Geographic Information System (GIS) is a system intended to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of geographical data. In the simplest terms, GIS is the merging of cartography, statistical analysis, and database technology.

A GIS can be thought of as a system—it digitally creates and manipulates spatial areas that may be for jurisdictional purpose or application-oriented. Generally, a GIS is custom-designed for an organization. Hence, a GIS developed for an application, jurisdiction, enterprise, or purpose may not be necessarily interoperable or compatible with a GIS that has been developed for some other application, jurisdiction, enterprise, or purpose.

GIS is a relatively broad term, which can refer to a number of technologies and processes, so it is attached to many operations; in engineering, planning, management, transport/logistics and analysis.

Benefits of GIS
GIS benefits organizations of all sizes and in almost every industry. There is a growing interest in and awareness of the economic and strategic value of GIS, in part because of more standards-based technology and greater awareness of the benefits demonstrated by GIS users. The number of GIS enterprise solutions and IT strategies that include GIS are growing rapidly. The benefits of GIS generally fall into five basic categories:


• Cost Saving from great efficiency
The system is used to improve daily fleet activities and maintenance schedules. In implementing the system it may cost great savings in operational expenses, staff time and have an efficient scheduling.


• Improve communication
Visualization and Geographical based maps assist in storytelling and understanding situations. This is used to improve communication between different departments, discipline, organization, professional fields, public and teams.


• Managing Geographically
The system is needed to understand what will happen and what is happening in geographic field.


• Better geographic information Records Keeping
Many organizations have a primary responsibility of maintaining authoritative records about the status and change of geography (geographic accounting). Physical geography examples include forest inventories, biological inventories, environmental measurements, water flows, and a whole host of geographic accountings. GIS provides a strong framework for managing these types of systems with full transaction support and reporting tools. These systems are conceptually similar to other information systems in that they deal with data management and transactions, as well as standardized reporting (e.g., maps) of changing information. However, they are fundamentally different because of the unique data models and hundreds of specialized tools used in supporting GIS applications and workflows.

• Decision making becomes better
GIS is known for go to technology, for it makes better decision about area and location. Making right decision about certain location is hard and critical. Common examples include real estate site selection, route/corridor selection, zoning, planning, conservation, natural resource extraction, etc. People are beginning to realize that making the correct decision about a location is strategic to the success of an organization. That is why GIS is used to help and give an idea to formulate better decision to implement.

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do u any GIS software apart from ARCGIS

Generalyemi:
do u any GIS software apart from ARCGIS

Our program is mainly on ArcGIS, but we are currently working on other applications. When the new program is ready, we would inform you. Thanks.

You can follow this topic on the main and updated thread on https://www.nairaland.com/3827775/world-revolves-around-gis-all
Thanks.

GISNG:

Our program is mainly on ArcGIS, but we are currently working on other applications. When the new program is ready, we would inform you. Thanks.

OK.thank you

Generalyemi:



OK.thank you

You are welcome.
Also, you can still contribute to the corrected thread https://www.nairaland.com/3827775/world-revolves-around-gis-all, for us to know more about the importance of GIS. Thank you.