# Adding Building Maps to elastic

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-building-maps-to-elastic/381576>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 3, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-building-maps-to-elastic/381576 "2025-09-03T18:22:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![erikg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/91b2a8/32.png) [@erikg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/erikg)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-building-maps-to-elastic/381576/1 "2025-09-03T18:22:29Z")

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Hello,

I was wondering if this possible already in Kibana? Being able to add buildings into Maps feature in Kibana?  
I see this [Maps | Elastic Docs](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/visualize/maps#_embed_your_map_in_dashboards) about embbedding your own map?

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**Author:** ![Rios](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rios/32/95745_2.png) [@Rios](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rios)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 6:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-building-maps-to-elastic/381576/2 "2025-09-04T06:00:09Z")

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As 3D shape not sure since Kibana maps are based on OpenStreetMap. You can use GEO points with data or icons as well as geo shape/polygons. Check the [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugvvAy-QNqI) and [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw5Hyzk0J1g) and [this](https://medium.com/tech-learnings/unlocking-the-power-of-geo-shapes-in-elasticsearch-a-guide-to-advanced-geospatial-queries-0b317ef721b2) and [this](https://hamidmosalla.com/2021/12/31/how-to-use-elastic-search-geo-shape-query/).

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**Author:** ![jsanz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsanz/32/53734_2.png) [@jsanz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsanz)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 12:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/adding-building-maps-to-elastic/381576/3 "2025-09-04T12:39:43Z")

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Hi @erikg , can you provide more details on your use case? You can import buildings data into Elasticsearch or use external data sources just for visualization purpose.

An example on how to leverage building data in Elasticsearch can be found on this Elastic Advent calendar post I wrote back in 2021.

> [@Dec 23rd, 2021: \[en\] Enriching documents with the geo\_match policy](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dec-23rd-2021-en-enriching-documents-with-the-geo-match-policy/289302):
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> speaking_head This article is also available in [Spanish](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dec-23rd-2021-es-aumentando-documentos-con-la-politica-geo-match/292462) As you may know, on September 19th of 2021, the [Cumbre Vieja volcano eruption](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Cumbre_Vieja_volcanic_eruption) started in La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. The island's government almost immediately began to publish drone surveys of the lava flow footprints in an Open Data Portal ([example](https://www.opendatalapalma.es/datasets/perimetro-dron-211124/explore)). I decided to upload them to the Elastic Stack to visualize and understand the evolution of the flows. Apart from the footprints, there is also a dataset in the Open Data portal wit…