# FeatureCollection to geo\_shape
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/featurecollection-to-geo-shape/143334
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 7, 2018, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/featurecollection-to-geo-shape/143334 "2018-08-07T13:16:11Z")
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### Author:  [@yannick-cw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yannick-cw)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2018, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/featurecollection-to-geo-shape/143334/1 "2018-08-07T13:16:11Z")
#### Whats the right way to translate a geojson FeatureCollection to a es geo\_shape?
I have a FeatureCollection looking like this:
```auto
{
"type": "FeatureCollection",
"features": [
{
"type": "Feature",
"geometry": {
"type": "Polygon",
"coordinates": [[[1.96, 42.455],[1.985,42.445]]]
}
},
{
"type": "Feature",
"geometry": {
"type": "Polygon",
"coordinates": [...]
}
}
]
}
```
How can I translate this into the es `geo_shape`.
Currently I just index it like that (dropping `type: Feature` and `type: FeatureCollection` fields) and add a mapping saying:
```auto
"features": {
"geometry": {
"type": "geo_shape"
}
}
```
This seems to work fine, but feels wrong, as I give an array of `geometry`s.
Is this okay or would the right way be to translate the `FeatureCollection` to type `geometrycollection`? Which clearly wants multiple `geometry` elements.
One Followup question, can I do a query a la: `Give me all elements geometrically inside Element X` in one query, without fetching X and than doing multiple follow up queries for each polygon?
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### Author:  [@yannick-cw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yannick-cw)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2018, 9:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/featurecollection-to-geo-shape/143334/2 "2018-08-10T09:17:51Z")
So I just tried indexing once as `geometrycollection` and once as list of polygons as the example above. Both produce same search results for different queries, so is that just equivalent or can I produce different behavior somehow?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2018, 9:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/featurecollection-to-geo-shape/143334/3 "2018-09-07T09:22:44Z")
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