A
geographic information system or
geographical information system (
GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of spatial or geographical data. The
acronym GIS is sometimes used for
geographic information science (GIScience) to refer to the academic discipline that studies geographic
information systems and is a large domain within the broader academic discipline of
geoinformatics. What goes beyond a GIS is a
spatial data infrastructure, a concept that has no such restrictive boundaries.
