Hot weekend ahead: which beaches will be busiest
Which beaches will be busiest this weekend, with a staffing note.
What it does
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.
In one sentence: Thursdays at 12:00, in Lisbon, find beaches in the area, get the 4-day weather forecast, count who lives around, sort them by population and keep the top 10, write a report with xMap AI, then email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Hot weekends crowd some beaches far more than others. Lifeguards and crews go where the people will be.
Who it is for
Environment, climate & sustainability. Sustainability teams, environmental consultancies, recyclers and city climate offices who need facts about places to act on. Every use case for environment & climate
Best use cases
- A coastal city’s beach services
- A lifeguard service
- A beach clean-up organisation
What each run gives you
- An email
The time it saves
Thursdays at 12:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 30 minutes each time; it runs about 5 times a month, so it saves about 3 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 8 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every ThursdayTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Our coastWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- BeachesxMap 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.
- Forecast for 4 daysxMap data · Weather forecastThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
- 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).
- Best 10 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.
- Write the staffing notexMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- 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.
- Count what is around each of your places: Competitors, footfall magnets or services within a distance of each site.
- Compare sites side by side: Two or three spots measured the same way, one column each, the best of every row marked and the best site and why.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- Site selection: Choosing where to open a store, branch, clinic or facility.
- Satellite imagery (Sentinel-2): Regular free pictures of the Earth from space.
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- Energy-hungry buildings for energy audits: Big energy users with their facility manager, approved for audits.
- Busy restaurants for food waste collection: The busiest kitchens graded as food waste collection clients.