Blocks with no fire station within 5 km

Blocks with many people and no fire station within 5 km.

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What it does

Every year: the blocks of your city with many residents and no fire station within 5 km, ranked, with a note by xMap AI for where a new station would cover most people, emailed and mapped.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Ho Chi Minh City, count who lives around, sort them by population and keep the top 80, count the fire stations within 5 km of each, sort them by nearby_count and keep the top 15, write a report with xMap AI, then show them on a map and email the list to you.

Why it is useful

Response times depend on distance. Knowing where people live far from a station shows where the next one should go.

Who it is for

Security, safety & emergency services. Security companies, alarm installers, police, fire and ambulance services and safety teams covering people and places. Every use case for security & emergency services

Best use cases

  • A fire service
  • A city planning team
  • A property insurer

What each run gives you

  • A map
  • An email

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: 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. 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. Fire stations within 5 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. The least covered 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 coverage notexMap 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.

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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

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