diff --git a/lib/mapfish-geo-lib-1.2-SNAPSHOT.jar b/lib/mapfish-geo-lib-1.2-SNAPSHOT.jar
deleted file mode 100644
index 11de66c..0000000
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diff --git a/lib/mapfish-geo-lib-1.3-SNAPSHOT.jar b/lib/mapfish-geo-lib-1.3-SNAPSHOT.jar
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1afc4e4
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diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a7fcef6..a1ba1b6 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -62,9 +62,9 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.mapfish</groupId>
       <artifactId>geo</artifactId>
-      <version>1.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+      <version>1.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
       <scope>system</scope>
-      <systemPath>${project.basedir}/lib/mapfish-geo-lib-1.2-SNAPSHOT.jar</systemPath>
+      <systemPath>${project.basedir}/lib/mapfish-geo-lib-1.3-SNAPSHOT.jar</systemPath>
     </dependency>
 
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/infochimps/hadoop/pig/geo/GeoFeature.java b/src/main/java/com/infochimps/hadoop/pig/geo/GeoFeature.java
index 04b522a..b89d5b1 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/infochimps/hadoop/pig/geo/GeoFeature.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/infochimps/hadoop/pig/geo/GeoFeature.java
@@ -35,6 +35,33 @@ public String serialize() {
         return stringer.toString();
     }
 
+    // If this looks disgusting to you, thats because it is.
+    public String toIcssThing() {
+        JSONStringer stringer   = new JSONStringer();
+        MfGeoJSONWriter builder = new MfGeoJSONWriter(stringer);
+        try {
+            stringer.object();
+            toJSON(stringer);
+            if (getFeatureId() != null) {
+                // Add md5id
+                stringer.key("md5id").value(getFeatureId());
+            }
+
+            // add weird 'geo_geometry_type' key
+            stringer.key("geo_geometry_type");
+            stringer.value(geometry.getInternalGeometry().getGeometryType());
+            
+            // Add coordinates
+            builder.encodeGeometryCoordinates(geometry.getInternalGeometry());
+            
+            stringer.endObject();
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+            return null;
+        }
+        return stringer.toString();
+    }
+    
     public String getFeatureId() {
         return id;
     }
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/infochimps/hadoop/pig/geo/GeoJSONToThing.java b/src/main/java/com/infochimps/hadoop/pig/geo/GeoJSONToThing.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5cdfc50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/com/infochimps/hadoop/pig/geo/GeoJSONToThing.java
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+package com.infochimps.hadoop.pig.geo;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+
+import org.apache.pig.EvalFunc;
+import org.apache.pig.data.Tuple;
+import org.apache.pig.data.DataBag;
+import org.apache.pig.data.TupleFactory;
+
+import org.mapfish.geo.MfGeo;
+import org.mapfish.geo.MfGeoFactory;
+import org.mapfish.geo.MfGeoJSONReader;
+import org.mapfish.geo.MfGeometry;
+import org.mapfish.geo.MfFeature;
+
+import com.vividsolutions.jts.geom.Polygon;
+import com.vividsolutions.jts.geom.Geometry;
+import com.vividsolutions.jts.geom.Point;
+import com.vividsolutions.jts.geom.Coordinate;
+
+import org.json.JSONException;
+import org.json.JSONObject;
+
+/**
+   Given a geoJSON feature, mangles it into an ICSS 'Thing'.
+ */
+public class GeoJSONToThing extends EvalFunc<String> {
+    private final MfGeoFactory mfFactory = new MfGeoFactory() {
+            public MfFeature createFeature(String id, MfGeometry geometry, JSONObject properties) {
+                return new GeoFeature(id, geometry, properties);
+            }
+        };
+
+    private final MfGeoJSONReader reader = new MfGeoJSONReader(mfFactory);
+
+    private static final String PERIOD = "\\.";
+    private static final String GEOJSON_ID = "id";
+    private static final String GEOJSON_TYPE = "type";
+    private static final String GEOJSON_FEATURE = "Feature";
+    private static final String GEOJSON_GEOM = "geometry";
+    private static final String GEOJSON_PROP = "properties";
+    
+    public String exec(Tuple input) throws IOException {
+        if (input == null || input.size() < 1 || input.isNull(0))
+            return null;
+
+        String json = input.get(0).toString();
+        String result = null;
+        try {
+            GeoFeature feature = (GeoFeature)reader.decode(json);
+            result = feature.toIcssThing();
+        } catch (JSONException e) {}
+        return result;
+    }
+}