Bulletin of Surveying and Mapping ›› 2020, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (11): 85-89.doi: 10.13474/j.cnki.11-2246.2020.0360

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A stylized filters and middleware technology of web map

LI Hang, MA Yan, ZHANG Xiang   

  1. School of Resource and Environment Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
  • Received:2020-02-27 Revised:2020-04-25 Online:2020-11-25 Published:2020-11-30

Abstract: To meet the increasing requirement of customized maps in web mapping environment, and to overcome the limitations of the current vector-based web mapping pipeline, this paper proposes a stylized map filter method based on image processing. We show that this filter is able to customize existing map images/tiles through the proposed image processing pipeline, and can be used as middleware for commercial web map services (WMS). This paper describes in details the pre-processing, image processing stack, and map tile storage of the framework. Finally, we use a watercolor map style as an example to demonstrate the proposed method, which shows its feasibility to improve the diversity and effectiveness of web map design.

Key words: web map, stylized map, image processing, map tile, middleware

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