# Geoquery Against Pre-Indexed Shape is Failing
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geoquery-against-pre-indexed-shape-is-failing/21130
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 8, 2014, 3:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geoquery-against-pre-indexed-shape-is-failing/21130 "2014-12-08T03:56:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Waldo\_Jaquith](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Waldo_Jaquith)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2014, 3:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geoquery-against-pre-indexed-shape-is-failing/21130/1 "2014-12-08T03:56:42Z")
Folks,
I’m trying to run a geo\_shape filter query using a pre-indexed shape, and it’s failing for reasons that I cannot identify. This is with Elasticsearch v1.4.1-1. I’ve documented how to reproduce the problem at [https://gist.github.com/waldoj/004f77755179d862fe3a](https://gist.github.com/waldoj/004f77755179d862fe3a).
The pre-indexed shapes are GeoJSON converted from Census Bureau municipal geodata. The indexed documents are state corporate registration records, each of which have an address that I’ve geocoded into a latitude and longitude (a field named “location”). The indexed shapes are in a "geometry”:{ “coordinates": { [1, 2] [3, 5] } } format. In the query I specify "path": “geometry”, which generates this error:
"Failed to find geo\_shape field [location]].”
Based on the error, it looks like Elasticsearch is looking for _shapes_ that fall within the pre-indexed shape, rather than _points_, and so while the indexed documents have a geo\_point field named “location,” there’s no geo\_shape field of that name. FWIW, I’m following the instructions in the manual at [http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-geo-shape-filter.html#\_pre\_indexed\_shape](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-geo-shape-filter.html#_pre_indexed_shape).
I’d be grateful to anybody who could offer some guidance. Thank you.
Best,
Waldo
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Waldo Jaquith
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geoquery-against-pre-indexed-shape-is-failing/21130/2 "2017-07-06T00:45:08Z")