EPSG:4326 MyFeature http://www.deegree.org/app app connid SELECT name, title, asbinary(the_geom) FROM some_table WHERE the_geom && st_geomfromtext(?, -1) SELECT astext(ST_Estimated_Extent('some_table', 'the_geom')) as bbox SELECT name, title, asbinary(st_simplifypreservetopology(the_geom, 1)) FROM some_table WHERE the_geom && st_geomfromtext(?, -1) SELECT name, title, asbinary(st_simplify(the_geom, 30)) FROM some_table WHERE the_geom && st_geomfromtext(?, -1) and not st_isempty(st_simplify(the_geom, 30))