# "Faild to find geo\_point field" (mapping looks ok)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/faild-to-find-geo-point-field-mapping-looks-ok/80298>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 28, 2017, 12:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/faild-to-find-geo-point-field-mapping-looks-ok/80298 "2017-03-28T12:53:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![dejemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@dejemoc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dejemoc)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 12:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/faild-to-find-geo-point-field-mapping-looks-ok/80298/1 "2017-03-28T12:53:52Z")

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I'm now in elasticsearch and it's possible I do something wrong, but I have problem I can't figure out.

This is how my data look like:  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/b/1b4a1a68ec751961f4e175eb79fc0b55438cd4e0.png)

And this is its mapping where we can see coordinates field's type is "geo\_point":  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/2/12f09e0692e3b6229c4f4fdddbe573d4d9b858ce.png)

But for this query:  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/1/11bdf6ca171456e557f367da61ae6beb3d682c2c.png)

I get this error:

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/c/8c199600c8511dcc1d1fd43e85954a2eccc4cecd.png)

What should I do?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/faild-to-find-geo-point-field-mapping-looks-ok/80298/2 "2017-03-28T13:16:35Z")

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Don't paste images please but code.

You need to call the right field name: geometry.coordinates

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**Author:** ![dejemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@dejemoc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dejemoc)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/faild-to-find-geo-point-field-mapping-looks-ok/80298/3 "2017-03-28T13:32:21Z")

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So simple 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/faild-to-find-geo-point-field-mapping-looks-ok/80298/4 "2017-04-25T13:32:27Z")

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