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Elasticsearch Essentials
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Elasticsearch Essentials

by Bharvi Dixit
January 2016
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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Working with geo-point data

Geo-points are single location points defined by a latitude-longitude pair on the surface of the earth. Using geo-points you can do the following things:

  • Calculate the distance between two points
  • Find the document that falls in a specified rectangular area
  • Sort documents based on distance and score results based on it
  • Create clusters of geo-points using aggregations

Mapping geo-point fields

Unlike all the data types in Elasticsearch, geo-point fields can't be determined dynamically. So, you have to define the mapping in advance before indexing data. The mapping for a geo-point field can be defined in the following format:

"location": {
    "type": "geo_point"
}

A geo_point mapping indexes a single field (the location in our example) ...

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