# Parsing lon/lat with logstash **URL:** \ **Category:** Logstash\ **Created:** [December 30, 2017, 4:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-lon-lat-with-logstash/113638 "2017-12-30T16:37:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BR\_GONGALE](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/br_gongale/32/33506_2.png) [@BR\_GONGALE](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BR_GONGALE)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2017, 4:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-lon-lat-with-logstash/113638/1 "2017-12-30T16:37:35Z")
I am facing problem while trying to parse location to 24.7N,118.5W. How can parse it to location without removing the N and W from this format 24.7N,118.5W ---
**Author:** ![BR\_GONGALE](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/br_gongale/32/33506_2.png) [@BR\_GONGALE](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BR_GONGALE)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 6:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-lon-lat-with-logstash/113638/2 "2017-12-31T06:45:09Z")
seems like everybody njoying the holidays 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 10:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-lon-lat-with-logstash/113638/3 "2017-12-31T10:20:45Z")
That is as far as I know not a valid location format, so I suspect you will need to parse the string and store the latitude and longitude as numbers in a separate field, which you the map as a geo\_point. ---
**Author:** ![BR\_GONGALE](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/br_gongale/32/33506_2.png) [@BR\_GONGALE](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BR_GONGALE)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 10:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-lon-lat-with-logstash/113638/4 "2017-12-31T10:38:09Z")
Thanks for the reply Christian , I was thinking the same but was trying to find if there is any alternate solution to it . I am trying to parse data set from NASA fireball events. > Peak Brightness Date/Time (UT),Latitude (deg.),Longitude (deg.),Altitude (km),Velocity (km/s),vx,vy,vz,Total Radiated Energy (J),Calculated Total Impact Energy (kt) > 31-07-2017 22:01,24.7N,118.5W,,,,,,5.80E+10,0.19 > 23-07-2017 6:12,6.6S,69.7W,38,17.2,-0.4,8.7,-14.8,3.50E+10,0.12 ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2018, 2:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-lon-lat-with-logstash/113638/5 "2018-01-01T02:37:13Z")
> [@BR\_GONGALE](#): > > seems like everybody njoying the holidays 😀 If you'd like an SLA on your questions we can provide that. Otherwise, it is the end of the year and many people are on holidays. Please have some patience 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BR\_GONGALE](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/br_gongale/32/33506_2.png) [@BR\_GONGALE](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BR_GONGALE)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2018, 4:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-lon-lat-with-logstash/113638/6 "2018-01-01T04:08:47Z")
I was just kidding don't take it seriously 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 4:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-lon-lat-with-logstash/113638/7 "2018-01-29T04:08:52Z")
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