diff --git a/milli/src/update/index_documents/extract/extract_geo_points.rs b/milli/src/update/index_documents/extract/extract_geo_points.rs
index 1849d5f5d..88ae7c177 100644
--- a/milli/src/update/index_documents/extract/extract_geo_points.rs
+++ b/milli/src/update/index_documents/extract/extract_geo_points.rs
@@ -14,18 +14,12 @@ use crate::{FieldId, InternalError, Result};
 pub fn extract_geo_points<R: io::Read>(
     mut obkv_documents: grenad::Reader<R>,
     indexer: GrenadParameters,
-    geo_field_id: Option<FieldId>, // faire un grenad vide
+    geo_field_id: FieldId,
 ) -> Result<grenad::Reader<File>> {
     let mut writer = tempfile::tempfile().and_then(|file| {
         create_writer(indexer.chunk_compression_type, indexer.chunk_compression_level, file)
     })?;
 
-    // we never encountered any documents with a `_geo` field. We can skip entirely this step
-    let geo_field_id = match geo_field_id {
-        Some(geo) => geo,
-        None => return Ok(writer_into_reader(writer)?),
-    };
-
     while let Some((docid_bytes, value)) = obkv_documents.next()? {
         let obkv = obkv::KvReader::new(value);
         let point = match obkv.get(geo_field_id) {
diff --git a/milli/src/update/index_documents/extract/mod.rs b/milli/src/update/index_documents/extract/mod.rs
index aefc0ff92..4cb21c8e4 100644
--- a/milli/src/update/index_documents/extract/mod.rs
+++ b/milli/src/update/index_documents/extract/mod.rs
@@ -182,14 +182,16 @@ fn extract_documents_data(
 
     let _ = lmdb_writer_sx.send(Ok(TypedChunk::Documents(documents_chunk.clone())));
 
-    let documents_chunk_cloned = documents_chunk.clone();
-    let lmdb_writer_sx_cloned = lmdb_writer_sx.clone();
-    rayon::spawn(move || {
-        let _ = match extract_geo_points(documents_chunk_cloned, indexer, geo_field_id) {
-            Ok(geo_points) => lmdb_writer_sx_cloned.send(Ok(TypedChunk::GeoPoints(geo_points))),
-            Err(error) => lmdb_writer_sx_cloned.send(Err(error)),
-        };
-    });
+    if let Some(geo_field_id) = geo_field_id {
+        let documents_chunk_cloned = documents_chunk.clone();
+        let lmdb_writer_sx_cloned = lmdb_writer_sx.clone();
+        rayon::spawn(move || {
+            let _ = match extract_geo_points(documents_chunk_cloned, indexer, geo_field_id) {
+                Ok(geo_points) => lmdb_writer_sx_cloned.send(Ok(TypedChunk::GeoPoints(geo_points))),
+                Err(error) => lmdb_writer_sx_cloned.send(Err(error)),
+            };
+        });
+    }
 
     let (docid_word_positions_chunk, docid_fid_facet_values_chunks): (Result<_>, Result<_>) =
         rayon::join(