# Map proximity action **URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/map-proximity-action/2032638 **Category:** Maps **Created:** [September 8, 2022, 7:05am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/map-proximity-action/2032638 "2022-09-08T07:05:42Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang) #### Post date: [September 8, 2022, 2:33pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/map-proximity-action/2032638/2 "2022-09-08T14:33:48Z")
You can determine distance by using the Haversine formula. There are several topics on it so I suggest searching the forums. Here’s one example: > [@Math Help - Formula not working](https://community.thunkable.com/t/math-help-formula-not-working/917769/15): > > Hi guys, I know I’m like a year late but I got it to work! @drted’s api solution was great but network here in my country is quite slow and it would be a pain on bad days and even worse for a batch requests if I had to use a for loop. It works in degrees as of testing and you can see the blocks below as well a sample test I did. I double checked with radians in excel and it returned the same answer. TEST BLOCKS The … --- _[View the full topic](https://community.thunkable.com/t/map-proximity-action/2032638)._