Executing geo distance aggregations
Among the other standard types that we have seen in the previous aggregations, Elasticsearch allows for executing aggregations against a GeoPoint: the geo distance aggregations. This is an evolution of the previous discussed range aggregations built to work on geo locations.
Getting ready
You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation, as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 2, Downloading and Setup.
To execute curl via the command-line, you need to install curl for your operative system.
To correctly execute the following command, you need an index populated with the script (chapter_08/populate_aggregations.sh) available in the online code.
How to do it...
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