ElasticSearch natively supports the use of geolocation types: special types that allow you to localize your document in geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) around the world.
There are two main document types used in the geographic world: point and shape. In this recipe, we'll see geo point, the base element of geolocation.
The type of the field must be set to geo_point in order to define a geo point.
You can extend the earlier order example by adding a new field that stores the location of a customer. The following will be the result:
{
"order": {
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "string",
"store": "yes",
"index": "not_analyzed"
},
"date": {
"type": "date",
"store": "no",
"index": "not_analyzed"
},
"customer_id": {
"type": "string",
"store": "yes",
"index": "not_analyzed"
}...