A geographic information system (GIS) is a conceptualized structure that gives the capacity to catch and dissect spatial and geographic information. GIS applications (or GIS applications) are PC based instruments, that permit the client to make intuitive questions (client made ventures), investigate spatial information yield, alter datum introduced inside maps, and outwardly share the consequences of these tasks.

Geographic information science (or, GIScience)— the logical investigation of geographic ideas, applications, and systems—is normally introduced as GIS, also.

Geographic information systems are used in various innovations, procedures, strategies and techniques. It is joined to different activities and various applications, that identify with: building, arranging, the executives, transport/coordinations, protection, broadcast communications, and business. Therefore, GIS and area insight applications are at the establishment of area empowered administrations, that depend on geographic examination and perception.

GIS gives the capacity to relate beforehand irrelevant information, using area as the "key record variable". Areas and degrees that are found in the Earth's spacetime, can be recorded through the date and time of event, alongside x, y, and z facilitates; speaking to, longitude (x), scope (y), and rise (z). All Earth-based, spatial–worldly, area and degree references, ought to be relatable to each other, and eventually, to a "genuine" physical area or degree. This key quality of GIS, has started to open new roads of logical request and studies.