# Distance issue

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/distance-issue/75151>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [July 25, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/distance-issue/75151 "2024-07-25T01:36:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![gadibh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/gadibh/32/77994_2.png) [@gadibh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/gadibh)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/distance-issue/75151/1 "2024-07-25T01:36:55Z")

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Hello heroes.  
The distance option shows me an incorrect  
Distance between two locations  
Is there some calibration for distance?

Thank you.  
Gadi

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**Author:** ![FrancoisDigico](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/francoisdigico/32/75651_2.png) [@FrancoisDigico](https://community.glideapps.com/u/FrancoisDigico)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 2:14am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/distance-issue/75151/2 "2024-07-25T02:14:30Z")

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Hello,  
Didn’t test it yet, but distance is only a GPS coord.  
To use it, you’ll need 2 coordinates in a good formatted way for GPS.  
And eventually some helper tables in Glide Tables.  
Then an action to link it to some map.  
You have the basic tutorial here: [Distance | Glide Docs](https://www.glideapps.com/docs/distance-to-location)  
Have fun,

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 2:31am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/distance-issue/75151/3 "2024-07-25T02:31:20Z")

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Can you show us how you are formatting the “locations”?

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**Author:** ![gadibh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/gadibh/32/77994_2.png) [@gadibh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/gadibh)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 6:39am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/distance-issue/75151/4 "2024-07-25T06:39:28Z")

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Hi, and thank you.  
I just added the names of the locations.

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**Author:** ![FrancoisDigico](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/francoisdigico/32/75651_2.png) [@FrancoisDigico](https://community.glideapps.com/u/FrancoisDigico)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 6:53am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/distance-issue/75151/5 "2024-07-25T06:53:41Z")

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Hi, last part will be to plug it to Google Maps, or external app.

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 7:58am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/distance-issue/75151/6 "2024-07-25T07:58:40Z")

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You won’t get very good results just with location names. Especially if they are ambiguous, which most are. For best results you should use latitude/longitude, or a full address with a postal code and country name.