# Maps how to find nearest available driver **URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/maps-how-to-find-nearest-available-driver/79026 **Category:** Ask for Help **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") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### 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: [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): > > 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. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.glideapps.com/t/maps-how-to-find-nearest-available-driver/79026)._