explore/topics/gis/index.md

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Geographic Information System System to capture, manage and present geographic data. gis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system

A geographic information system (GIS) is a conceptualized framework that provides the ability to capture and analyze spatial and geographic data. GIS applications (or GIS apps) are computer-based tools that allow the user to create interactive queries (user-created searches), store and edit spatial and non-spatial data, analyze spatial information output, and visually share the results of these operations by presenting them as maps.