WHAT’S GIS
The term GIS is often poorly understood by a wide auditorium so here are a few definitions to assist with better understanding of the term:
- GIS is a technology for managing geographically referenced data.
- GIS is a software designed to capture, manage, analyse and display all forms of geographically referenced information. (ESRI definition)
- GIS (Geographic Information System) is a set of graphical and alphanumeric data organized in such a way to provide for fully synchronous connection between the describing and graphical data on physical facilities, so that each element of the facility may, at any moment, be accessed from both alphanumeric and graphical database.