diff --git a/docs/guide/defining-documents.rst b/docs/guide/defining-documents.rst
index 5d8b628a..07bce3bb 100644
--- a/docs/guide/defining-documents.rst
+++ b/docs/guide/defining-documents.rst
@@ -531,6 +531,8 @@ field name to the index definition.
 Sometimes its more efficient to index parts of Embedded / dictionary fields,
 in this case use 'dot' notation to identify the value to index eg: `rank.title`
 
+.. _geospatial-indexes:
+
 Geospatial indexes
 ------------------
 
diff --git a/mongoengine/fields.py b/mongoengine/fields.py
index 85a1a743..e18dd8ef 100644
--- a/mongoengine/fields.py
+++ b/mongoengine/fields.py
@@ -1613,7 +1613,12 @@ class UUIDField(BaseField):
 
 
 class GeoPointField(BaseField):
-    """A list storing a latitude and longitude.
+    """A list storing a longitude and latitude coordinate. 
+
+    .. note:: this represents a generic point in a 2D plane and a legacy way of 
+        representing a geo point. It admits 2d indexes but not "2dsphere" indexes 
+        in MongoDB > 2.4 which are more natural for modeling geospatial points. 
+        See :ref:`geospatial-indexes` 
 
     .. versionadded:: 0.4
     """
@@ -1635,7 +1640,7 @@ class GeoPointField(BaseField):
 
 
 class PointField(GeoJsonBaseField):
-    """A geo json field storing a latitude and longitude.
+    """A GeoJSON field storing a longitude and latitude coordinate.
 
     The data is represented as:
 
@@ -1654,7 +1659,7 @@ class PointField(GeoJsonBaseField):
 
 
 class LineStringField(GeoJsonBaseField):
-    """A geo json field storing a line of latitude and longitude coordinates.
+    """A GeoJSON field storing a line of longitude and latitude coordinates.
 
     The data is represented as:
 
@@ -1672,7 +1677,7 @@ class LineStringField(GeoJsonBaseField):
 
 
 class PolygonField(GeoJsonBaseField):
-    """A geo json field storing a polygon of latitude and longitude coordinates.
+    """A GeoJSON field storing a polygon of longitude and latitude coordinates.
 
     The data is represented as: