Improving Mobile GeoMaps Applications with Expressive Rendering : A Test Case

We present a collection of techniques that take a Google Street View image and generates an expressive rendering of vegetation based on the style of Michael Gage’s travel journals. This serves as a prototype for the general problem of rendering an expressive representation of an urban enviroment from a photorealistic image. With this prototype we can evaluate the feasibility of generating these images adequately and the usefulness of this approach.