# Measure distance between places

Model / geo

A variant of [Work with geography](https://meridian.online/operations/work-with-geography).

Compute the distance between two points or geometries, planar, great-circle or by road.

Page: <https://meridian.online/operations/work-with-geography/measure-distance-between-places>

## Status

Not built yet.

arcform does not do this yet. [Its place on the roadmap](https://meridian.online/roadmap#work-with-geography)

## What other tools call it

Meridian's classification; an independent blind rating agreed on 95.7% of 324 rows (variant, version 3).

- Alteryx Designer: [`Distance`](https://help.alteryx.com/current/en/designer/tools/spatial/distance-tool.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Bruin: [`bruin.haversine_distance(lat1, lon1, lat2, lon2, unit='mi')`](https://getbruin.com/docs/bruin/assets/templating/macros.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- dbt-utils: [`haversine_distance`](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dbt-labs/dbt-utils/main/README.md) (read 2026-09-27)
- Duckle: [`Spatial Distance`](https://github.com/slothflowlabs/duckle/blob/f85f8960edfb6efbf4cb89d58a7b32e16df0e867/website/docs/components.html) (read 2026-09-25)
- Ibis: [`GeoDistance`](https://github.com/ibis-project/ibis/blob/05d2b293344e86cb41c1a426071734f7e270335a/ibis/expr/operations/geospatial.py) (read 2026-09-27)
- Ibis: [`GeoMaxDistance`](https://github.com/ibis-project/ibis/blob/05d2b293344e86cb41c1a426071734f7e270335a/ibis/expr/operations/geospatial.py) (read 2026-09-27)
- SQLMesh: [`@HAVERSINE_DISTANCE`](https://github.com/SQLMesh/sqlmesh/blob/23b237cea7218cc8f338b89c14f0957394a0003b/docs/concepts/macros/sqlmesh_macros.md) (read 2026-09-27)