Geo-polygon queryedit

Deprecated in 7.12.

Use Geoshape instead where polygons are defined in GeoJSON or Well-Known Text (WKT).

A query returning hits that only fall within a polygon of points. Here is an example:

GET /_search
{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "must": {
        "match_all": {}
      },
      "filter": {
        "geo_polygon": {
          "person.location": {
            "points": [
              { "lat": 40, "lon": -70 },
              { "lat": 30, "lon": -80 },
              { "lat": 20, "lon": -90 }
            ]
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Query optionsedit

Option Description

_name

Optional name field to identify the filter

validation_method

Set to IGNORE_MALFORMED to accept geo points with invalid latitude or longitude, COERCE to try and infer correct latitude or longitude, or STRICT (default is STRICT).

Allowed formatsedit

Lat long as arrayedit

Format as [lon, lat]

Note: the order of lon/lat here must conform with GeoJSON.

GET /_search
{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "must": {
        "match_all": {}
      },
      "filter": {
        "geo_polygon": {
          "person.location": {
            "points": [
              [ -70, 40 ],
              [ -80, 30 ],
              [ -90, 20 ]
            ]
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
Lat lon as stringedit

Format in lat,lon.

GET /_search
{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "must": {
        "match_all": {}
      },
      "filter": {
        "geo_polygon": {
          "person.location": {
            "points": [
              "40, -70",
              "30, -80",
              "20, -90"
            ]
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
Geohashedit
GET /_search
{
  "query": {
    "bool": {
      "must": {
        "match_all": {}
      },
      "filter": {
        "geo_polygon": {
          "person.location": {
            "points": [
              "drn5x1g8cu2y",
              "30, -80",
              "20, -90"
            ]
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

geo_point typeedit

The query requires the geo_point type to be set on the relevant field.

Ignore unmappededit

When set to true the ignore_unmapped option will ignore an unmapped field and will not match any documents for this query. This can be useful when querying multiple indexes which might have different mappings. When set to false (the default value) the query will throw an exception if the field is not mapped.