# What Are Valid Geometries **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 15, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-valid-geometries/17540 "2014-05-15T16:19:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bbehling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f1d935/32.png) [@bbehling](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bbehling)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-valid-geometries/17540/1 "2014-05-15T16:19:49Z")
Hello ES Users. Does anyone have some documentation as to what ES considers valid geometries? Polygons that I am trying to load into ES are created in an ESRI/SQL stack, and we use the validation methods in this stack to validate our geometrres . But when I try to load some of the geometries into ES, I get a self-intersecting polygon error. This is fine, I can modify the geometries to support ES, but I'm not sure as to what I'm looking for to make a valid ES geometry. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/93d3f489-0a54-4bad-9639-4f36e377a113%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/93d3f489-0a54-4bad-9639-4f36e377a113%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**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, 1:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-are-valid-geometries/17540/2 "2017-07-06T01:29:06Z")