# The Closer, The Better - nested geo\_distance and scoring
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-closer-the-better-nested-geo-distance-and-scoring/82473
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 15, 2017, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-closer-the-better-nested-geo-distance-and-scoring/82473 "2017-04-15T14:15:16Z")
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### Author:  [@zzvara](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zzvara)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2017, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-closer-the-better-nested-geo-distance-and-scoring/82473/1 "2017-04-15T14:15:16Z")
Is it feasible to do a `geo_distance` query with an efficient scoring, in the following way?
Each document might have up to 10 nested objects with a field "location" as type `geo_point`included. I'd like to retrieve, sort and score documents based on the "location", but the scoring should be done based on the "closest" of all the nested objects that each document have. I might not getting valid results, since it seems that all the results have very, very similar scores.
Please take a look onto my query:
GET /whatever/couchbaseDocument/\_search
{
"size": 1000,
"query": {
"nested": {
"path": "doc.inheritedProperties.places",
"query": {
"function\_score": {
"functions": [
{
"linear": {
"doc.inheritedProperties.places.location.coordinates": {
"origin": {
"lat": 43.000,
"lon": 46.000
},
"scale": "1km",
"offset": "0km",
"decay": 0.5
}
},
"weight": 3
}
],
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": {
"match\_all": {}
},
"filter": {
"geo\_distance": {
"distance": "100km",
"doc.inheritedProperties.places.location.coordinates": {
"lat": 43.0000,
"lon": 46.0000
}
}
}
}
},
"score\_mode": "multiply"
}
}
}
}
}
I've got 10000 documents indexed with coordinates uniformly random between 40.0 - 50.0 as for lon and lat.
The score is `"_score": 0.5936181` for the first 50 retrieved documents, and then `"_score": 0.026814064` for the next 50. I've also tried to tweak the parameters of the scoring functions as well as trying out different decays. Same results, but with different scores: top 50 or so documents have the same score.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2017, 2:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-closer-the-better-nested-geo-distance-and-scoring/82473/2 "2017-05-13T14:22:58Z")
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