diff --git a/mysql-cast-rules.lisp b/mysql-cast-rules.lisp
index 52f85e0..a2953a4 100644
--- a/mysql-cast-rules.lisp
+++ b/mysql-cast-rules.lisp
@@ -121,7 +121,12 @@
     (:source (:type "year")      :target (:type "integer"))
 
     (:source (:type "enum")
-     :target (:type ,#'cast-enum)))
+     :target (:type ,#'cast-enum))
+
+    ;; geometric data types, just POINT for now
+    (:source (:type "point")
+     :target (:type "point")
+     :using pgloader.transforms::convert-mysql-point))
   "Data Type Casting rules to migrate from MySQL to PostgreSQL")
 
 (defvar *cast-rules* nil "Specific casting rules added in the command.")
@@ -328,7 +333,8 @@ that would be int and int(7) or varchar and varchar(25)."
 	   ("k"  "bigint"    "bigint(20)"      nil nil nil)
 	   ("l"  "numeric"   "numeric(18,3)"   nil nil nil)
 	   ("m"  "decimal"   "decimal(15,5)"   nil nil nil)
-	   ("n"  "timestamp" "timestamp" "CURRENT_TIMESTAMP" "NO" "on update CURRENT_TIMESTAMP"))))
+	   ("n"  "timestamp" "timestamp" "CURRENT_TIMESTAMP" "NO" "on update CURRENT_TIMESTAMP")
+	   ("o"  "point"     "point"     nil "YES" nil))))
 
     (loop
        for (name dtype ctype nullable default extra) in columns
diff --git a/mysql.lisp b/mysql.lisp
index 7ae01aa..888659e 100644
--- a/mysql.lisp
+++ b/mysql.lisp
@@ -258,6 +258,15 @@ GROUP BY table_name, index_name;" dbname)))
 ;;;
 ;;; Map a function to each row extracted from MySQL
 ;;;
+(defun get-column-sql-expression (name type)
+  "Return per-TYPE SQL expression to use given a column NAME.
+
+   Mostly we just use the name, but in case of POINT we need to use
+   astext(name)."
+  (case (intern (string-upcase type) "KEYWORD")
+    (:point  (format nil "astext(`~a`) as `~a`" name name))
+    (t       (format nil "`~a`" name))))
+
 (defun get-column-list-with-is-nulls (dbname table-name)
   "We can't just SELECT *, we need to cater for NULLs in text columns ourselves.
    This function assumes a valid connection to the MySQL server has been
@@ -272,7 +281,7 @@ order by ordinal_position" dbname table-name)))
 				  "tinytext" "mediumtext" "longtext")
 			   :test #'string-equal)
      collect nil into nulls
-     collect (format nil "`~a`" name) into cols
+     collect (get-column-sql-expression name type) into cols
      when is-null
      collect (format nil "`~a` is null" name) into cols and collect t into nulls
      finally (return (values cols nulls))))
diff --git a/transforms.lisp b/transforms.lisp
index 971bfde..ad31528 100644
--- a/transforms.lisp
+++ b/transforms.lisp
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@
 		 date-with-no-separator
 		 tinyint-to-boolean
 		 int-to-ip
-		 ip-range))
+		 ip-range
+		 convert-mysql-point))
 
 (defun intern-symbol (symbol-name)
   (intern (string-upcase symbol-name)
@@ -83,3 +84,14 @@
   (let ((ip-start (int-to-ip (parse-integer start-integer-string)))
 	(ip-end   (int-to-ip (parse-integer end-integer-string))))
     (concatenate 'simple-base-string ip-start "-" ip-end)))
+
+(defun convert-mysql-point (mysql-point-as-string)
+  "Transform the MYSQL-POINT-AS-STRING into a suitable representation for
+   PostgreSQL.
+
+  Input:   \"POINT(48.5513589 7.6926827)\" ; that's using astext(column)
+  Output:  (48.5513589,7.6926827)"
+  (when mysql-point-as-string
+    (let* ((point (subseq mysql-point-as-string 5)))
+      (setf (aref point (position #\Space point)) #\,)
+      point)))