No you can't out of the box. If you want to use built in geo filters you need geo points.
That said, you can use scripts to do it based on lat,lon fields but it will be slower. My 2 cents -- David ;-) Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs Le 29 juil. 2014 à 22:30, Madhavan Ramachandran <[email protected]> a écrit : Hi Team, I am trying to find a solution for the below Geo boundary based search.. My index have property for lat and lon as double.. not as a geopoint.. Here is my mapping for my index.. How do i use the lon and lat from the below mapping for geo distance filter/geo distance range filter ? Name Type Format Store? data string getpath string id double Region string Submarket string addr1 string addr2 string city string citymarket string country string countryid long cultureid long data string details string fax string id string language string lat double lon double When I search for the documents.. i got the below exception.. Query : { "filter": { "geo_distance" : { "distance" : "300km", "location" : { "lat" : 45, "lon" : -122 } } } } Exception: "error": "SearchPhaseExecutionException[Failed to execute phase [query], all shards failed; shardFailures {[o3f66HetT3OSpVw895w0nA][offlocations][4]: SearchParseException[[offlocations][4]: from[-1],size[-1]: Parse Failure [Failed to parse source [{\n\"filter\": {\n \"geo_distance\" : {\n \"distance\" : \"300km\",\n \"location\" : {\n \"lat\" : 45,\n \"lon\" : -122\n }\n } \n }\n}]]]; nested: I tried with removing the location, which i dont have in my mapping.. {"filter": { "geo_distance" : { "distance" : "300km", "lat" : 45, "lon" : -122 } }} I got the exception as lon is not a geo_point field.. ElasticsearchIllegalArgumentException[the character '-' is not a valid geohash character]; }]" If i remove the "-" infront of lon.. then the exception says : QueryParsingException[[offlocations] field [lon] is not a geo_point field]; -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/85658110-e7ae-42c5-8ca9-13f10c7f3820%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/6A9B82CB-37AC-45A2-842A-703E8965D5B9%40pilato.fr. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
