Location

Know the Distance Before You Open a Map

Volunteer signs up and enters their address. The Distance Calculator computes the distance to your three closest sites and saves it to the record. Assign territories, plan routes, and filter by proximity, all automatically.

Set Up Distance Calculation

Sound familiar?

Volunteer Coordinator

You assign volunteers to the nearest site manually. It takes an hour to look up distances for 50 new signups every month.

Sales Operations

Territory assignment depends on distance to regional offices. Your spreadsheet formula broke three months ago and nobody noticed.

Delivery Manager

You need to filter orders by distance from the warehouse. Right now it's a gut feeling based on ZIP code.

What it does

Point-to-point distance

Calculate distance between two addresses or coordinate pairs on the same record. Straight-line or driving distance.

Fixed reference point

Set a fixed location (your office, warehouse, campus) and calculate distance from every record to that point.

Multiple units

Get results in miles, kilometers, or both. Saved as number fields for filtering and sorting.

Automatic calculation

Runs after every form submission. Distance is computed and saved before you see the new record.

How to set it up

Set origin and destination

Choose two address or coordinate fields on the record, or set a fixed reference point as one of the locations.

Choose calculation method

Select straight-line (Haversine) for fast calculation or driving distance for road-based routing.

Set output options

Pick the number field for the distance result. Choose miles, kilometers, or both.

Enable

Turn on the calculator. Distances compute automatically on every new form submission.

Going deeper

Calculation methods

Haversine (straight-line, fast)
Driving distance via road network
Walking distance
Custom formula for weighted distances

Reference options

Two fields on the same record
Fixed location (address or coordinates)
Linked record location
Multiple reference points with closest match

Output

Distance in miles
Distance in kilometers
Estimated travel time
Zone assignment based on distance ranges

Frequently asked questions

Straight-line or driving distance?

Both are available. Haversine (straight-line) is instant. Driving distance uses road network data and takes a second or two.

Can I calculate distance to multiple locations?

Set up multiple calculator instances, one per reference point. Or use the 'closest match' option to find the nearest from a list of locations.

Does it require geocoded addresses?

If you have coordinates, it uses them directly. If you only have addresses, pair it with the Geocoder tool to convert addresses first.

How accurate is driving distance?

Driving distances use current road network data. Accuracy is within 5% of actual driving distance for most routes.

More processor tools

Geocoder

Convert addresses to coordinates and vice versa.

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