This is a continuation of my previous question: " do we would like to integrate cognitive psychology to the teaching of engineering subjects & modeling? ".
I have argued that GIS data visualization, mapping, and cognitive mapping can be united under the same framework of scaling, or the scaling law so to speak.
Jiang B. (2013), The image of the city out of the underlying scaling of city artifacts or locations, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 103(6), 1552-1566, Preprint: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1209/1209.1112.pdf.
Jiang B. (2015), Head/tail breaks for visualization of city structure and dynamics, Cities, 43, 69-77, Preprint: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1501/1501.03046.pdf.
Dear Bin: I started to browse your research work. It is very interesting and it touches some of the questions that I have for a long time. Indeed, I will get back to you.