Storm coming: shelters and the people near them

What it does

Every six hours in storm season: the wind and rain forecast for your city, and when a storm is coming the schools and halls to open as shelters, with the people near each.

In one sentence: Every 6 hours at :00, in Manila, find schools, community centers and stadiums in the area, count who lives around, get the 2-day weather forecast, sort them by population and keep the top 20, write a report with xMap AI, then email the list to you.

Why it is useful

Shelters near many people save the most. The plan is ready before the storm.

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 disaster management office
• A city emergency team
• A Red Cross branch

What each run gives you

• An email

The time it saves

Every 6 hours at :00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 60 minutes each time; it runs about 120 times a month, so it saves about 40 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 8 blocks.

The flow, block by block

1. Every 6 hoursTrigger · 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. Shelter 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. Forecast for 2 daysxMap data · Weather forecastThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
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. Write the shelter planxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
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.