# Geo\_distance sort shapes
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geo-distance-sort-shapes/74112
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 6, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geo-distance-sort-shapes/74112 "2017-02-06T19:17:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@juanpujol](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/juanpujol)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geo-distance-sort-shapes/74112/1 "2017-02-06T19:17:09Z")
What's the best way to sort by distance documents found by the geo\_shape query?
Example, I'm running this query and I'll like to sort the documents found by the distance to the nearest point of a shape.
```
GET /gsp/_search
{
"query": {
"geo_shape": {
"geometry": {
"shape": {
"type": "circle",
"radius": "100km",
"coordinates": [-73.995175, 40.724822]
}
}
}
}
}
```
Thank you
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2017, 8:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geo-distance-sort-shapes/74112/2 "2017-02-07T08:29:44Z")
Hey,
sorting on shapes is currently not possible, see [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.2/geo-shape.html#_sorting_and_retrieving_index_shapes)
If you have shapes where can define a central point, you could use geo points, but that of course is just an approximation that is wildly wrong.
--Alex
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### Author:  [@juanpujol](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/juanpujol)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2017, 3:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geo-distance-sort-shapes/74112/3 "2017-02-07T15:45:35Z")
Thank you @spinscale this is a great help.
I'm going to stick to Mongo to do this for now.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2017, 3:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geo-distance-sort-shapes/74112/4 "2017-03-07T15:45:43Z")
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