# Don't know how to make elasticsearch recognise the location coordenates properly for Map "visualitzation" on Kibana

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dont-know-how-to-make-elasticsearch-recognise-the-location-coordenates-properly-for-map-visualitzation-on-kibana/207113
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [November 8, 2019, 12:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dont-know-how-to-make-elasticsearch-recognise-the-location-coordenates-properly-for-map-visualitzation-on-kibana/207113 "2019-11-08T12:33:24Z")
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### Author: ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2019, 1:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dont-know-how-to-make-elasticsearch-recognise-the-location-coordenates-properly-for-map-visualitzation-on-kibana/207113/2 "2019-11-08T13:04:12Z")

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Hi @HikariNTB

You need to create a mapping with geo\_point data type first before you index the data.

See an explanation [here](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/convert-lat-and-long-to-geohash/197631/4)

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