# Calculate distance travelled

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**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Created:** [May 11, 2020, 8:23am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/calculate-distance-travelled/565278 "2020-05-11T08:23:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![jared](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/jared/32/138473_2.png) [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/calculate-distance-travelled/565278/18 "2020-10-04T17:51:13Z")

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Are you looking for something like this? Much easier when done server side. Particularly when you start dealing with bigger data sets

> [@How to get the closest distance to my point](http://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-get-the-closest-distance-to-my-point/791117/5):
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> I’m working on the tutorial for this!!! [UPDATE] you’re looking to get a response like [this](https://api.backendless.com/34292C6A-B3A7-83DD-FF79-EF9E6913F900/FD17E678-AFB3-49F3-9663-8CF8D54CE7C7/data/thunkableLocations?where=distanceOnSphere(%27POINT(-85.73455637260194%2042.46124149689038)%27%2C%20location)%20%3C%20mi(33.48396187841322)%20&props=distanceOnSphere(%27POINT(-85.66061443893842%2042.375649975692355)%27,%20location)%20*%200.000621371%20as%20milesToPoint,city,state&sortBy=milesToPoint) back, right? i create the milesToPoint property everytime the database is called using the URL scheme above. i include only milesToPoint,state,city,objectId. everything done very quickly by the DB server. The search was conducted using arbitrary coordinates near my home! without any fancy querying the response looks like this.

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