# Point in Polygon without CONTAINS spatial relation operator (now DEPRECATED)
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/point-in-polygon-without-contains-spatial-relation-operator-now-deprecated/209379
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 25, 2019, 9:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/point-in-polygon-without-contains-spatial-relation-operator-now-deprecated/209379 "2019-11-25T21:09:09Z")
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### Author:  [@krsarmiento](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/krsarmiento)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2019, 9:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/point-in-polygon-without-contains-spatial-relation-operator-now-deprecated/209379/1 "2019-11-25T21:09:10Z")
**TL;DR** : _ **geo\_shape**** CONTAINS** operation is deprecated and I don't see an equivalent in the docs. I'm trying to find all the polygons that contain a coordinate point._
I worked with Polygon indexation and PIP (Point in Polygon) operations. **To find all polygons that contained a given coordinate (point)** we used this query:
```auto
query["query"]["bool"]["filter"] = {
"geo_shape": {
"location": {
"shape": {
"type": "point",
"coordinates" : [longitude, latitude]
},
"relation": "contains"
}
}
}
```
I'm currently working in a new project that does something similar, so I decided to use the same query but it turns out that this relation has been deprecated. Reading the docs does not help so I decided to do some testing with a small subset of our current data (it's a large dataset) and **intersects** seems to be working well.
```auto
query["query"]["bool"]["filter"] = {
"geo_shape": {
"location": {
"shape": {
"type": "point",
"coordinates" : [longitude, latitude]
},
"relation": "intersects"
}
}
}
```
Now, can **intersects** and **contains** be considered equivalent from a **Point in Polygon** point of view?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2019, 9:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/point-in-polygon-without-contains-spatial-relation-operator-now-deprecated/209379/2 "2019-12-23T21:23:01Z")
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