Question about geopoint

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Hi everyone ,

I have a question about geopoint fields.
In the Elasticsearch definitive guide we can read :
A geo-point is a single latitude/longitude point on the Earth’s surface. So it is quite clear :smile:
But in the default template used by logstash we can read :
"geoip" : { "dynamic": true, "properties" : { "ip": { "type": "ip" }, "location" : { "type" : "geo_point" }, "latitude" : { "type" : "float" }, "longitude" : { "type" : "float" } }

My question is : Why are there the latitude and longitude fields while they already exist in the geopoint field ?

Thank in advance ! :+1: