A geographic information system ‎(‎GIS‎)‎ is a system designed to capture‎,‎ store‎,‎ manipulate‎,‎ analyze‎,‎ manage‎,‎ and present all types of spatial or geographical data‎.‎ The acronym GIS is sometimes used for geographical information science or geospatial information studies to refer to the academic discipline or career of working with 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 a general sense‎,‎ 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.‎