# Kibana geopoint is not working **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [December 4, 2015, 3:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-geopoint-is-not-working/36343 "2015-12-04T03:33:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zozo6015](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zozo6015/32/12117_2.png) [@zozo6015](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zozo6015)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 3:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-geopoint-is-not-working/36343/1 "2015-12-04T03:33:36Z")
Hello, I am loading the information from my webserver to elasticsearch using packetbeats and when I am trying your dashboards on the geopoint visualization I am getting an error saying the following: Visualize: Expected geo\_point type on field [client\_location], but got [string] When I am going to the settings to change the format of the client\_location I have only two options to string, or default which is string. Is there any way to disable the string into false? ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/monica/32/3696_2.png) [@monica](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2015, 9:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-geopoint-is-not-working/36343/2 "2015-12-08T09:46:44Z")
The "client\_location" field should be of type [geo\_point](https://github.com/elastic/beats/blob/master/packetbeat/etc/packetbeat.template.json#L27). Please make sure you have the packetbeat template loaded by following the steps: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/packetbeat/current/packetbeat-getting-started.html#packetbeat-template](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/packetbeat/current/packetbeat-getting-started.html#packetbeat-template) It might be that geo location doesn't work from some reasons and the client\_location is not set, having the value "". Can you please have a look and tell me what are the values of the "client\_location" field? Thanks! ---
**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, 2:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-geopoint-is-not-working/36343/3 "2017-07-06T14:07:12Z")