# Need help with geo\_point index mappings
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-with-geo-point-index-mappings/79141
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 18, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-with-geo-point-index-mappings/79141 "2017-03-18T14:41:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@cptnclvn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cptnclvn)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-with-geo-point-index-mappings/79141/1 "2017-03-18T14:41:47Z")
I am pulling in my firewall logs into ELK and i am trying to use the tile map to map out entries. Logstash parses all the information correctly but when i go to use the tile map it says that i don't have any field types with "geo\_point". I checked my mappings and geoip.location was set to type float. I went ahead and added an index mapping so that when it came in it would be set to geo\_point but Kibana still doesn't recognize it. I deleted the index and let it re-create and it still doesn't recognize. Am i missing something simple. I have attached some screen shots of the data. I am running 5.2.1 on all ELK components.
[Link to photos](http://imgur.com/a/llS6G)
---
### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2017, 3:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-with-geo-point-index-mappings/79141/2 "2017-03-18T15:42:03Z")
You need to create the right mapping before indexing.
Please don't post pictures.
---
### Author:  [@cptnclvn](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cptnclvn)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2017, 4:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-with-geo-point-index-mappings/79141/3 "2017-03-18T16:34:32Z")
Sorry for the pictures, i thought they might be helpful. I tried putting a mutate clause in my logstash config but it doesn't seem to like that. Any suggestions on this?
\> mutate { convert =\> { "[geoip] [location]" =\> "geo\_point" } }
---
### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2017, 5:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-with-geo-point-index-mappings/79141/4 "2017-03-18T17:17:45Z")
I'm not sure it's related to logstash here.
What does a document is looking like?
What is your mapping looking like?
You can use markdown style like to format your code:
````
```
CODE
```
````
---
### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2017, 5:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-with-geo-point-index-mappings/79141/5 "2017-04-15T17:18:03Z")
This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.