# How can I only show map markers based on the user's current view?
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-can-i-only-show-map-markers-based-on-the-users-current-view/2240216
**Category:** Maps
**Created:** [January 25, 2023, 7:49am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-can-i-only-show-map-markers-based-on-the-users-current-view/2240216 "2023-01-25T07:49:50Z")
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### Author:  [@hdawc](https://community.thunkable.com/u/hdawc)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2023, 7:49am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-can-i-only-show-map-markers-based-on-the-users-current-view/2240216/1 "2023-01-25T07:49:50Z")
I have between 10,000 and 50,000 map points that need to be shown within a city space.
Each of those markers has a lat and lon, but when loading them into google maps with blocks I can only really load all of them, this takes a while.
How can I store them and only show them based on the coordinates?
Google Maps itself has a “Search This Area” button to only load results.
I can create a button (thought I would rather it be automatic), so how can I load them (very quickly) based on that area?
Can I find the grid that maps is showing and the run through a stored list of points to filter out the ones that fit within that?
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2023, 9:37am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-can-i-only-show-map-markers-based-on-the-users-current-view/2240216/2 "2023-01-25T09:37:49Z")
I’d recommend letting a backend handle this type of work. Xano, backendless, Firebase/firestore can all do this for you quite easily
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### Author:  [@hdawc](https://community.thunkable.com/u/hdawc)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2023, 10:24am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-can-i-only-show-map-markers-based-on-the-users-current-view/2240216/3 "2023-01-25T10:24:56Z")
I have thought about that, but as phones are powerful enough to do this kind of compute when the data is already on the device (especially if it’s in a local DB), I thought it might be a better idea to generate this locally and save myself cloud compute.
But thanks, I’ll look into it some more.
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### Author:  [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2023, 10:51am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-can-i-only-show-map-markers-based-on-the-users-current-view/2240216/4 "2023-01-25T10:51:08Z")
In that case, check out this solution and the supplement
[[Solved] How do I find/add Map Markers Nearest to the User (Haversine formula)](https://community.thunkable.com/t/solved-how-do-i-find-add-map-markers-nearest-to-the-user-haversine-formula/598411)
[Distance between two coordinates](https://community.thunkable.com/t/distance-between-two-coordinates/591014)
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 1:37pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-can-i-only-show-map-markers-based-on-the-users-current-view/2240216/5 "2024-11-08T13:37:08Z")