Geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or Geographic data. The acronym GIS is refer to the academic discipline that studies Geographic information systems and is a large domain within the broader academic discipline of geoinformatics.What goes beyond a GIS is a spatial data infrastructure, a concept that has no such restrictive boundaries. In general, the term describes any information system that integrates stores, edits, analyzes, shares, and displays Geographic information. 

GIS applications are tools that allow users to create interactive queries (user-created searches), analyze spatial information, edit data in maps, and present the results of all these operations. Geographic information science is the science underlying Geographic concepts, applications, and systems.GIS can refer to a number of different technologies, processes, and methods. It is attached to many operations and has many applications related to engineering, planning, management, transport/logistics, insurance, telecommunications, and business.