A digital GIS mapping is a progressive means of creating digital mapping through GIS or Geographical Information System. Using this system, a person is able to capture and analyze geographical information and store this information in a secured location that can be used as reference in future researches. A digital GIS mapping method is done using an application for digital mapping whose features entail aerial photography, land surveying, remote sensing and mathematics.
Technically, GIS is an information system that can be used to obtain geographical information that have been computed and analyzed from digital contour maps. GIS is also a useful application where researchers store, share and display the information that they have gathered. Important uses of digital contour maps and information obtained from digital GIS mapping are scientific investigations, geographical analyses and archiving, environmental assessments and urban planning.
An application that even common users have access to that uses digital GIS mapping is called web mapping. Web mapping is a method of designing and generating digital maps in the internet and a well-known example of a web mapping software is called Google Maps. Nowadays, digital GIS mapping is embedded in web-mapping, such as Google Maps, which enables common users to add markers to their locations in a digital map and share it to other people through the internet.