# Mapping and geo-filter
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-and-geo-filter/5043
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 3, 2011, 12:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-and-geo-filter/5043 "2011-08-03T12:10:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Andrej](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrej)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2011, 12:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-and-geo-filter/5043/1 "2011-08-03T12:10:08Z")
Hi,
I am having a problem with a mapping defining a geo\_point, but no
ideas anymore where the problem is. Maybe someone can give me a hint.
I am creating a mapping for an index where I want to set a field
"location" as a geo\_point
```
public static XContentBuilder createGeoMapping (IndexType index)
```
throws IOException {
return JsonXContent.contentBuilder()
.startObject()
.startObject(ElasticSearchIndex.getType(index))
.startObject("properties")
.startObject("location")
.field("type", "geo\_point")
.endObject()
.endObject()
.endObject()
.endObject();
}
After applying this mapping to the desired index I insert document
with a field like "location" : "40.060008,23.461561".
Searching on this index works fine, as soon as I want to add e.g.
geo\_bbox filter to this query I am getting an exception like
"org.elasticsearch.action.search.SearchPhaseExecutionException: Failed
to execute phase [query], total failure; shardFailures
{[KDmzsTNZSLO35OKUl7vc6A][picture][11]: SearchParseException[[picture]
[11]: query[+PLACE:greece],from[-1],size[100000]: Parse Failure
[Failed to parse source [_na_]]]; nested:
QueryParsingException[[picture] failed to find geo\_point field
[GeoBoundingBoxFilter]]; }"
Can anyone give me a hint on this?
Thanks in advance!
Andrej
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### Author:  [@Andrej](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrej)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2011, 2:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-and-geo-filter/5043/2 "2011-08-04T14:24:44Z")
Ok, I spent some more time on this, obviously the problem is not the
mapping, but the added filter. I have a mapping on the index, I can do
filtered search queries using curl. I tried the following to rebuild
this using the Java API
1. get a Filter
public FilterBuilder getGeoBoundingBoxFilter (double bottomRightLon,
double bottomRightLat, double topLeftLon, double topLeftLat) {
GeoBoundingBoxFilterBuilder geoBox = new
GeoBoundingBoxFilterBuilder("GeoBoundingBoxFilter");
geoBox.bottomRight( bottomRightLat, bottomRightLon);
geoBox.topLeft(topLeftLat, topLeftLon);
return geoBox;
}
2. create a working search request
SearchRequestBuilder request = ... (runs, delivering wanted
results)
3. add the filter to the request
request.setFilter(filter); (Filter is returned from step 1)
4. execute this request
SearchResponse response = request.execute().actionGet();
The exception is the same as above, stating that no geo\_point can be
found. Can anyone give me a hint what I am doing wrong or why I can do
this filtered request with curl but not with the Java API?
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### Author:  [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-and-geo-filter/5043/3 "2011-08-04T19:49:51Z")
The parameter the GeoBoundingBoxFilterBuilder accepts is the field name, so
you should pass there "location". A note on using the builder APIs, use
QueryBuiders/FilterBuilders for static construction method for
queries/filters. And, you can chain the methods. This should make things
more readable and people will be less appalled by "that Java code" 🙂
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Andrej Rosenheinrich \<
[andrej.rosenheinrich@unister.de](mailto:andrej.rosenheinrich@unister.de)\> wrote:
> Ok, I spent some more time on this, obviously the problem is not the
> mapping, but the added filter. I have a mapping on the index, I can do
> filtered search queries using curl. I tried the following to rebuild
> this using the Java API
>
> 1. get a Filter
> public FilterBuilder getGeoBoundingBoxFilter (double bottomRightLon,
> double bottomRightLat, double topLeftLon, double topLeftLat) {
> GeoBoundingBoxFilterBuilder geoBox = new
> GeoBoundingBoxFilterBuilder("GeoBoundingBoxFilter");
> geoBox.bottomRight( bottomRightLat, bottomRightLon);
> geoBox.topLeft(topLeftLat, topLeftLon);
> return geoBox;
> }
>
> 2. create a working search request
> SearchRequestBuilder request = ... (runs, delivering wanted
> results)
>
> 3. add the filter to the request
> request.setFilter(filter); (Filter is returned from step 1)
>
> 4. execute this request
> SearchResponse response = request.execute().actionGet();
>
> The exception is the same as above, stating that no geo\_point can be
> found. Can anyone give me a hint what I am doing wrong or why I can do
> this filtered request with curl but not with the Java API?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-and-geo-filter/5043/4 "2017-07-06T03:58:14Z")