arXiv AI

Toward Governance-Aware Autonomous GIS: A Narrative Review of Ethical and Privacy Risks in LLM-Enabled GeoAI

The paper reviews ethical and privacy risks of large language model (LLM)–enabled geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI), identifying eight recurring issues such as data provenance, spatial privacy, algorithmic bias, and technical risks. It evaluates current responses, noting many remain largely unaddressed or conceptual, and proposes a governance‑aware architecture with enforceable controls illustrated by a flood‑response routing scenario. The authors call for empirical validation, spatially specific interpretability tools, and workforce training to address these emerging risks.

arXiv AI
Sep 15

ANASSA: An Agentic AI Orchestration Framework for Spatial Intelligence

The paper introduces ANASSA, an agentic AI orchestration framework designed for spatial intelligence in geographic information systems. It addresses gaps in current systems by integrating structured spatial reasoning, multi‑agent workflow orchestration, execution feedback, authoritative validation, provenance, uncertainty handling, and human decision authority. The architecture is detailed with eleven components across four layers, a six‑step Geospatial AI Cognitive Loop, cross‑component contracts, and governance mechanisms to ensure traceability, reproducibility, and accountability.

By Constantinos Papantoniou, Brian Hilton
arXiv AI
Oct 15

A Decade of PhotoMappers: A Longitudinal Study of Crowdsourced Disaster Photos Geolocalization with Vision-Language Models and Geospatial Reasoning

arXiv:2610.15403v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Crowdsourced disaster imagery provides timely, ground-level observations when conventional disaster mapping is delayed or incomplete, yet its geographi...

By Hao Li, Wenping Yin, Fabian Deuser, Jia Jia, Ziqi Liu, Levente Juh\'asz, Fan Zhang, Filip Biljecki
arXiv AI
Oct 12

GeoFitBench-LLM: A Benchmark for Assessing Large Language Models' Capabilities in Geospatial Data Requirements Elicitation for Geo-Analytic Tasks

GeoFitBench-LLM is a benchmark designed to evaluate large language models (LLMs) on their ability to elicit geospatial data requirements for geo‑analytic tasks. It focuses on two reasoning dimensions—spatio‑temporal relational and semantic grounding—and uses a provider‑independent schema to encode ground‑truth requirements. Experiments on seven models show that while many can identify necessary resources, accurately specifying fitness‑for‑use remains challenging, with GPT‑5.4 Thinking recovering all resources in 66.67% of cases.

By Amirhossein Vahdat, Thierry Badard, Luc Lamontagne
arXiv AI
Sep 12

Geospatial AI, Dataverse Metadata, and the Study of Place-Based Government

The paper presents a knowledge graph built from Harvard Dataverse’s public data, linking 102,650 datasets to 215,985 nodes and 528,003 edges that include keywords, publications, subjects, journals, and locations. About 43,991 datasets contain geospatial metadata, and 7,654 are identified as policy‑relevant, with elections and legislatures forming the largest cluster. The authors highlight the challenge of place resolution—disconnected nodes representing the same location—and propose the graph as a testbed for AI‑driven metadata enrichment and entity resolution, noting a bias toward American city‑level data.

By Danny EBanks, Devika Jain