Neighbourhoods far from a food bank

What it does

Every quarter: the blocks of your city with many residents and no food bank or soup kitchen within 2 km, ranked by people per food bank, written up by xMap AI for where to open the next distribution point, emailed and mapped.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Los Angeles, count who lives around, sort them by population and keep the top 80, count the food banks and soup kitchens within 2 km of each, work out new fields, sort them by per_bank and keep the top 15, write a report with xMap AI, then email the list to you and show them on a map.

Why it is useful

Food help is often far from the people who need it. This flow shows where a new point would reach the most people.

Who it is for

Non-profits, charities & humanitarian. NGOs, charities, aid agencies and community groups who need to reach people in need, find partners and report their impact. Every use case for non-profits & humanitarian

Best use cases

• A food bank network
• A city social services team
• A faith group running meals

What each run gives you

• An email
• A map of gaps

The time it saves

Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 240 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 4 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 10 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. People in every block of the cityxMap 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).
4. Best 80 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.
5. Food banks within 2 kmxMap 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. People per food bankLogic · Calculated fieldAdds fields worked out from the others: a number, a text or a yes/no.
7. Best 15 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.
8. Write the gap notexMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
9. Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
10. Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.

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.