# Kibana limit for Geojson file upload

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-limit-for-geojson-file-upload/216749>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** maps\
**Created:** [January 28, 2020, 3:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-limit-for-geojson-file-upload/216749 "2020-01-28T03:43:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Prabhakar\_Rajagopal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/prabhakar_rajagopal/32/61511_2.png) [@Prabhakar\_Rajagopal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prabhakar_Rajagopal)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 3:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-limit-for-geojson-file-upload/216749/1 "2020-01-28T03:43:32Z")

</div>

There is a limit of 50MB file size to upload maps in Geojson to ES. This is really small. How do I load larger map datasets into ES?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jsanz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jsanz/32/53734_2.png) [@jsanz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsanz)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 12:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-limit-for-geojson-file-upload/216749/2 "2020-01-28T12:18:48Z")

</div>

hi @Prabhakar_Rajagopal

GeoJSON upload is not meant for very large datasets, but you can leverage the [GDAL library](https://gdal.org/) to perform ETL tasks into Elasticsearch. [This blog post](https://www.elastic.co/blog/how-to-ingest-geospatial-data-into-elasticsearch-with-gdal) explains how it works and the different options you have to upload geospatial data.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Prabhakar\_Rajagopal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/prabhakar_rajagopal/32/61511_2.png) [@Prabhakar\_Rajagopal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prabhakar_Rajagopal)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 9:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-limit-for-geojson-file-upload/216749/3 "2020-01-31T09:20:25Z")

</div>

Thanks for the suggestion, Jorge.  
I will check out using the GDAL library.  
Is using logstash an option as well for geojson?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Nathan\_Reese](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nathan_reese/32/84829_2.png) [@Nathan\_Reese](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nathan_Reese)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-limit-for-geojson-file-upload/216749/4 "2020-01-31T13:32:35Z")

</div>

Documents are inserted into Elastisearch via REST API. You can write a script in your favorite language to pull features from a geojson file and then upload via REST APIs.

For example, this node.js script, [https://github.com/nreese/presentations/blob/master/openDataPhilly/load.js](https://github.com/nreese/presentations/blob/master/openDataPhilly/load.js), uses [oboe](http://oboejs.com/) to stream in a geojson file and bulk upload features to Elasticsearch. You could write something similar.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2020, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-limit-for-geojson-file-upload/216749/5 "2020-02-28T13:32:36Z")

</div>

This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.