Where to open the next phone shop

What it does

Every month: the 100 most populated blocks of your city, the phone shops within 1 km, the people per shop, scored by xMap AI, approved, saved to Google Drive, emailed and mapped.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Delhi, count who lives around, sort them by population and keep the top 100, count the cell phone stores and mobile phone repair shops within 1 km of each, work out new fields, sort them by people_per_shop and keep the top 20, score and rank them with xMap AI, wait for approval, then create file from text in Google Drive, email the list to you and show them on a map.

Why it is useful

A phone shop sells to the people who live around it. This flow finds the blocks with many people and few shops, every month.

Who it is for

Telecom & connectivity. Mobile operators, internet providers and phone retailers planning shops, dealers and network capacity. Every use case for telecom

Best use cases

• A mobile operator planning shops
• A phone retailer
• A device brand opening stores

What each run gives you

• A shortlist to approve
• Data in Google Drive
• A map

The time it saves

Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 300 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 5 hours a month (an estimate). It is advanced: 12 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 100 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. Phone shops nearbyxMap 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 shopLogic · Calculated fieldAdds fields worked out from the others: a number, a text or a yes/no.
7. Best 20 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. Rate each block with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
9. Approve the shortlistLogic · ApprovalStops the run until someone says yes.
10. Save the shortlist to Google DriveApp · Google DriveCloud storage and file backup
11. Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
12. 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.