# Maps how to find nearest available driver
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/maps-how-to-find-nearest-available-driver/79026
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**Created:** [January 7, 2025, 7:51am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/maps-how-to-find-nearest-available-driver/79026 "2025-01-07T07:51:09Z")
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### Author:  [@BROREZ\_JAYA](https://community.glideapps.com/u/BROREZ_JAYA)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2025, 7:51am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/maps-how-to-find-nearest-available-driver/79026/1 "2025-01-07T07:51:09Z")
please help, I am now making a goods delivery application, please help if anyone understands, about Finding drivers from nearest locations of a given location
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2025, 12:01am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/maps-how-to-find-nearest-available-driver/79026/2 "2025-01-08T00:01:58Z")
To do that, you must have access to individual drivers’ location at any time. That would be possible with the location component, but I haven’t tested it myself recently to know if it eats too much into your updates.
> [@Live Location - not for production use](https://community.glideapps.com/t/live-location-not-for-production-use/26227/27):
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> I don’t have a video on how I set any of this up. To be honest, it hasn’t been very reliable and occasionally crashes, at least for the stuff I was doing. My original version did a lot of trigonometry to calculate a live location, but it was not something that would be updated on the database. All of that math became unnecessary with New Apps, because the location component updates the location continuously. At the most basic level you could add a location component and have it write to a co…
Once you have the live location, you can use the distance column to calculate each driver’s distance to a specific location/coordinates.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/maps-how-to-find-nearest-available-driver/79026/3 "2025-01-08T18:36:16Z")
Personally I don’t think Glide is a good choice for apps that require tracking live location of other users. I have written about my thoughts in the following post.
> [@Geolocation for permanent Tracking](https://community.glideapps.com/t/geolocation-for-permanent-tracking/76817/2):
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> I’m going to be honest here. I don’t think a web app is well suited for something like this. I say that because it requires an app to be open and active on the screen at all times. Turning the screen off or switching to a different app on your device is going to kill that connection, so drivers would not be able to use their device for anything else or be able to turn the screen off. Plus, for it to work with the native location component, it would require constant and rapid updates to the t…