The first geographic information system (GIS) was developed in Canada in the 1960s. As its name implies, it's a system that takes geographical data and digitizes it into computer information, compiling it into databases and linking them with other computer systems for future use.
1960 年代起源於美加的 GIS，英文全名為「Geographic Information System」，中文稱做「地理資訊系統」；顧名思義，即是將各種事物的地理訊息，數位化成電子資訊，載入並連結各資料庫的電腦系統中以備應用的一套系統。