Cooling centres for the heat wave

What it does

In the hot season: libraries, community centres and malls in each district with how many seniors live around them, ranked, as cooling centres for the civil protection office.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Lahore, find libraries, community centers and shopping malls in the area, count who lives around, work out new fields, sort them by seniors and keep the top 20, then show them on a map and email the list to you.

Why it is useful

Heat waves hit the old hardest. Cooling centres near them save lives.

Who it is for

Government & smart cities. Municipalities, agencies and city teams planning services and keeping residents safe and informed. Every use case for government & cities

Best use cases

• A civil protection office
• A city health department
• A Red Crescent branch

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: 8 blocks.

The flow, block by block

1. On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
2. My cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
3. Cool public buildingsxMap 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.
4. 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).
5. Seniors nearbyLogic · Calculated fieldAdds fields worked out from the others: a number, a text or a yes/no.
6. Best 20 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.
7. Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
8. 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.