# Map geoip.location to geo\_point by default
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/map-geoip-location-to-geo-point-by-default/35055
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [November 19, 2015, 1:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/map-geoip-location-to-geo-point-by-default/35055 "2015-11-19T13:19:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@jonblack](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jonblack)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2015, 1:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/map-geoip-location-to-geo-point-by-default/35055/1 "2015-11-19T13:19:34Z")
I'm trying to visualise geoip location on a tile map in Kibana but am getting the following error:
> No Compatible Fields: The "[logstash-nginx-access-]YYYY.MM.DD" index pattern does not contain any of the following field types: geo\_point
I found [this issue](https://github.com/elastic/logstash/issues/3137) on GitHub that describes the exact problem. It proposes a solution of prefixing the index with `logstash-`, which is what the template matches on; however, my index is already prefixed correctly:
```
output {
if [type] == "nginx_access" {
elasticsearch {
hosts => "localhost:9200"
sniffing => true
manage_template => false
index => "logstash-nginx-access-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
document_type => "%{[@metadata][type]}"
}
}
}
```
Is anything else I need to get logstash to use the default template for elasticsearch or another way to have geoip data correctly mapped?
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2015, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/map-geoip-location-to-geo-point-by-default/35055/2 "2015-11-19T13:46:48Z")
Have you reloaded the fields in Kibana? Have you checked how location.geoip actually is mapped for the index in question (use the get mapping API)?
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### Author:  [@jonblack](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jonblack)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2015, 1:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/map-geoip-location-to-geo-point-by-default/35055/3 "2015-11-19T13:51:32Z")
Yes, I've tried reloading the index in Kibana. I've also removed the setting and re-added it, but in both cases the geoip fields weren't mapped to `geo_point`.
Running `curl 'localhost:9200/logstash-nginx-access-2015.11.19/_mapping?pretty=true` outputs the following. You can see that the `geoip.location` field is given a `double` type, as in the GitHub issue.
```
{
"logstash-nginx-access-2015.11.19" : {
"mappings" : {
"nginx_access" : {
"properties" : {
"@timestamp" : {
"type" : "date",
"format" : "strict_date_optional_time||epoch_millis"
},
"@version" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"agent" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"auth" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"bytes" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"clientip" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"count" : {
"type" : "long"
},
"fileinfo" : {
"type" : "object"
},
"geoip" : {
"properties" : {
"area_code" : {
"type" : "long"
},
"city_name" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"continent_code" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"country_code2" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"country_code3" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"country_name" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"dma_code" : {
"type" : "long"
},
"ip" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"latitude" : {
"type" : "double"
},
"location" : {
"type" : "double"
},
"longitude" : {
"type" : "double"
},
"real_region_name" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"region_name" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"timezone" : {
"type" : "string"
}
}
},
"httpversion" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"ident" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"input_type" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"line" : {
"type" : "long"
},
"message" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"offset" : {
"type" : "long"
},
"referrer" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"request" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"response" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"shipper" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"source" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"tags" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"timestamp" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"type" : {
"type" : "string"
},
"verb" : {
"type" : "string"
}
}
}
}
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2015, 3:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/map-geoip-location-to-geo-point-by-default/35055/4 "2015-11-19T15:01:43Z")
You've set `manage_template` to false, so are you in fact managing the templates yourself? Is there a template in ES that will be applied to logstash-nginx-access-2015.11.19? Check with the index template APIs. If things look okay there, what happens if you create, say, logstash-nginx-access-2015.12.01? Will its mappings look alright?
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### Author:  [@jonblack](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jonblack)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/map-geoip-location-to-geo-point-by-default/35055/5 "2015-11-19T15:50:46Z")
`manage_template` was the problem, thanks. It's not clear at first glance who is managing the template when that's set to `true`. I assumed setting it to `true` meant that I was managing it, which I didn't want. Thanks.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 5:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/map-geoip-location-to-geo-point-by-default/35055/6 "2017-07-06T05:22:10Z")