Towns on the highway short of fuel stations
Highway towns with the fewest fuel stations.
What it does
When planning new stations: the towns along your highway corridor with how many fuel stations are within 5 km, the fewest first, for the network planning team.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Johannesburg and Durban, find truck stops, rest stops and shopping malls in the area, count the gas stations within 5 km of each, sort them by nearby_count and keep the top 15, then show them on a map and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Drivers stop where stations are. Gaps on a corridor are the best sites.
Who it is for
Energy, EV & utilities. Fuel retailers, EV charging networks, solar companies and utilities planning sites and serving customers. Every use case for energy & ev
Best use cases
- A fuel retailer
- A truck stop developer
- A fuel station investor
What each run gives you
- An email with the list
- A map of the results
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.
- Corridor townsWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Towns and junctionsxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces 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 a whole group of them) and how far to look.
- Fuel stations within 5 kmxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces 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 a whole group of them) and how far to look.
- The fewest nearby firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
- Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
- 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
- The xMap Flows browser extension: what is around this business: On a company’s website or a place on a map, one click shows its market and the AI employees to hire for it.
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- What xMap remembers about your company: Your city, industry and what you sell, filled in for you and always yours to change.
- 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.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- POI data (points of interest): Records of places such as shops, clinics and offices, with their category, position and details.
- Catchment area: The area a store or service draws its customers from.
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