Every monument in Naples, seen from above each week
Giulia is a heritage officer for the city of Naples. She looks after sixty protected monuments in the old town.
Listen to the story:
The challenge
She and one inspector cannot walk past every site each week. Unpermitted roof work and new terraces go up in days. By the time a neighbour complains, the damage is months old and the fine is the only tool left.
How the flow works
With xMap Flows, Giulia built Sentinel. Sentinel is an AI employee: a flow of 6 blocks.
Every Monday at seven,
Every Monday at 7 (Schedule)
for each of her sixty protected sites,
Sixty protected sites (My data)
Sentinel fetches this week’s satellite picture,
This week’s picture (Satellite images)
keeps only the clear ones,
Clear skies only (Filter)
pins them on a map,
The week’s map (Show on a map)
and saves the week’s file in the inspection folder.
Inspection folder (Google Drive)
What it solves
- Sixty sites, two people: solved by Schedule and Satellite images
- Work found months late: solved by Filter and Google Drive
- Fines, not prevention: solved by Show on a map and Google Drive
The result
Every Monday Giulia opens one folder: a fresh, clear picture of each monument from the last few days. In ten minutes she spots new scaffolding on two roofs and sends the inspector that same morning.
Giulia stopped finding out from neighbours. Now she sees the city before they do.
An illustrative scenario: the figures are modelled to show what the flow produces, not a customer's results.
The flow, block by block
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- 2
Sixty protected sites
Brings in a table you uploaded or a list you saved on the My data page: your stores, customers, target accounts or sites.
- 3
This week’s picture
Recent 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.
- 4
- 5
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Templates to build it
Ready-made flows with the same blocks. Open one, change the city and the kind of place, and run it.
- Plots I am watching, from space every quarterEvery clear satellite picture of your plots this quarter, with a note for the land team.
- Weekly field watch from spaceThe latest clear satellite picture of each field, with the week's weather and a note.
- ESG section: people, services and land around each sitePeople, services and land around each site, as an ESG section.
- Land offers, checked from space and the groundEvery plot offered to you checked from space and the ground, scored and approved.
- Camp growth seen from space, every monthHow each camp is changing, seen from space every month.
- Remote site perimeters, from space every weekWeekly satellite pictures of remote site perimeters, with notes.
Industries
Learn how it works
- Data enrichmentAdding details to records you already have.
- Satellite imagery (Sentinel-2)Regular free pictures of the Earth from space.
- How to score candidate store sitesCompare sites on residents, competitors and neighbours, with an AI score and a reason.
- Satellite imagesThe latest clear picture of each site.
- Your own tables and lists (My data)Upload a CSV, save lists of results, and use them in flows.
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Build this flow on your own city
Run a live search on the home page without an account, or let Ask xMap build the flow from one sentence.