Morning city newsletter: roads, weather and what opened

What it does

Every weekday at 6:00: three things in one newsletter draft: road closures today, the weather, and places that opened this week, joined by xMap AI into a short morning newsletter and sent from your Gmail to the editor.

In one sentence: Mon–Fri at 06:00, in Bogota, find road closures, roadworks and other incidents, get the 1-day weather forecast, find restaurants, coffee shops and clothing stores in the area, write a report with xMap AI, then send email in Gmail and email the list to you.

Why it is useful

Morning newsletters are read but take an hour to make. Three live sources joined into a draft cut that to a quick edit.

Who it is for

Media, newsrooms & publishing. Newsrooms, broadcasters, publishers and media sales teams who need local stories, audiences and advertisers first. Every use case for media & publishing

Best use cases

• A local news site’s newsletter
• A city app’s morning brief
• A community radio’s website

What each run gives you

• A draft from your Gmail

The time it saves

Mon–Fri at 06:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 60 minutes each time; it runs about 22 times a month, so it saves about 22 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 8 blocks.

The flow, block by block

1. Every weekday morningTrigger · 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. Closures todayxMap data · Traffic incidentsRoad closures, roadworks and other incidents on online maps right now, with where they are.
4. Forecast for 1 daysxMap data · Weather forecastThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
5. Opened this weekxMap 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.
6. Write the newsletterxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
7. Send the draft to the editorApp · GmailEmail service by Google
8. Email me the resultsAction · 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.