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Abstraction and Scale in Spatialisation

Cartographers have recently become involved in extending geographic concepts and cartographic design approaches to the depiction of non-geographic data archives, using so-called spatialised views or information spaces. Spatialisations differ from ordinary data visualisation and geovisualisation in that they may be explored as if they represented spatial information. This short paper highlights abstraction and scale as two important design elements for spatialisation that should be extracted from a design framework for the construction of cartographically sound spatialised displays that is informed by GI Science. As recent usability studies on spatialised displays suggest, cartographically informed design guidelines enable information designers to not only construct conceptually robust and usable information spaces, but also allow information seekers to more efficiently extract knowledge that is buried in large digital data archives.