# Unable to select correct Index in map visualisation
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-select-correct-index-in-map-visualisation/228466
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** maps
**Created:** [April 17, 2020, 7:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-select-correct-index-in-map-visualisation/228466 "2020-04-17T07:58:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@kagashe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kagashe)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2020, 7:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-select-correct-index-in-map-visualisation/228466/1 "2020-04-17T07:58:33Z")
Hi all, I have ingested some log data with logstash, applied the geoip filter and the geoip fileds are populating however when I try to create a map visualisation, the index with the data is not available?
What am I missing here?
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### Author:  [@jsanz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsanz)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2020, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-select-correct-index-in-map-visualisation/228466/2 "2020-04-17T08:27:51Z")
Have you checked if your index mapping has the `geo_point` type where your cordinates are stored? You need to specify the type manually in your index mapping, otherwise the data is inserted as a different type, logstash won't do that for you.
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### Author:  [@kagashe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kagashe)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2020, 8:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-select-correct-index-in-map-visualisation/228466/3 "2020-04-17T08:41:43Z")
hi @jsanz I created my index before ingestion with the following code
```auto
PUT /bitvise-geo
{
"settings" : {
"number_of_shards" : 1
},
"mappings" : {
"properties" : {
"geoip.location": { "type": "geo_point" }
}
}
}
```
However I don't seem to have a `geoip.location` field in the output only these
```auto
geoip.location.lat
geoip.location.lon
geoip.longitude
geoip.latitude
```
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### Author:  [@jsanz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jsanz)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2020, 10:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-select-correct-index-in-map-visualisation/228466/4 "2020-04-17T10:07:34Z")
Objects are one of the supported types for geo\_point, there's plenty of posts on this topic here at discuss, I've found this one [where a colleague suggests to refresh the index pattern in Kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-get-geoip-location-to-a-geo-point-in-es/107252/6?).
What do you see on your index pattern?
Another thing to try is to do a simple geospatial query against your index to confirm your data is stored as geometries, for example:
```auto
GET bitvise-geo/_search
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [{ "match_all": {} }],
"filter": {
"geo_bounding_box": {
"geoip.location": {
"top_left": { "lat": 90, "lon": -120 },
"bottom_right": { "lat": -90, "lon": 120}
} } } } } }
```
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### Author:  [@kagashe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kagashe)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2020, 10:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-select-correct-index-in-map-visualisation/228466/5 "2020-04-17T10:43:10Z")
I ended up having to re-create the index pattern but at least it's working now.
Thanks for your help!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2020, 10:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-select-correct-index-in-map-visualisation/228466/6 "2020-05-15T10:43:12Z")
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