# Converting Location field into lat and long

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/converting-location-field-into-lat-and-long/152776>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 17, 2018, 8:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/converting-location-field-into-lat-and-long/152776 "2018-10-17T08:18:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![fkelbert](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/fkelbert/32/35762_2.png) [@fkelbert](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fkelbert)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2018, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/converting-location-field-into-lat-and-long/152776/6 "2018-10-22T10:11:00Z")

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You need some way to convert this information into lat,lon.

[This thread](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-find-latitude-and-longitude-from-city-name/52644) discusses the very same topic. I'm afraid you won't be pleased by the answers -- the functionality you are looking for is not available out of the box.

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