# Geo point as string **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 22, 2016, 3:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geo-point-as-string/50637 "2016-05-22T03:20:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Suran\_Kularatna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Suran\_Kularatna](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Suran_Kularatna)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 3:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geo-point-as-string/50637/1 "2016-05-22T03:20:32Z")
I have created a python tweepy script and it's all working fine loading data into elastic search. I recentyl added functionality to get coordinates from tweets and am having a struggle trying to add it to my map here's what i have : mapping={ "twitter-map": { "properties": { "author":{"type": "string"}, "date":{"type": "date","format": "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss Z yyyy"}, "message":{"type": "string", "index": "not\_analyzed"}, "urls":{"type": "string", "index": "not\_analyzed"}, "hashtags":{"type": "string", "index": "not\_analyzed"}, "url\_keywords":{"type": "string", "index": "not\_analyzed"}, "title":{"type": "string", "index": "not\_analyzed"}, "summary":{"type": "string", "index": "not\_analyzed"}, "location":{"type": "geo\_point"}, ``` } } } es.indices.put_mapping(index="fin-tech",doc_type="twitter-map",body=mapping) content={"author":dict_data["user"]["screen_name"], "date":dict_data["created_at"], "message": dict_data["text"], "urls":[url["expanded_url"]for url in dict_data["entities"]["urls"]], "hashtags":[hashtag['text']for hashtag in dict_data["entities"]["hashtags"]], "location":dict_data["user"]["location"], "url_keywords":keywords, "title":title, "summary":summary, "location":coord} ``` when executing the python script i get : lasticsearch.exceptions.RequestError: TransportError(400, 'illegal\_argument\_exception', 'mapper [location] of different type, current\_type [string], merged\_type [geo\_point]') Surans-Mac-Pro:twitter surankularatna$ vi stream\_data\_fintech.py any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 7:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geo-point-as-string/50637/2 "2016-05-22T07:47:59Z")
What does your data look like? Which version of Elasticsearch are you using? ---
**Author:** ![xdzhou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@xdzhou](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xdzhou)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 7:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geo-point-as-string/50637/3 "2016-05-23T07:39:58Z")
two "location" fields in the content? ---
**Author:** ![Suran\_Kularatna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Suran\_Kularatna](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Suran_Kularatna)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geo-point-as-string/50637/4 "2016-05-23T15:58:18Z")
this is the output from pytohn code for coordinates [-71.7536, 42.5265] I believe I am using version 2.3.2 Lucene 5.5.0 here's my map mapping={ "twitter-map": { "properties": { "author":{"type": "string"}, "date":{"type": "date","format": "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss Z yyyy"}, "message":{"type": "string", "index": "not\_analyzed"}, "urls":{"type": "string", "index": "not\_analyzed"}, "hashtags":{"type": "string", "index": "not\_analyzed"}, "url\_keywords":{"type": "string", "index": "not\_analyzed"}, "title":{"type": "string", "index": "not\_analyzed"}, "summary":{"type": "string", "index": "not\_analyzed"}, "location":{"type": "geo\_point"}, ``` } } } es.indices.put_mapping(index="fin-tech",doc_type="twitter-map",body=mapping) content={"author":dict_data["user"]["screen_name"], "date":dict_data["created_at"], "message": dict_data["text"], "urls":[url["expanded_url"]for url in dict_data["entities"]["urls"]], "hashtags":[hashtag['text']for hashtag in dict_data["entities"]["hashtags"]], "location":dict_data["user"]["location"], "url_keywords":keywords, "title":title, "summary":summary, "location":location} ``` ---
**Author:** ![Suran\_Kularatna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Suran\_Kularatna](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Suran_Kularatna)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 3:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geo-point-as-string/50637/5 "2016-05-24T03:04:09Z")
i am trying this mapping: "geolocation": { "type":'geo\_point', "properties": { "location":{"type": "string"} but i get error elasticsearch.exceptions.RequestError: TransportError(400, 'mapper\_parsing\_exception', 'Mapping definition for [geolocation] has unsupported parameters: [properties : {location={type=string}}]') ---
**Author:** ![Suran\_Kularatna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Suran\_Kularatna](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Suran_Kularatna)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 12:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geo-point-as-string/50637/6 "2016-05-24T12:22:20Z")
ive deleted.. ---
**Author:** ![xdzhou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@xdzhou](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xdzhou)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 4:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geo-point-as-string/50637/7 "2016-05-24T16:10:41Z")
this is not how you write mappings. you can refer to default logstash mapping and see how geoip.location is defined. Basically, geoip is a json object, the type is "object", the location is a child of geoip, its type is geo\_point. geoip: { dynamic: true, type: "object", properties: { ip: { type: "ip", doc\_values: true }, latitude: { type: "float", doc\_values: true }, location: { type: "geo\_point", doc\_values: true }, longitude: { type: "float", doc\_values: true } } }, ---
**Author:** ![Suran\_Kularatna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Suran\_Kularatna](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Suran_Kularatna)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 2:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geo-point-as-string/50637/8 "2016-05-27T02:05:47Z")
thanks I will try this. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geo-point-as-string/50637/9 "2017-07-05T22:48:42Z")