Busy stations with no convenience store

What it does

Every month: the train and metro stations of your city, how many convenience and grocery stores are within 250 m of each, the 15 with the fewest, who lives within 500 m, scored by xMap AI as spots for a small store, mapped and emailed.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Paris, find train stations and subway stations in the area, count the convenience stores and grocery stores within 250 m of each, sort them by nearby_count and keep the top 15, count who lives around, score and rank them with xMap AI, then show them on a map and email the list to you.

Why it is useful

Commuters buy on the way, and a station with no shop next to it is an open door. This flow finds them across the city every month, with the people living around each.

Who it is for

Retail & franchise expansion. Expansion, real estate and network planning teams deciding where the next store or franchise goes. Every use case for retail & franchise

Best use cases

• A convenience store chain
• A coffee and snacks kiosk brand
• A bakery opening small units

What each run gives you

• A score and reason for each station
• A map of stations to open at
• An email of the best spots

The time it saves

Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 90 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 2 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 9 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. Stations in the cityxMap 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. Shops around each stationxMap 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.
5. The fewest nearby 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.
6. 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).
7. Score each station with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
8. Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
9. 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.