Hello,
I misread your statement and have removed my initial statement.
The map view along with the filter bar does provide a distance from an initial point of events.
It still sorts by date, but above the Event title is the distance from an initial search.
To make that a default look you could setup the filter and search bar location how you would like and then copy the url and use that to link to the events and it will use that initial search from a location.
Does that make sense? Let me know if you would like some more help.
Thanks
Here is what it looks like using both add ons:
