Mapping Geohashesedit
The first step is to decide just how much precision you need.
Although you could
index all geo-points with the default full 12 levels of precision, do you
really need to be accurate to within a few centimeters? You can save yourself
a lot of space in the index by reducing your precision requirements to
something more realistic, such as 1km
:
PUT /attractions { "mappings": { "restaurant": { "properties": { "name": { "type": "string" }, "location": { "type": "geo_point", "geohash_prefix": true,"geohash_precision": "1km"
} } } } }
Setting | |
The precision can be specified as an absolute number, representing the
length of the geohash, or as a distance. A precision of |
With this mapping in place, geohash prefixes of lengths 1 to 7 will be indexed, providing geohashes accurate to about 150 meters.