycling and climate in your country’s main cities, sorted by xMap AI by sector, as a short green jobs index for the newsletter. Green jobs are the clearest sign of the green economy growing. A monthly index makes it visible.

Good for
A climate newsletter · A green jobs board · A government skills team
Each run gives
An email
Time saved
About 1 hours a month (an estimate)

New chargers, solar firms and green jobs in one weekly digest.

Every Friday: new EV chargers, new solar companies and green job postings in your city, joined by xMap AI into a short sustainability digest for the city climate office. Climate offices need to see progress weekly. Three live signals in one digest show it.

Good for
A city climate office · A sustainability newsletter · A chamber of commerce
Each run gives
An email
Time saved
About 5 hours a month (an estimate)

Chat assistants and APIs 1 template

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Green living assistant for residents

AI agentEasyWhen it happens

A chat that tells residents where to recycle, charge and buy local.

A chat for residents: an AI agent answers where to recycle, charge an electric car, rent a bike or buy local food, with the nearest places from live data. People want to do the right thing when it is easy. The chat makes it easy with the nearest places.

Good for
A city sustainability website · A recycling programme · An eco brand’s app
Each run gives
A chat page
Blocks
Chat → AI agent → Nearby places → Reply
Time saved
About 25 hours a month (an estimate)

Stories: what teams build

One-minute narrated stories of a flow at work. The scenarios and figures are illustrative, not customer results.

Flood control

Pump crews in place before the rain hits Jakarta

The challenge. Rina runs operations for the drainage agency in Jakarta, with seventy pump stations along the rivers and canals. In the rainy season, storms build in the afternoon. Crews are called out once the streets are already under water, and some stations sit unmanned for the first hour. That hour floods homes.

The flow. With xMap Flows, Rina built Monsoon. Every morning at four, for each of seventy pump stations, Monsoon reads today’s rain forecast, keeps the stations where heavy rain is coming, puts the heaviest first, hands them to the crew call out, and marks them on today’s map.

The result. At four this morning, Monsoon saw heavy rain coming for twelve stations in the north. Their crews were called out and in place by noon. When the storm broke at three, every pump was already running. Rina stopped chasing the rain. Now her crews wait for it.

70pump stations checked daily
12crews in place by noon
3 hahead of the storm

Blocks: Schedule → My data → Weather forecast → Filter → Sort and limit → Run another flow → Show on a map

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Public health

Cool rooms open where Paris’s elders live

The challenge. Camille leads the summer heatwave plan for the city of Paris. Each heatwave, the city opens cool rooms in town halls and libraries. Deciding which ones took two days of calls, so they opened after the heat had already arrived. And some opened where few older people live.

The flow. With xMap Flows, Camille built Canopy. Every summer morning at six, for each of eighty cool rooms, Canopy reads the next three days’ forecast, keeps the ones where heat is coming, counts the older people living around each, picks the twenty that matter most, writes each opening notice, and sends it to the district halls.

The result. In July, Canopy saw thirty six degrees coming three days ahead. It picked the twenty rooms with the most people over sixty around them, and the district halls had the notices by eight that morning. Every room was open before the first hot afternoon. Camille stopped racing the heat. Now the cool rooms open first.

3 dayswarning before the heat
20cool rooms opened
8 a.m.notices out, not two days later

Blocks: Schedule → My data → Weather forecast → Filter → Demographics → Sort and limit → xMap LLM → Microsoft Outlook

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The blocks behind it

Blocks are the building pieces of every flow. These are the ones environment & climate templates and stories use, most used first. Each has its own page with its settings, examples and a short film.

ScheduleTriggerStarts the flow on a timetable.EmailActionSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.xMap LLMxMap AITell the AI what to do in plain words.Area of interestWhereSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.Nearby placesxMap dataPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or aSort and limitLogicPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.Show on a mapActionShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.DemographicsxMap dataWho lives in an area: the number of residents, men and women, and nine age groups, from xMap’s population grid (hexagons of about 0.1 km², about 100 countries).My dataYour dataBrings in a table you uploaded or a list you saved on the My data page: your stores, customers, target accounts or sites.Google SheetsAppCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets onlineWeather forecastxMap dataThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.Satellite imagesxMap dataRecent satellite pictures (Sentinel-2, about 10 m per pixel, a new pass every few days) of each incoming place, a point or the Area of interest: when it was taken, how cloudy, and the picture itself.Job postingsxMap dataLive job postings: who is hiring, for what, and where.FilterLogicKeeps only the items that match a rule.ApolloYour dataThe people to talk to at each company, and the company’s details, from your own Apollo account (apollo.io): decision makers by job title with their LinkedIn and work email; or the company’s size, induHubSpotAppPowerful CRM that offers tools for sales, customer service, and marketing automation.Place classifierxMap AIAssigns clean categories and merges duplicate places.Jev decisionxMap AIAsks TypeSafe’s Jev model one typed question about each place: yes or no, pick one of your options, or a score on your levels.Only newLogicLets through only the items this flow has not found before, so a daily flow sends only what is new.Calculated fieldLogicAdds fields worked out from the others: a number, a text or a yes/no.Map business scanxMap dataFinds businesses on online maps live: name, category, rating, address, phone, website and whether it is open.Google DriveAppCloud storage and file backupRemove duplicatesLogicKeeps one of each item when the same one arrives more than once, for example from two searches that overlap.NewsxMap dataStories from news feeds (RSS or Atom) or a website’s news page: title, link, when, the source and a short summary.Ships (AIS)xMap dataShips at sea or in port right now, from AIS (the signal ships send with their position, speed and heading; live from AISStream): every vessel heard in the Area of interest before this block, or around a point.ChatTriggerStarts the flow when someone writes in its chat: the chat window in the editor, or a chat page you can share or put on your website.AI agentxMap AIAn AI agent: for each incoming message it thinks, uses the blocks you link to its Tools port (data, xMap AI, lookups, your tables, other flows, apps), remembers the conversation and writes an answer in {{reply}}.ReplyActionAnswers whoever started the flow, on the same channel: the app or system that called its Webhook / API gets the answer back, and a message from Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, Teams, SMS, Outlook or DiscorWhen something changesTriggerStarts the flow when something changes around your places, instead of on a timer: a new place of a kind opens nearby, a rating drops below a line, a place closes, or a road is closed near a site.ApprovalLogicStops the run until someone says yes.Run another flowLogicRuns one of your other flows with the items that reach this block, once with all of them or once for each (a loop), and can carry on with what that flow found.Microsoft OutlookAppRuns an action in Microsoft Outlook.

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Learn and get help

The ideas behind these flows, step-by-step guides and help articles for the blocks this industry uses most. More in Resources, or see how xMap Flows compares with other tools.

Guides and decks

Questions

Can xMap Flows monitor land change?

Yes. Satellite images give the latest clear picture of each site you list, every few weeks, so change can be compared over time.

Can it plan for heat waves?

Yes. It combines the forecast with residents over sixty (Demographics) and places that can serve as cooling centres.

Does it help sustainability sales?

Yes. Companies likely to need audits, solar or waste services, scored and sent to your CRM.

Which data is live?

Live: xMap's places database (300M+ places of more than 5,000 kinds), live business listings from online maps, job postings, road incidents, ships (AIS), satellite pictures, weather forecasts, news from the feeds and pages you choose, travel-time areas and routes on the road network, and residents by age (Demographics, in about 100 countries), live road speeds and congestion (Traffic Flow; it does not count cars), footfall around each place (Mobility Footfall, in most of the world, about 10 days behind), plus regional datasets where xMap offers them, such as cars counted on the roads of the United Arab Emirates (Road traffic history). Catchment returns sample figures for now, and every result made from it says so.

Do I need to write code?

No. A flow is built from blocks on a canvas, from a ready-made template, or by describing it to Ask xMap in a sentence; Ask xMap builds it, tests it and fixes what fails. Developers can also use the API and the MCP server.

How fast can a environment & climate team start?

Hire one of the AI employees above: answer two questions (the city and the kind of place), or write one sentence to make it yours ("for dental clinics in Lyon, to WhatsApp every Monday"), and it runs in your own account with results you can see. A new account can also type its website and meet three AI employees already tried in its city. Or try the home page first: no account needed.

Can an agency or consultancy offer this to its clients?

Yes. Your logo and colour on the app, emails and reports, emails from your own domain, the app on your own address, and a read-only page for each client with its results, map and weekly report. See the Partners page.

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