# Convert a string field to geopoint **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [November 12, 2016, 7:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/convert-a-string-field-to-geopoint/65864 "2016-11-12T07:43:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mtarimo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mtarimo/32/12282_2.png) [@mtarimo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mtarimo)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 7:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/convert-a-string-field-to-geopoint/65864/1 "2016-11-12T07:43:55Z")
Hi there, We made a mistake when we were indexing our data. We have about 7.1m documents (8GB of data). Our location information has been stored as string. We want to convert this data to geopoint for visualization. This is how the data is stored; t locationLatLon -9.9994516,39.6986348 The field name is "locationLatLon" The value is "-9.9994516,39.6986348" We have changed the type to geopoint, but it is still indexing as string. We think it is because the data was already indexed as string. However, for new deployments, the same definition gets the data stored as geopoint. Is there a simple way to convert the string field to geopoint. Thanks, Michael Tarimo ---
**Author:** ![henrikno](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/henrikno/32/6948_2.png) [@henrikno](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/henrikno)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 8:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/convert-a-string-field-to-geopoint/65864/2 "2016-11-14T08:47:39Z")
Moved to Elasticsearch category. ---
**Author:** ![henrikno](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/henrikno/32/6948_2.png) [@henrikno](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/henrikno)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 4:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/convert-a-string-field-to-geopoint/65864/3 "2016-12-05T04:47:56Z")
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