diff --git a/src/plugin/indexer-solr/schema.xml b/src/plugin/indexer-solr/schema.xml
index ba71fe148e..076adac91e 100644
--- a/src/plugin/indexer-solr/schema.xml
+++ b/src/plugin/indexer-solr/schema.xml
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
       -->
     <fieldType name="date" class="solr.TrieDateField" omitNorms="true" precisionStep="0" positionIncrementGap="0"/>
     
-    <fieldType name="location" class="solr.LatLonType" subFieldSuffix="_coordinate"/>
+    <fieldType name="location" class="solr.LatLonPointSpatialField"/>
     
     <!-- A Trie based date field for faster date range queries and date faceting. -->
     <fieldType name="tdate" class="solr.TrieDateField" omitNorms="true" precisionStep="6" positionIncrementGap="0"/>