Visual abstraction and stylisation of maps

Cartographic Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 8-18

  Isenberg, Tobias ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b DIGITEO/CNRS/INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Abstraction; And simplification; Generalisation; Illustrative rendering; Map stylisation; Non photorealistic rendering (NPR)

Indexed keywords

CARTOGRAPHY; COLOR; DESIGN; MAP;

EID: 84867634648     PISSN: 00087041     EISSN: 17432774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1743277412Y.0000000007     Document Type: Article

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