# Allow user to show current location in Maps (newest version)
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-show-current-location-in-maps-newest-version/72491
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [April 11, 2024, 3:15pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-show-current-location-in-maps-newest-version/72491 "2024-04-11T15:15:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@MegannLock](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MegannLock)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2024, 3:15pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-show-current-location-in-maps-newest-version/72491/1 "2024-04-11T15:15:43Z")
In the Classic version of Glide, when using a map layout, we could toggle on “Allow user to show current location”. Please implement this in the newest version of Glide 😀
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### Author:  [@fk1214](https://community.glideapps.com/u/fk1214)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2024, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-show-current-location-in-maps-newest-version/72491/2 "2024-04-11T16:04:20Z")
> **[Location | Glide Docs](https://www.glideapps.com/docs/essentials/components/location)**
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> Log the device's current location.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2024, 4:09pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-show-current-location-in-maps-newest-version/72491/3 "2024-04-11T16:09:41Z")
@fk1214 She meant this on Classic Apps
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### Author:  [@fk1214](https://community.glideapps.com/u/fk1214)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-show-current-location-in-maps-newest-version/72491/4 "2024-04-11T16:15:23Z")
Oh 🙃
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### Author:  [@MegannLock](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MegannLock)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2024, 4:39pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-show-current-location-in-maps-newest-version/72491/5 "2024-04-11T16:39:20Z")
Correct-a-mundo! Super helpful when an app’s main use case is to navigate & display locations nearby. I could use Radar and some CSS/row trickery to get my user’s location to show up as a pin with actual locations, but this feature was clutch in Classic!
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2024, 5:01pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-show-current-location-in-maps-newest-version/72491/6 "2024-04-11T17:01:51Z")
Yeah, I’ve used a trick in the past where one of the rows in my table stores the location component value, then I use an IF column to return either the user location from that one row, or the other locations from the rest of the rows. Then display the IF result on a map. I’m not sure it works as well as it used to now. Doesn’t seem to update the location as rapidly, and without CSS, the pin is indistinguishable from the rest.
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### Author:  [@Luther](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Luther)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2024, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-show-current-location-in-maps-newest-version/72491/7 "2024-04-11T18:03:36Z")
Voted!
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### Author:  [@NFNHello](https://community.glideapps.com/u/NFNHello)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2024, 7:37pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-show-current-location-in-maps-newest-version/72491/8 "2024-04-11T19:37:37Z")
Voted!
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### Author:  [@MegannLock](https://community.glideapps.com/u/MegannLock)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2024, 3:23pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-show-current-location-in-maps-newest-version/72491/9 "2024-04-18T15:23:42Z")
Thank you guys!
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### Author:  [@Kris\_Hale](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Kris_Hale)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2024, 4:33pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-show-current-location-in-maps-newest-version/72491/10 "2024-06-29T16:33:11Z")
Voted, this feature is integral to my apps
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### Author:  [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2025, 12:38pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-show-current-location-in-maps-newest-version/72491/11 "2025-07-24T12:38:16Z")
A year later — no update. Upvote please!
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### Author:  [@prolost](https://community.glideapps.com/u/prolost)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2025, 7:49pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-show-current-location-in-maps-newest-version/72491/12 "2025-09-12T19:49:53Z")
Just here to add a vote and bump this thread. I never used classic and I can’t believe we could once do this and then lost the ability. Please add it back!
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### Author:  [@Luther](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Luther)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2025, 8:15am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-show-current-location-in-maps-newest-version/72491/13 "2025-09-23T08:15:55Z")
Just here to bump this up the queue. This is a very much needed feature. Bring it back please
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2025, 9:25am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/allow-user-to-show-current-location-in-maps-newest-version/72491/14 "2025-09-23T09:25:36Z")
> [@Current location of the user as a separate point on map](https://community.glideapps.com/t/current-location-of-the-user-as-a-separate-point-on-map/59802/15):
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> Okay, so after a bit of back and forth with ChatGPT I got a version that works reasonably well. It accepts any number of points and uses the best 3. This is what we wound up with: const points = JSON.parse(p1); return (trilaterate(points)); function trilaterate(points) { const R = 6371000; // Earth radius in meters // Convert lat/lon to Cartesian (ECEF) function toCartesian(lat, lon) { lat = lat \* Math.PI / 180; lon = lon \* Math.PI / 180; return [ R \* Math.cos(lat) \* …