Ask the map a question
How many of a kind of place, how many people for each, and where the gaps are, answered on the spot.
Ask Ask xMap (or the box on Flows) a question about places, such as How many pharmacies are there in Lyon, and where are the gaps? It reads the kind of place, the place and the distance (1, 2 or 5 km; 5 km when you do not say), and shows what the answer costs before anything runs: a search for each kind of place, and one of who lives there when you ask about people or gaps, as a run would.
- Answer it searches xMap’s places database (the nearest 500 of each kind) and, for people, xMap’s population grid.
- The answer gives the count, how many are chains or independent, the average rating, the people living there and how many people for each place.
- The biggest gaps: the circle is cut into nine parts, and the parts where the most people live for each place are named (north-east, the centre...) and shown on the small map.
- Where xMap has no population figures, it says so and shows where there are fewest instead.
Make this run every week saves the same question as a flow (a draft): every Monday it finds the places, keeps the new ones and emails them, with all of them on a map. Change anything, then press Run once or Deploy.
Templates that use these blocks
Site advisor chat for the expansion teamA chat where your expansion team names any address and gets people, competitors and a verdict.Neighbourhood guide chat for buyersA chat that tells buyers about any neighbourhood, like a local agent.Field sales helper chatA chat that tells field reps which shops are near them today.Meeting prep chat for repsA chat for reps: name the business you are meeting and get a short brief with questions to ask.