# Mapping longitude and latitude in kibana 4

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-longitude-and-latitude-in-kibana-4/443>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 10, 2015, 5:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-longitude-and-latitude-in-kibana-4/443 "2015-05-10T05:28:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![kitex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@kitex](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kitex)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 5:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-longitude-and-latitude-in-kibana-4/443/1 "2015-05-10T05:28:42Z")

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I have longitude and latitude field from postgres into elasticsearch using jdbc-river. Is there any way to plot longitude and latitude in kibana? I tried to convert to geo\_point but I see that it only takes geo\_hash.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 5:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-longitude-and-latitude-in-kibana-4/443/2 "2015-05-10T05:52:55Z")

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It uses a geohash aggregation on geo\_point.  
So if your mapping is correct, it should work

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**Author:** ![kitex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@kitex](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kitex)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 6:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-longitude-and-latitude-in-kibana-4/443/3 "2015-05-10T06:19:02Z")

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Here is my mapping:

```
PUT /_river/fault/_meta
{
    "type" : "jdbc",
    "jdbc" : {
        "url" : "jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/gis",
        "user" : "test",
        "password" : "test",
        "sql" : [
             {
                "statement" : "select latitude as \"location.lat\",longitude \"location.lon\",zone from alarms"
            }
        ],   
        "index" : "fault",
        "type" : "alert_status",
        "schedule": "0 0/1 * * * ?"
    },
    "type_mapping" : {
              "alert_status" : {
                  "properties" : {
                        "location" : { 
                            "type" : "geo_point",
                            "lat_lon" : true
                       }
                  }
              }
        }
}

```

I had posted issue about creating geo\_point [here](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/jdbc-river-and-geo-point-from-longitude-and-latitude/442).

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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, 12:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mapping-longitude-and-latitude-in-kibana-4/443/4 "2017-07-06T00:14:48Z")

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