# Template mapping examples not clear for geoip
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/template-mapping-examples-not-clear-for-geoip/165832
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [January 25, 2019, 11:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/template-mapping-examples-not-clear-for-geoip/165832 "2019-01-25T23:31:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@CharlieBrown](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/CharlieBrown)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2019, 11:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/template-mapping-examples-not-clear-for-geoip/165832/1 "2019-01-25T23:31:44Z")
I have tried searching the web for answers but lately it seems that most search engines return completely unrelated results. Therefore I registered so I can ask real people for some help.
The instructions here: [https://www.elastic.co/blog/logstash\_lesson\_elasticsearch\_mapping](https://www.elastic.co/blog/logstash_lesson_elasticsearch_mapping)
Are great up to the point where i have a .json file that is improperly formatted. Without an example of a complete mapping I can't seem to fit those code snippets in the proper order with correct syntax. In short, it's unclear to me how to copy/pasta those examples into a valid .json file.
Curl fails with :
{
"error": {
"reason": "request body is required",
"root\_cause": [
{
"reason": "request body is required",
"type": "parse\_exception"
}
],
"type": "parse\_exception"
},
"status": 400
}
all I really want to do at this point is set the data type for the location or geopoint field which as I understand is a concatenation of lat/long.
If anyone can point me in the right direction I would really appreciate the help. Also, I apparently have a lot to learn about json format so any pointers there would be great too.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2019, 1:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/template-mapping-examples-not-clear-for-geoip/165832/2 "2019-01-26T01:14:58Z")
[This](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/location-dosent-convert-to-geo-point/131199) thread might help.
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### Author:  [@CharlieBrown](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/CharlieBrown)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2019, 5:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/template-mapping-examples-not-clear-for-geoip/165832/3 "2019-01-28T17:30:34Z")
Thank you Badger! That did in fact work to create the mapping to data type however, my field (geoip.coordinates) which is a concatenation of geoip.latitude and geoip.longitude is not .
I will keep stumbling through it. My IQ is just too low to be messing with this. I guess Burger King needs some janitors.
Thank you for your response Badger ;-D
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### Author:  [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2019, 5:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/template-mapping-examples-not-clear-for-geoip/165832/4 "2019-01-28T17:36:04Z")
Can you call your field just "geoip"? That field is mapped as a geo\_point by the default mapping.
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### Author:  [@CharlieBrown](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/CharlieBrown)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2019, 5:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/template-mapping-examples-not-clear-for-geoip/165832/5 "2019-01-28T17:48:39Z")
I changed it to the following:
```
geoip {
source => "clientip"
target => "geoip"
```
add\_field =\> ["[geoip][coordinates]", "%{[geoip][latitude]}" ]
add\_field =\> ["[geoip][coordinates]", "%{[geoip][longitude]}" ]
add\_tag =\> ["apache-geoip"]
}
I say the field is "geoip.coordinates" because that's how the two lat/long points "merged" into one field (named geoip.coordinates)
Can you tell anything from this filter rule in logstash/conf.d/12-apache\_filter.conf ?
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### Author:  [@CharlieBrown](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/CharlieBrown)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2019, 5:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/template-mapping-examples-not-clear-for-geoip/165832/6 "2019-01-28T17:55:21Z")
Maybe this is working now. I have a field named geoip.location and it's now being populated with coordinates like so:
{
"lon": -97.822,
"lat": 37.751
}
This may be what I've been looking for. Thank you for your help Badger!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2019, 5:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/template-mapping-examples-not-clear-for-geoip/165832/7 "2019-02-25T17:55:30Z")
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