How to actually meet in the middle (and stop arguing about it)

Everyone says "let's meet in the middle." Almost no one actually does. Here's a quick guide to what "fair" really means when you're picking a spot for a group.

Halfway-between is not midpoint

The street address halfway between two homes is rarely the fairest place — traffic, transit, and one-way streets warp travel time. The geographic centroid is a much better starting point, and travel-time ranking makes it real.

For groups, use the centroid

When you have 3+ people, you want the centroid (average of all coordinates). It naturally balances travel for everyone — exactly what MidMeetup computes when you create a meetup.

Tooling makes it stick

The reason groups don't meet in the middle isn't that they don't want to — it's that calculating it manually is annoying. With a tool that does it instantly, fair meetings become the default.

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