Using the geo_bounding_box query

One of most common operations in geolocalization is searching for a box (square).

Getting ready

You need an up-and-running Elasticsearch installation as we described in the Downloading and installing Elasticsearch recipe in Chapter 2, Downloading and Setup.

To execute curl via the command line, you need to install curl for your operating system.

To correctly execute the following commands, you need an index populated with the chapter_07/populate_geo.sh geoscript, available in the online code.

How to do it...

To execute a geobounding box query, we will perform the following steps:

1. A search to filter documents related to a bounding box 40.03, 72.0 and 40.717, 70.99 can be done with a similar query:

           curl -XPOST http://127.0.0.1:9200/test-mindex/_search?pretty -d 
          '{
               "query": {
               "geo_bounding_box": {
                         "pin.location": {
                             "bottom_right": {
                   ...