FRIEDA: Benchmarking Multi-Step Cartographic Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
Paper • 2512.08016 • Published
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FRIEDA is a multimodal benchmark for open-ended cartographic reasoning over real-world map images.
Each example pairs reference maps (and optional contextual maps) with a natural-language question and a reference answer. The benchmark targets common GIS relation types (i.e., topological, metric, directional) and includes questions that require multi-step reasoning and cross-map grounding.
The dataset questions and answers are in English.
from datasets import load_dataset
# Full dataset (split name = "data")
ds = load_dataset("knowledge-computing/FRIEDA", split="data")
print(ds[0].keys())
print(ds[0]["question_text"]) # Actual question being asked
print(ds[0]["images"]) # List of string paths to images (e.g., "images/...png")
print(ds[0]["context_images"]) # List of string paths to contextual images