{
  "id": "map.spatial",
  "term": "map",
  "sense": "spatial",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a structure puts name of place in space so a person can see where each place is",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "structure.arrangement",
      "name.identifier",
      "site.location",
      "put.placement",
      "see.visual",
      "space.extent",
      "people.social"
    ],
    "interaction": "when a structure organizes names and locations in space, people can visually perceive where places are",
    "novel_properties": [
      "spatial reference",
      "visual location awareness",
      "named place organization"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 1854 London cholera map plotted each death at its street address, revealing the Broad Street pump cluster.",
      "domain": "epidemiology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The US Interstate Highway System's mile marker signs let drivers locate themselves within a named spatial grid.",
      "domain": "infrastructure"
    },
    {
      "text": "Google Maps renders real-time traffic flow over satellite imagery, aligning digital names with physical roads.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "north.direction",
    "south.direction"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "map",
    "mapped",
    "mapping",
    "maps"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "added missing constitutive components; definition remained correct and concise"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-map.spatial"
}