Mapping a GeoPoint field

Elasticsearch natively supports the use of geolocation types: special types that allow localizing your document in geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) around the world.

There are two main types used in geographic world: the point and the shape. In this recipe, we'll see geo point--the base element of geo location.

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.

How to do it...

The type of the field must be set to geo_point to define a GeoPoint.

We can extend the order example adding a new field that stores the location of a customer. This will be the result:

{ 
    "order": { 
        "properties": { 
            "id": { 
                "type": "keyword", 
                "store": "yes" 
            }, 
            "date": { 
                "type": "date" 
            }, 
        ...