Find 25.2
Find Administration Guide

# Change or Add Location Field Names

By default, Find retrieves latitude and longitude information from the `LAT` and `LON` document fields, respectively. When you are using these fields in your documents, you can configure map visualizations by using the Find configuration settings page (see Configure Map Visualizations).

You can also update the map configuration manually if you want to use different fields as the latitude and longitude values, or if you want to use multiple location values. In this case, you modify the `map` configuration object in your `config.json` file, and update the fieldsInfo configuration with any required fields. In this case, you can use split latitude and longitude fields, or a single field that contains POINT or POLYGON definitions in Well-known text (WKT) format (for example, document fields with the `GeospatialType` field property set to `unified`).

The following table describes the properties that you can set in the `map` configuration section.

Property | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
`enabled` | Boolean | Set to true to enable the map visualizations in Find.
`attribution` | String | An optional string to include in the bottom right of the map visualization, for example a copyright notice.
`initialLocation` | Object | The location to use as the initial center point of the map visualization. This object contains the following properties: `latitude` (number). The latitude value of the initial location. `longitude` (number). The longitude value of the initial location.
`tileUrlTemplate` | String | The full Slippy Map Tilenames (SXYZ) URL for requesting a tile from an accessible tile server, with the `x`, `y`, and `z` coordinates and S server replaced with curly brace variables. For example, `https://{s}maps.example.com/tiles/{z}/{x}/{y}.png`.
`resultsStep` | Integer | The maximum number of location points that you want to be able to render on your map view. Setting this parameter to a high value can make the map slow to render.
`locationFields` | Array, objects | The details of the fields that you want to use to plot locations. Each location field object defines the fields that contain the location information in one of the following ways: `geoindexField` (string). The name of the field to use to retrieve location values. This field must contain POINT or POLYGON definitions in WKT format. You must also define this field in the `fieldsInfo` configuration object. `latitudeField` (string) and `longitudeField` (string). The name of the field to use to retrieve latitude and longitude values, respectively. You must also define these fields in the `fieldsInfo` configuration object. Each location field object in the array also contains the following properties: `displayName` (string). The name of the location set. `iconName` (string). The name of the icon to use for this location set. `iconColor` (string). The color to use for the icon. `markerColor` (string). The color to use for the location markers on the map visualization. This property accepts the values `red`, `orange`, `green`, `blue`, `purple`, `darkred`, `darkblue`, `darkgreen`, `darkpurple`, `cadetblue`, `lightred`, `beige`, `lightgreen`, `lightblue`, `pink`, `white`, `lightgray`, `gray`, and `black`.

For each object in your `locationFields` array, Find displays a set of location markers on your map visualization. For example, the following map configuration configures two sets of location fields to use in the map visualization. The map visualization includes two sets of markers, for `DefaultLocation` and `Geoindex`.

    "map": {
       "enabled": false,
       "attribution": null,
       "initialLocation": {
          "latitude": 51.5074,
          "longitude": 0.1278
       },
       "tileUrlTemplate": null,
       "resultsStep": 2500,
       "locationFields" : [
          {
             "displayName" : "DefaultLocation",
             "latitudeField" : "latitude",
             "longitudeField" : "longitude",
             "iconName" : null,
             "iconColor" : null,
             "markerColor" : null
          }, {
             "displayName" : "Geoindex",
             "geoindexField" : "geounified",
             "iconName" : "hp-pin",
             "iconColor" : "blue",
             "markerColor" : "orange"
          }
       ]
    }

Where `latitude`, `longitude`, , and `geounified` are fields defined in the `fieldsInfo` configuration:

    "fieldsInfo": {
       "latitude": {
          "names": [
             "NODE_PLACE/LAT",
             "LAT"
          ],
          "type": "NUMBER",
          "advanced": true
       },
       "longitude": {
          "names": [
             "NODE_PLACE/LON",
             "LON"
          ],
          "type": "NUMBER",
          "advanced": true
       },
       "geounified" : {
          "names" : [ "GEOUNIFIED" ]
          "type" : "geoindex",
          "advanced" : true,
       }
    }

In this case, the `GEOUNIFIED` field must contain POINT and POLYGON definitions in WKT format. To optimize performance, use a field with the `GeospatialType` field property set to `unified`.

TIP: If you want to use multiple location fields in your map visualization, but you want only one set of location markers, you can update the `fieldsInfo` configuration to add the new fields without adding a new `locationFields` option to the map configuration. For example:

    "fieldsInfo": {
       "latitude": {
          "names": [
             "NODE_PLACE/LAT",
             "LAT",
             "OG_LATITUDE"
          ],
          "type": "NUMBER",
          "advanced": true
       },
       "longitude": {
          "names": [
             "NODE_PLACE/LON",
             "LON",
             "OG_LONGITUDE"
          ],
          "type": "NUMBER",
          "advanced": true
       }

However, you cannot use this method to combine unified geoindex fields with split latitude and longitude fields.

For more information about `fieldsInfo` configuration, see Configure User-Friendly Names for Fields and Values.

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Topic Title: Change or Add Location Field Names