Schools as polling stations and the voters around them

What it does

Before an election: schools and community centres in your city with how many adults live within 1 km of each, ranked, for the polling station plan.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Kathmandu, find schools and community centers in the area, count who lives around, work out new fields, sort them by adults and keep the top 50, then show them on a map and email the list to you.

Why it is useful

Polling stations should be close to voters. The busiest areas need the most.

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

• An election commission
• A city elections office
• A civic NGO

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. Schools and community centresxMap 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. Adults aroundLogic · Calculated fieldAdds fields worked out from the others: a number, a text or a yes/no.
6. Best 50 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.