# Visualising Polygons (geoshapes) in Kibana 4 - Tile map

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualising-polygons-geoshapes-in-kibana-4-tile-map/34086
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [November 7, 2015, 6:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualising-polygons-geoshapes-in-kibana-4-tile-map/34086 "2015-11-07T18:15:50Z")
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### Author: ![Mikel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Mikel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mikel)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2015, 6:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualising-polygons-geoshapes-in-kibana-4-tile-map/34086/1 "2015-11-07T18:15:50Z")

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Hi all, I'm finding it difficult visualising polygons in Kibana 4 (Tile Map). I already imported some sample data; created index in ES with data type set to geo\_shape. Did same for point data (geo\_point) and that went easy. But for polygons, the available bucket aggregation (Geohash) seem to support only field types (geo\_point). I found this discussion tread on [Github](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/5039), but not quite clear how he got the polygons display. Can someone please help with this? Thanks

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### Author: ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2015, 6:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualising-polygons-geoshapes-in-kibana-4-tile-map/34086/2 "2015-11-07T18:26:17Z")

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They forked and customized Kibana to do that.

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### Author: ![Mikel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Mikel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mikel)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2015, 7:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualising-polygons-geoshapes-in-kibana-4-tile-map/34086/3 "2015-11-08T07:25:09Z")

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Thanks @Tanya for clarifying this. This means Tile map doesn't yet support bucketing of geoshapes or polygons?

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### Author: ![tbragin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbragin/32/45166_2.png) [@tbragin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbragin)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2015, 10:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualising-polygons-geoshapes-in-kibana-4-tile-map/34086/4 "2015-11-08T22:32:53Z")

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Not yet. I'd +1 or comment on that ticket you linked to in Gitbub, if you're interested in seeing this in the product. Or submit a PR 😄

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/visualising-polygons-geoshapes-in-kibana-4-tile-map/34086/5 "2017-07-06T14:09:36Z")

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