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What Is GIS?
This question is often posed to GIS Professionals, and we often have a hard time answering it in a satisfactory way.
We often end up saying "It's computerized mapping", or "It's a combination of computerized mapping and databases", or something along those lines.
Here are a few pages that attempt to define GIS in a more thorough way: