Spatial-Agent: Agentic Geo-spatial Reasoning with Scientific Core Concepts

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16965v1
• Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:33:45 GMT
• Title: Spatial-Agent: Agentic Geo-spatial Reasoning with Scientific Core Concepts
• Abstract summary: Geospatial reasoning is essential for real-world applications such as urban analytics, transportation planning, and disaster response.<n>We present Spatial-Agent, an AI agent grounded in foundational theories of spatial information science.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Geospatial reasoning is essential for real-world applications such as urban analytics, transportation planning, and disaster response. However, existing LLM-based agents often fail at genuine geospatial computation, relying instead on web search or pattern matching while hallucinating spatial relationships. We present Spatial-Agent, an AI agent grounded in foundational theories of spatial information science. Our approach formalizes geo-analytical question answering as a concept transformation problem, where natural-language questions are parsed into executable workflows represented as GeoFlow Graphs -- directed acyclic graphs with nodes corresponding to spatial concepts and edges representing transformations. Drawing on spatial information theory, Spatial-Agent extracts spatial concepts, assigns functional roles with principled ordering constraints, and composes transformation sequences through template-based generation. Extensive experiments on MapEval-API and MapQA benchmarks demonstrate that Spatial-Agent significantly outperforms existing baselines including ReAct and Reflexion, while producing interpretable and executable geospatial workflows.

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