Definition
1. A geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or geographic data. GIS applications are tools that allow users to create interactive queries (user-created searches), analyze spatial information, edit data in maps, and present the results of all these operations. Since many kinds of data have important geographic aspects, a GIS can have many uses: weather forecasting, sales analysis, or population forecasting.
2. A GIS enables you to envision the geographic aspects of a body of data. Basically, it lets you query or analyze a database and receive the results in the form of some kind of map.
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GIS
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Sources
http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/definition/GIS (1.); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system (2.)
Author: Svenja Gutt
