# Geospatial proximity search within a certain radius sorted by distance

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geospatial-proximity-search-within-a-certain-radius-sorted-by-distance/8393>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 12, 2012, 2:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geospatial-proximity-search-within-a-certain-radius-sorted-by-distance/8393 "2012-07-12T02:09:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Patrick\_Paul\_Hus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/patrick_paul_hus/32/2816_2.png) [@Patrick\_Paul\_Hus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Patrick_Paul_Hus)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 2:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geospatial-proximity-search-within-a-certain-radius-sorted-by-distance/8393/1 "2012-07-12T02:09:33Z")

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Hi,

I started playing around today with Elasticsearch. I indexed a couple of  
documents that look like this :

{  
"location": {  
"name": "Montreal",  
"location": {"lat": 45.50884, "lon": -73.58781}  
}  
}

and then I know that I can do something like this to get the locations that  
are nearest first

{  
"query" : {  
"match\_all" : {}  
},  
"sort" : [{  
"\_geo\_distance": {  
"location": {  
"lat": 45.5247,  
"lon": -73.5894  
},  
"order": "asc",  
"unit": "km"  
}  
}]  
}'

but how can I also specify that I also only want the locations that are  
within a given distance/radius?

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**Author:** ![Mario\_Menezes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mario_menezes/32/2812_2.png) [@Mario\_Menezes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mario_Menezes)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geospatial-proximity-search-within-a-certain-radius-sorted-by-distance/8393/2 "2012-07-12T14:00:37Z")

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Hi,

I'm not an expert - far from this. But I found this on the docs. Maybe  
it's what you want, isn't it?

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Regards,

Em quarta-feira, 11 de julho de 2012 23h09min33s UTC-3, Patrick Paul-Hus  
escreveu:

> Hi,
> 
> I started playing around today with Elasticsearch. I indexed a couple of  
> documents that look like this :
> 
> {  
> "location": {  
> "name": "Montreal",  
> "location": {"lat": 45.50884, "lon": -73.58781}  
> }  
> }
> 
> and then I know that I can do something like this to get the locations  
> that are nearest first
> 
> {  
> "query" : {  
> "match\_all" : {}  
> },  
> "sort" : [{  
> "\_geo\_distance": {  
> "location": {  
> "lat": 45.5247,  
> "lon": -73.5894  
> },  
> "order": "asc",  
> "unit": "km"  
> }  
> }]  
> }'
> 
> but how can I also specify that I also only want the locations that are  
> within a given distance/radius?

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 3:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/geospatial-proximity-search-within-a-certain-radius-sorted-by-distance/8393/3 "2017-07-06T03:20:30Z")

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