Approximating points in $\{0,1\}^n$

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Let $A=\{0,1\}^n$ with distance $d(x,y)=\sum_i |x_i-y_i|$ (i.e. for example with $n=2$ we have $d([0,1],[1,0])=2$).

Given $m<n$ how well can we "approximate $A$" with a subset of cardinality $m$?

Formally, I want to know

$$g(m):=\inf_{S\subset A,\ \#S=m} \sup_{x \in A} d(x,S)$$

I tried to do it by myself, founding some trivial cases $$g(1)=n$$ $$g(2)=\frac{n}{2}$$

but then I can't proceed. Also I think that such a simple problem must have been treated by someone before me