AI models have made immense strides in text rendering, with SOTA models producing flawless text rendering with the correct settings and prompting. Mapping, however, remains an unsolved challenge, with the propensity of AI models to introduce widespread hallucination when rendering geographic maps a major hurdle blocking their tremendous potential in producing instant beautiful publication-ready maps. With the major leaps in visual reasoning of recent AI models, is Gemini capable of reviewing a map and identifying those errors? In other words, if image models aren't yet capable of producing geographically accurate maps, can visual models at least catch those errors? Can a visual model go further and provide feedback to the image model to allow it to correct itself? It turns out that Gemini is quite strong at identifying and listing all of the labeling errors in an AI-generated map (though not perfectly), but despite extensive experimentation, we were not able to find a workflow that allowed an autonomous feedback loop from the vision model to the image model to correct the identified mistakes. At the very least, however, it appears that vision models are now strong enough to identify when a map has errors, meaning it could at least flag that a generated map has severe errors and point them out and even do so at scale, allowing bulk accuracy scanning of maps in high-volume automated image generation workflows where generated images might contain geographic elements.
Let's start with this global legislative map we created earlier this year that contains an array of gross labeling errors:
Let's ask Gemini 3.7 Flash to examine the map and see if it can spot the errors:
Look closely at the country names in the labels and the countries they are connected to. Give me an exhaustive list of all of them that are wrong or state CORRECT if all are correct.
Indeed, it actually catches most of the errors, though it isn't fully correct:
This infographic contains numerous geographical errors typical of AI-generated
maps. Almost all of the pointer lines terminate on the wrong countries,
continents, or bodies of water.
Only Canada and Mexico (and arguably Japan, though its dot is shifted north
toward Sakhalin/Sea of Okhotsk) point to their roughly correct geographic
regions.
Exhaustive List of Incorrect Country Connections
1. Algeria
- Points to: Greenland (Arctic/North America)
- Actual Location: North Africa
2. India
- Points to: Western South America (Peru / Ecuador / Chile region)
- Actual Location: South Asia
3. Israel
- Points to: Southern South America (Patagonia / Chile / Argentina)
- Actual Location: Middle East (Levant)
4. Pakistan
- Points to: Eastern South America / South Atlantic Ocean (Brazil coast)
- Actual Location: South Asia
5. Morocco (Duplicate Box 1 – Bottom Left)
- Points to: South Atlantic Ocean (off the east coast of South America)
- Actual Location: Northwest Africa (Note: This is an accidental duplicate
box)
6. Morocco (Duplicate Box 2 – Middle Left)
- Points to: Sahel / West Africa (Mauritania / Mali / Senegal region,
south of Morocco)
- Actual Location: Northwest Africa
7. France
- Points to: Central Mediterranean Sea / Italy / Tyrrhenian Sea
- Actual Location: Western Europe
8. Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Points to: Scandinavia / Sweden / Baltic Sea (Northern Europe)
- Actual Location: Southeastern Europe (Balkans)
9. Croatia
- Points to: Eastern Europe / Western Russia / Ukraine region
- Actual Location: Southeastern Europe (Adriatic Coast)
10. Denmark
- Points to: Arctic Ocean / Norwegian Sea (north of Scandinavia)
- Actual Location: Northern Europe (Jutland Peninsula)
11. Hungary
- Points to: Central Siberia / Russia (Northern Asia)
- Actual Location: Central Europe
12. China
- Points to: Russian Far East / Sea of Okhotsk / Kamchatka Peninsula
- Actual Location: East Asia
13. Jordan
- Points to: Philippine Sea / Western Pacific Ocean (East Asia/Oceania)
- Actual Location: Middle East (Levant)
14. United Kingdom
- Points to: South Pacific Ocean (near New Zealand / east of Australia)
- Actual Location: Northwestern Europe (British Isles)
15. Venezuela
- Points to: Southern Ocean / Antarctica (south of Australia)
- Actual Location: Northern South America
16. United States
- Points to: Southern Indian Ocean (southwest of Australia / near
Antarctica)
- Actual Location: North America
17. Republic of the Congo
- Points to: Southern Ocean / Antarctica (south of Africa)
- Actual Location: Central Africa
18. Nigeria
- Points to: Horn of Africa / Indian Ocean / Arabian Sea (East Africa)
- Actual Location: West Africa (Gulf of Guinea)
19. Indonesia
- Points to: Eastern Indian Ocean / Bay of Bengal (west of Sumatra)
- Actual Location: Maritime Southeast Asia
Correctly Connected Labels
- Canada (Points accurately to Canada)
- Mexico (Points accurately to Mexico)
Can it come up with instructions for Nano Banana Pro to fix things?
Give me detailed instructions for Nano Banana Pro to move the labels around to fix things.
Yielding:
Here is a detailed, prompt-ready instruction set formatted specifically for Nano
Banana Pro (and multi-turn Gemini image editing) to fix all geographical
alignments, layout duplicates, and pointer trajectories while preserving the
futuristic HUD aesthetic.
Master Edit Prompt for Nano Banana Pro
Instruction Prompt:
"Modify the provided infographic ('GLOBAL LEGISLATIVE & REGULATORY
LANDSCAPE: 2026 ROUNDUP') to correct all geographical pointer connections and
clean up the UI layout. Maintain the exact visual style: dark high-tech HUD
theme, glowing cyan/orange neon lines, circuit-style grid background, card
styling, icons, and typography."
Specific Edit Instructions by Section
1. Card Removal & De-duplication
- Remove Duplicate MOROCCO Box: Delete the redundant "MOROCCO" card located at
the bottom-left of the screen (above Republic of the Congo / below
Pakistan). Keep only one single "MOROCCO" card on the left-hand side.
2. Pointer & Pin Relocations (Geographical Corrections)
Update the glowing pointer lines and target glowing dots so each card connects
strictly to its accurate country on the map:
| UI Card Label | Current (Incorrect) Target | **New Correct Target Location** |
| :-------------------------------------- | :--------------------------------- | :-------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **UNITED STATES** *(bottom-right)* | Southern Indian Ocean | **North America** (Mainland United States, between Canada and Mexico) |
| **ALGERIA** *(top-left)* | Greenland | **North Africa** (Algeria) |
| **VENEZUELA** *(bottom-right)* | Antarctica / Southern Ocean | **Northern South America** (Venezuela) |
| **INDIA** *(bottom-left)* | Western South America (Peru/Chile) | **South Asia** (Indian Subcontinent) |
| **PAKISTAN** *(center-left)* | South Atlantic / Brazil | **South Asia** (Pakistan, northwest of India) |
| **ISRAEL** *(bottom-left)* | Patagonia / Southern Chile | **Middle East** (Levant coast / Israel) |
| **JORDAN** *(middle-right)* | Philippine Sea / Western Pacific | **Middle East** (Jordan, east of Israel) |
| **UNITED KINGDOM** *(lower-right)* | South Pacific Ocean / New Zealand | **Northwestern Europe** (British Isles) |
| **FRANCE** *(center-top)* | Central Mediterranean / Italy | **Western Europe** (Hexagon / France) |
| **BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA** *(top-left)* | Scandinavia / Sweden | **Southeastern Europe** (Western Balkans) |
| **CROATIA** *(top-center)* | Western Russia / Eastern Europe | **Southeastern Europe** (Adriatic coast) |
| **HUNGARY** *(top-right)* | Central Siberia / Russia | **Central Europe** (Carpathian/Pannonian Basin) |
| **DENMARK** *(top-center)* | Arctic Ocean / Norwegian Sea | **Northern Europe** (Jutland Peninsula / Denmark) |
| **CHINA** *(top-right)* | Sea of Okhotsk / Kamchatka | **East Asia** (Mainland China) |
| **NIGERIA** *(center)* | Horn of Africa / Indian Ocean | **West Africa** (Gulf of Guinea / Nigeria) |
| **REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO** *(bottom)* | Southern Ocean / Antarctica | **Central Africa** (Congo Basin / Republic of the Congo) |
| **INDONESIA** *(lower-center)* | Indian Ocean (Bay of Bengal) | **Maritime Southeast Asia** (Indonesian Archipelago / Java & Sumatra) |
| **MOROCCO** *(single remaining card)* | Sahel / Mali / Mauritania | **Northwest Africa** (Morocco / Maghreb) |
(Note: Keep CANADA and MEXICO exactly as they are, as their current connections
to North America are already accurate.)
3. Card Layout & Cable Management Optimization
- Reposition Cards for Clean Line Routing:
- Move the UNITED STATES card to the left margin (placed between CANADA
and MEXICO) so its line connects directly to the US without spanning
across the entire ocean.
- Move INDIA and PAKISTAN cards to the lower-right or bottom-center
margins closer to South Asia.
- Move ISRAEL and JORDAN cards to the upper-right or top-center area near
the Middle East.
- Move VENEZUELA to the lower-left margin next to South America.
- Line Crossing: Ensure connecting glowing lines curve neatly around the outer
edges of the globe without crisscrossing each other across the central map.
Unfortunately, this not only yields a new mostly incorrect map, it removes all of the information of the original:
Instead, what if we just ask Nano Banana Pro to fix its own image itself:
Fix this map - move the infoboxes to the right countries.
Unfortunately, this didn't do much:
Let's try a different prompt:
Think VERY CAREFULLY. Move all of the infoboxes to be connected to the right country, many are connected to the wrong country.
Let's try a different prompt and Nano Banana 2 instead of Pro:
Move the country label boxes to be connected to the right countries.
Amazingly, Nano Banana 2 states "I have updated the map, moving the label boxes so they are now directly connected to their respective countries. For example, the Mexico box is now in North America, Israel is in the Middle East, United States is over its borders, and Algeria is in North Africa." but the map is essentially unchanged:
Despite extensive experimentation, we were unable to find a workflow that allowed Nano Banana Pro to correct its geographic labeling.