A graph G = (V, E) with geodesic distance d(•, •) is said to be resolved by a non-empty subset R of its vertices when, for all vertices u and v, if d(u, r) = d(v, r) for each r ∈ R, then u = v. The metric dimension of G is the cardinality of its smallest resolving set. In this manuscript, we present and investigate the notions of resolvability and metric dimension when the geodesic distance is truncated with a certain threshold k; namely, we measure distances in G using the metric d k (u, v) := min{d(u, v), k +1}. We denote the metric dimension of G with respect to d k as β k (G). We study the behavior of this quantity with respect to k as well as the diameter of G. We also characterize the truncated metric dimension of paths and cycles as well as graphs with extreme metric dimension, including graphs of order n such that β k (G) = n − 2 and β k (G) = n − 1. We conclude with a study of various problems related to the truncated metric dimension of trees.