diff --git a/src/sources/mysql/mysql-cast-rules.lisp b/src/sources/mysql/mysql-cast-rules.lisp
index e81c48f..00c9bd2 100644
--- a/src/sources/mysql/mysql-cast-rules.lisp
+++ b/src/sources/mysql/mysql-cast-rules.lisp
@@ -135,6 +135,10 @@
      :using pgloader.transforms::set-to-enum-array)
 
     ;; geometric data types, just POINT for now
+    (:source (:type "geometry")
+     :target (:type "point")
+     :using pgloader.transforms::convert-mysql-point)
+
     (:source (:type "point")
      :target (:type "point")
      :using pgloader.transforms::convert-mysql-point))
diff --git a/src/sources/mysql/mysql-schema.lisp b/src/sources/mysql/mysql-schema.lisp
index 223cc40..ca40283 100644
--- a/src/sources/mysql/mysql-schema.lisp
+++ b/src/sources/mysql/mysql-schema.lisp
@@ -398,8 +398,9 @@ order by table_name, ordinal_position"
    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))))
+    (:geometry  (format nil "astext(`~a`) as `~a`" name name))
+    (:point     (format nil "astext(`~a`) as `~a`" name name))
+    (t          (format nil "`~a`" name))))
 
 (defun get-column-list (dbname table-name)
   "Some MySQL datatypes have a meaningless default output representation, we