Spatial reasoning is one of my strong suits, and I've been called neurotypical. For me, it's more like I automatically build up a rough map in my head as I travel. Or if I see a printed map, it's like I take a blurry snapshot (definitely not eidetic) that I can follow later if I make a little effort to remember it.

It's not exactly that I imagine flying over the landscape, but more that the mental map is a standalone structure. I can easily rotate it in 3D space, zoom in or out on a spot, or place myself anywhere relative to it. The level of detail depends how much time and effort went into the mapping.

My partner has very little sense of direction in most places. She has mild ASD, can't make a mental map at all, and mostly goes by landmarks I think.

I played with a lot of Legos and Transformers toys as a kid, and had fun playing Descent 2 as a young teen, so all that probably contributed for me.