Plots I am watching, from space every quarter
Every clear satellite picture of your plots this quarter, with a note for the land team.
What it does
Every month: every clear satellite picture of each plot in the last 90 days, the people living around it, a short note by xMap AI for the land team, saved to Google Drive and emailed.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, take your table, get satellite pictures, count who lives around, write a summary of each with xMap AI, then create file from text in Google Drive and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Watching plots by visiting them is slow and costly. Pictures from space show encroachment and activity, with who lives around for context.
Who it is for
Construction & facility services. Contractors, building suppliers and facility managers finding work, watching sites and keeping crews safe. Every use case for construction & facilities
Best use cases
- A land acquisition team
- A developer watching plots
- A lender monitoring land collateral
What each run gives you
- Notes in Google Drive
- An email
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 120 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 2 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Plots I am watchingYour data · My dataBrings in a table you uploaded or a list you saved on the My data page: your stores, customers, target accounts or sites.
- Every clear picture this quarterxMap data · Satellite imagesRecent 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.
- Who lives aroundxMap data · DemographicsWho 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).
- Write the plot notexMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Save the notes to Google DriveApp · Google DriveCloud storage and file backup
- Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- 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.
- Enrich a list once: A CSV of addresses or companies back with phone, website, rating and an AI score.
- Count what is around each of your places: Competitors, footfall magnets or services within a distance of each site.
- Satellite imagery (Sentinel-2): Regular free pictures of the Earth from space.
- How to get a weekly satellite picture of your sites: See construction or land change without visiting.
- How to score candidate store sites: Compare sites on residents, competitors and neighbours, with an AI score and a reason.
More for Construction & facility services
- Where building is booming and suppliers are few: Where building is booming and building suppliers are few, with a market report.
- Contractors winning work: hiring site engineers: Contractors hiring site engineers, scored as buyers, with their procurement manager.
- A vetted list of subcontractors, every month: Contractors vetted from their ratings, likely to finish on time, every month.
- Property managers for my maintenance contracts: Property managers and who buys maintenance, into HubSpot every week.
- Morning site briefing: weather and road closures: A morning briefing for each site: pours and lifts to avoid, heat precautions and road closures.
- New buildings that need facility management: New large buildings and their facilities managers, into HubSpot every month.