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Defining your own mappings enables you to:
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* Define which string fields should be treated as full-text fields.
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* Define which text field can be automatically vectorized by a semantic search machine learning model.
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* Define which fields contain numbers, dates, or geolocations.
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* Use data types that cannot be automatically detected (such as `geo_point` and `geo_shape`.)
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* Choose date value [formats](elasticsearch://reference/elasticsearch/mapping-reference/mapping-date-format.md), including custom date formats.
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Consider a situation where every new document inserted introduces new fields, such as with [dynamic mapping](/manage-data/data-store/mapping/dynamic-mapping.md). Each new field is added to the index mapping, which can become a problem as the mapping grows.
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Use the [mapping limit settings](elasticsearch://reference/elasticsearch/index-settings/mapping-limit.md) to limit the number of field mappings (created manually or dynamically) and prevent documents from causing a mapping explosion.
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Use the [mapping limit settings](elasticsearch://reference/elasticsearch/index-settings/mapping-limit.md) to limit the number of field mappings (created manually or dynamically) and prevent documents from causing a mapping explosion.

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