# Problems with geo\_shape support
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-with-geo-shape-support/10207
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 31, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-with-geo-shape-support/10207 "2012-12-31T16:05:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Jilles\_van\_Gurp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jilles_van_Gurp)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-with-geo-shape-support/10207/1 "2012-12-31T16:05:56Z")
> I've been trying to get geo spatial search to work with Elasticsearch.
> The geo\_shape variety seems to do what I want and I'm interested in
> indexing and retrieving points inside polygons. Simple radius search or
> bounding box search is not good enough.
So, I indexed about 10 points in a simple test index and then ran the
following query. Each point has a location field with type geo\_shape and a
location field:
{"id":"id0.1","type":"poi","name":{"en":["0.1"]},"location":{"type":"point",
"coordinates":[52.1,13.1]}}
{"id":"id0.2","type":"poi","name":{"en":["0.2"]},"location":{"type":"point",
"coordinates":[52.2,13.2]}}
{"id":"id0.3","type":"poi","name":{"en":["0.3"]},"location":{"type":"point",
"coordinates":[52.3,13.3]}}
{"id":"id0.4","type":"poi","name":{"en":["0.4"]},"location":{"type":"point",
"coordinates":[52.4,13.4]}}
{"id":"id0.5","type":"poi","name":{"en":["0.5"]},"location":{"type":"point",
"coordinates":[52.5,13.5]}}
{"id":"id0.6","type":"poi","name":{"en":["0.6"]},"location":{"type":"point",
"coordinates":[52.6,13.6]}}
{"id":"id0.7","type":"poi","name":{"en":["0.7"]},"location":{"type":"point",
"coordinates":[52.7,13.7]}}
{"id":"id0.8","type":"poi","name":{"en":["0.8"]},"location":{"type":"point",
"coordinates":[52.8,13.8]}}
{"id":"id0.9","type":"poi","name":{"en":["0.9"]},"location":{"type":"point",
"coordinates":[52.9,13.9]}}
{"id":"id1.0","type":"poi","name":{"en":["1.0"]},"location":{"type":"point",
"coordinates":[53.0,14.0]}}
I'm trying to run the following query:
{
> ```
> "query" : {
> "geo_shape" : {
> "location" : {
> "shape" : {
> "type" : "envelope",
> "coordinates" : [[52.0, 53.0],[13.0, 14.0]]
> },
> "relation" : "intersects"
> }
> }
> }
>
> ```
>
> }
I have several issues with this query and variants of it:
- what I really wanted is polygonal search, not an envelope search. Thius
doesn't work at all. I get an npe if I use a polygon. For reference, here's
the polygon I've been testing with, roughly corresponding to a circular
area around Berlin
> [
>
> [
>
> 52.51795646971664,
>
> 13.7939833902653
>
> ],
>
> [
>
> 52.61972051694795,
>
> 13.720499817631334
>
> ],
>
> [
>
> 52.67575539585586,
>
> 13.56279280917535
>
> ],
>
> [
>
> 52.66465768725302,
>
> 13.38110108186347
>
> ],
>
> [
>
> 52.59066633862847,
>
> 13.244824700054153
>
> ],
>
> [
>
> 52.48204353028336,
>
> 13.2060166097347
>
> ],
>
> [
>
> 52.38027948305205,
>
> 13.279500182368666
>
> ],
>
> [
>
> 52.32424460414414,
>
> 13.43720719082465
>
> ],
>
> [
>
> 52.33534231274698,
>
> 13.61889891813653
>
> ],
>
> [
>
> 52.40933366137153,
>
> 13.755175299945847
>
> ]
>
> ]
>
> - what I really wanted is relation: contains. This doesn't work either. I
> get a QueryParsingException[[myindex] Unknown shape operation [contains]]
> if I try that
- if I run the above query, it fails with a TooManyClauses[maxClauseCount
is set to 1024]
Obviously, I'm doing something very wrong. But what?
I.e. how do I actually search for points contained in a polygon of
arbitrary size?
BTW. using Elasticsearch 0.20.2
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### Author:  [@Jilles\_van\_Gurp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jilles_van_Gurp)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2012, 4:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-with-geo-shape-support/10207/2 "2012-12-31T16:13:19Z")
It seems google groups messed up the formatting big time. Apologies. Here's
the plain text version:
I've been trying to get geo spatial search to work with elastic search.
The geo\_shape variety seems to do what I want and I'm interested in
indexing and retrieving points inside polygons. Simple radius search or
bounding box search is not good enough.
So, I indexed about a few points in a simple test index and then ran the
following query. Each point has a location field with type geo\_shape and a
location field:
{"id":"id0.1","type":"poi","name":{"en":["0.1"]},"location":{"type":"point",
"coordinates":[52.1,13.1]}}
{"id":"id0.2","type":"poi","name":{"en":["0.2"]},"location":{"type":"point",
"coordinates":[52.2,13.2]}}
{"id":"id0.3","type":"poi","name":{"en":["0.3"]},"location":{"type":"point",
"coordinates":[52.3,13.3]}}
etc.
I'm trying to run the following query:
{
"query" : {
"geo\_shape" : {
"location" : {
"shape" : {
"type" : "envelope",
"coordinates" : [[52.0, 53.0],[13.0, 14.0]]
},
"relation" : "intersects"
}
}
}
}
I have several issues with this query and variants of it:
- what I really wanted is polygonal search, not an envelope search. Thius
doesn't work at all. I get an npe if I use a polygon. For reference, here's
the polygon I've been testing with, roughly corresponding to a circular
area around Berlin
[[ 52.51795646971664, 13.7939833902653], [ 52.61972051694795,
13.720499817631334 ], [52.67575539585586, 13.56279280917535], [
52.66465768725302, 13.38110108186347 ], [ 52.59066633862847,
13.244824700054153 ], [52.48204353028336, 13.2060166097347], [
52.38027948305205, 13.279500182368666 ], [ 52.32424460414414,
13.43720719082465 ], [52.33534231274698, 13.61889891813653], [
52.40933366137153, 13.755175299945847 ] ]
- what I really wanted is relation: contains. This doesn't work either. I
get a QueryParsingException[[myindex] Unknown shape operation [contains]]
if I try that
- if I run the above query, it fails with a TooManyClauses[maxClauseCount
is set to 1024]
Obviously, I'm doing something very wrong. But what?
I.e. how do I actually search for points contained in a polygon of
arbitrary size?
--
---
### Author:  [@Jilles\_van\_Gurp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jilles_van_Gurp)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2013, 2:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-with-geo-shape-support/10207/3 "2013-01-02T14:38:28Z")
I figured it out finally. If anyone else is struggling with this:
1. relation:contains should be relation:within, apparently this changed in
the implementation. I created a pull request for the documentation fix
2. geojson polygons are 3d arrays and not 2d arrays. Passing in a 2d array
causes the parser to throw an npe.
3. the polygon should end with the same coordinate as it begins with
So, this query is correct:
{
```
"query" : {
"filtered" : {
"query" : {
"match_all" : {}
},
"filter" : {
"geo_shape" : {
"location" : {
"shape" : {
"type" : "Polygon",
```
"coordinates" :
[[[52.51795646971664,13.7939833902653],[52.61972051694795,13.720499817631334],[52.67575539585586,13.56279280917535],[52.66465768725302,13.38110108186347],[52.59066633862847,13.244824700054153],[52.48204353028336,13.2060166097347],[52.38027948305205,13.279500182368666],[52.32424460414414,13.43720719082465],[52.33534231274698,13.61889891813653],[52.40933366137153,13.755175299945847],[52.51795646971664,13.7939833902653]]]
},
```
"relation" : "within"
}
}
}
}
}
```
}
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-with-geo-shape-support/10207/4 "2017-07-06T02:58:02Z")