Traffic bulletin for the radio, every 30 minutes
A ready-to-read traffic bulletin every 30 minutes in the rush hours.
What it does
Every 30 minutes in the rush hours: road closures, roadworks and incidents across your city, turned by xMap AI into a 20-second traffic bulletin the presenter can read, posted to the newsroom channel.
In one sentence: Every 30 minutes, 06:00–10:00, Mon–Fri, in Lagos, find road closures, roadworks and other incidents, write a report with xMap AI, then send message to a channel in Slack and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Producers spend the morning stitching traffic updates by hand. This flow writes the bulletin from live incidents, so the presenter only has to read it.
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 radio station’s traffic desk
- A TV breakfast show
- A city transport channel
What each run gives you
- A Slack post every 30 minutes
The time it saves
Every 30 minutes. Doing the same work by hand takes about 15 minutes each time; it runs about 176 times a month, so it saves about 40 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 6 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every 30 minutesTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- My cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Closures and incidents nowxMap data · Traffic incidentsRoad closures, roadworks and other incidents on online maps right now, with where they are.
- Write the bulletinxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Post it to #newsdeskApp · SlackChannel-based messaging platform
- 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.
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.
- Enrich a list once: A CSV of addresses or companies back with phone, website, rating and an AI score.
- Traffic incidents and road closures: Closures and roadworks in an area or near each of your places.
- Score, rank and label with xMap LLM: A score and a reason for every result, in your words.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- Reverse geocoding: Turning coordinates into a street, district or address.
- Site selection: Choosing where to open a store, branch, clinic or facility.
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