# Geo Location based on User Text File Location

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geo-location-based-on-user-text-file-location/151849>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 10, 2018, 12:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geo-location-based-on-user-text-file-location/151849 "2018-10-10T12:48:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![cormac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@cormac](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cormac)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2018, 12:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geo-location-based-on-user-text-file-location/151849/1 "2018-10-10T12:48:11Z")

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Is it possible to create a visual or dashboard based on a Location text field but translate this to a Geo location.

User Location : California

Using the Geohash aggregation

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**Author:** ![jen-huang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jen-huang/32/74327_2.png) [@jen-huang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jen-huang)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2018, 10:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geo-location-based-on-user-text-file-location/151849/2 "2018-10-11T10:06:57Z")

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You can create Region Map visualizations based on a text field. In this example my field is abbreviations of countries (US, CN, etc):

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/3/2/32ba631d2b830080eab9fbd6298111bca854a735.jpeg)

But, there are other maps and formats available, for example USA states which understands full state names:

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/c/2ca0a3034e95eeb1fb1d059a13d52abaa357b929.png)

This information is provided by [Elastic Maps Service](https://www.elastic.co/elastic-maps-service). See all the different possible maps and data here: [https://maps.elastic.co/#file/USA%20States](https://maps.elastic.co/#file/USA%20States)

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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:** [November 8, 2018, 10:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geo-location-based-on-user-text-file-location/151849/3 "2018-11-08T10:06:59Z")

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