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Glossary definition(s) for: geographic information system
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n., (GIS) A computer-based system consisting of hardware, software, geographic information, procedures and personnel designed to facilitate the efficient capture, storage, maintenance, manipulation, analysis, querying and display of spatially-referenced (geospatial) data from a wide variety of data sources in a wide variety of data formats—such as maps, graphs, photographs, remotely sensed data, tabular data and text—providing an automated link between the geospatial (locational) data and the descriptive (attribute) data, usually in relation to a system of coordinates (latitude, longitude, elevation or depth, etc.).
Dictionary definition(s) for: geographic information system
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n., (GIS) A computer-based system consisting of hardware, software, geographic information, procedures and personnel designed to facilitate the efficient capture, storage, maintenance, manipulation, analysis, querying and display of spatially-referenced (geospatial) data from a wide variety of data sources in a wide variety of data formats—such as maps, graphs, photographs, remotely sensed data, tabular data and text—providing an automated link between the geospatial (locational) data and the descriptive (attribute) data, usually in relation to a system of coordinates (latitude, longitude, elevation or depth, etc.).
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n., A digital mapping used for exploration, demographics, dispatching and tracking.
[ General Dictionaries - The Computer Glossary: The Complete Illustrated Dictionary ]
Freedman, Alan. The Computer Glossary: The Complete Illustrated Dictionary. 8th ed. New York: American Management Association, 1998.
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