According to Scott, the future map is the mental map of a culture: Science fiction acts as a philosophical and psychological playground, a place to safely decode what I call the future maps of cultural echoes.
But the ultimate aim of this reductive analysis is its overriding soteriological (or even therapeutic) concern: mapping the mental domain so that afflictive tendencies (kliṣṭa-manas) may be properly identified and countered.
In principle the described translation algorithm adopts all nodes in the AF map in size, position and colour as they appear in the PD map to maintain the mental map during translation.
Maps revealing the mental health units and hospitals where people can be detained if police believe they are a danger to themselves or others because of a mental health problem show Norfolk, Hampshire and Devon have not one dedicated place of safety for children under 16.
That information will be mapped onto the mental topography to create the ultimate voyeuristic experience, in which you watch the mental activity of a stranger mix with your own changing physical reactions.
Therefore we do not apply a layout algorithm to the map but try to preserve the mental map of the PD map within the AF map.
In On The Map I write that the mental maps we create from childhood reading never leave us, and that it may still be easier to find our way to the booty on Treasure Island than the train station.
