diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 91fb8f5..20e027d 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ WORKDIR /mnt/datasette
 # for csv import - https://datasette.io/tools/csvs-to-sqlite
 # for datasette db maniupluations and tools - https://datasette.io/tools/sqlite-utils
 # for geojson api responses - https://pypi.org/project/geojson/
-RUN pip install csvs-to-sqlite sqlite-utils geojson
+RUN pip install csvs-to-sqlite sqlite-utils geojson plpygis
 
 # Add the csv data files
 COPY data/ .
diff --git a/plugins/geo_json_renderer.py b/plugins/geo_json_renderer.py
index 8d3a7cc..1c80c51 100644
--- a/plugins/geo_json_renderer.py
+++ b/plugins/geo_json_renderer.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from datasette import hookimpl
 from datasette.utils.asgi import Response
 import geojson
+from plpygis import Geometry
 
 # https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/plugin_hooks.html#register-output-renderer-datasette
 
@@ -23,12 +24,23 @@ async def render_geo_json(
     feature_list = list()
 
     for row in result:
-        # https://geojson.org/geojson-spec.html#id2
-        point = geojson.Point((row['longitude'], row['latitude']))
-        # create a geojson feature
-        feature = geojson.Feature(geometry=point, properties=dict(row))
-        # append the current feature to the list of all features
-        feature_list.append(feature)
+        # Is this a blatant Point object?
+        if 'longitude' in row.keys() and 'latitude' in row.keys():
+            # https://geojson.org/geojson-spec.html#id2
+            point = geojson.Point((row['longitude'], row['latitude']))
+            # create a geojson feature
+            feature = geojson.Feature(geometry=point, properties=dict(row))
+            # append the current feature to the list of all features
+            feature_list.append(feature)
+        
+        # Otherwise, does this have a "the_geom" object, which was used in the old Carto database, which encodes geographical data as a string in the "well-known binary" format?
+        elif 'the_geom' in row.keys():
+            feature = Geometry(row['the_geom'])
+            feature_list.append(feature)
+          
+        else:
+            # TODO: do we need to have error handling here?
+            pass
 
     feature_collection = geojson.FeatureCollection(feature_list)
     body = geojson.dumps(feature_collection)