# How to calculate walking distance with DISTANCE column
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-calculate-walking-distance-with-distance-column/66978
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**Created:** [October 14, 2023, 6:40pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-calculate-walking-distance-with-distance-column/66978 "2023-10-14T18:40:58Z")
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### Author:  [@ohad](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ohad)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2023, 6:40pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-calculate-walking-distance-with-distance-column/66978/1 "2023-10-14T18:40:58Z")
Hi, I would like to calculate the walking distance of my users.
I did not understand how the Distance column works.
Is it based on GPS?
My main goal: I would like the user to press START (as for start the walk), and when finish to press STOP, and then to calculate the distance.
1. How can the user enter the current location when press START?
2. I would like to measure the distance few times a day (when pressed start and stoop) How can I “bring” the current location each time?
3. What happen if the user is at home(under roof) and no signal available? Can i show the user an alert for ‘no gps’?
4. Is this feature works only from A to B, or IF the user walks from A to B back and forth? for example, the users walks 1 km total, but 100m each direction 10 times.
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2023, 12:07am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-to-calculate-walking-distance-with-distance-column/66978/2 "2023-10-15T00:07:37Z")
In short, if you plan it to be a distance/step tracker for joggers/runners, I doubt it would work.
> [@ohad](#):
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> I did not understand how the Distance column works.
It calculates a distance between two addresses/coordinates.
> [@ohad](#):
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> How can the user enter the current location when press START?
You have to use a Location component so it writes to a “current location” column in your database. I believe the component does track the real-time location of the user, but I don’t know the frequency of it being updated.
> [@Live Location - not for production use](https://community.glideapps.com/t/live-location-not-for-production-use/26227/24):
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> It was a fun challenge and I had it pretty accurate and able to dynamically move the 3 points, so the tri-lateration always kept up and I always had an accurate location because I would always be within the 3 points. The only problem is, I think glide has a bug somewhere where javascript crashes and can’t recover, so the app would halfway stop responding after a few minutes. I had put Try Catches in the code, but there would still be a hard crash somewhere. Now, the newer Location component i…
> [@ohad](#):
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> I would like to measure the distance few times a day (when pressed start and stoop) How can I “bring” the current location each time?
When you click “Start”, write the current location to a user-specific column, let’s call it “Start location”, end when the user clicks “End”, write the current location to another user-specific column, let’s call it “End location”. Submit it to a Logs table and calculate the distance between those 2 points.
> [@ohad](#):
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> Is this feature works only from A to B, or IF the user walks from A to B back and forth? for example, the users walks 1 km total, but 100m each direction 10 times.
In this case, it doesn’t work. It simply calculates the distance between 2 coordinates, not the “distance” or “steps” you usually see in Apple Health, for example.