A geographic information system (GIS) consists of integrated computer hardware and software that store, manage, analyze, edit, output, and visualize geographic...

A historical geographic information system (also written as historical GIS or HGIS) is a geographic information system that may display, store and analyze...

support the use of a geographic information system, providing the ability to create, store, manage, query, analyze, and visualize geographic data, that is,...

An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, store, and distribute information. From a sociotechnical...

The Canada Geographic Information System (CGIS) was an early geographic information system (GIS) developed for the Government of Canada beginning in the...

geographic location or geographic position). It is also called geospatial data and information,[citation needed] georeferenced data and information,[citation...

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features...

opposed to being a geographic information system tool in and of itself. The field is also sometimes called geographical information science. British geographer...

A geographic coordinate system (GCS) is a spherical or geodetic coordinate system for measuring and communicating positions directly on Earth as latitude...

The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) is a historical GIS project to create and freely disseminate a database incorporating all...