# The index pattern syslog-pfsense-\* does not contain any of the following compatible field types: geo\_point

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-index-pattern-syslog-pfsense-does-not-contain-any-of-the-following-compatible-field-types-geo-point/199491
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [September 14, 2019, 3:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-index-pattern-syslog-pfsense-does-not-contain-any-of-the-following-compatible-field-types-geo-point/199491 "2019-09-14T03:33:42Z")
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### Author: ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2019, 5:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-index-pattern-syslog-pfsense-does-not-contain-any-of-the-following-compatible-field-types-geo-point/199491/2 "2019-09-14T05:25:49Z")

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Hi @nghia_huynh thanks for joining our community.

Perhaps take a look at this thread you likely have a similar issue where you have not created a proper mapping with the `geo_point` type

> [@Convert lat and long to geohash](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/convert-lat-and-long-to-geohash/197631):
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> I have done quite a bit of searching, but either don't know what I am doing wrong, or don't know the right question to ask. I am ingesting data, including latitude and longitude, and converting them to floats like this: filter { ruby { path =\> "/opt/bitnami/logstash/chop.rb" } mutate { rename =\> { "stop\_lon" =\> "[location][lon]" "stop\_lat" =\> "[location][lat]" } } However, I need to convert the location to a geohash so I can do mapping, but I am struggling to f…

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