Patent ID: 8913300

Claim:
A machine-implemented method of rendering an image related to a target area of a map, the method comprising: receiving, by one or more computing devices, image data and an associated depthmap of the target area, the depthmap for determining a height value for each of the plurality of pixels of the image data; receiving, by the one or more computing devices, vector image data corresponding to the image data of the target area; determining, by the one or more computing devices, the height value for each of the plurality of pixels based on the associated depthmap; creating, by the one or more computing devices, a mask based on the determined height value for each of the plurality of pixels of the image data; applying, by the one or more computing devices, the mask to the vector image data; and providing for display, by the one or more computing devices, an image of the target area comprising the received image data and the masked vector image data.