Geographic Information System is the new area with diversified applications in Civil Engineering, Geosciences, Forestry, Disaster mitigation, Environment and Ecology, Infrastructure planning, Utility mapping, Business, Mobile mapping, Information Technology and in many more fields. Since nearly 80% of the real world data are spatial in nature, GIS Technology has been popularized overwhelmingly. It is not overestimation that GIS will be used in day to day life within next decade. Already developed countries use GIS widely and it will be used in day to day activities in developing countries also in near future.
Reduced cost in hardware and software in GIS made it possible to reach most of the government organizations, research institutions, academic institutions and non governmental organizations. Although lot of data are available in paper format, if they are not collected, stored in a structured way for visualizing the real world, then the data do not serve any purpose. But this bottleneck has been eliminated by using GIS. Mobile mapping is the new area in which dynamic GIS Maps are used in cell phones to find the actual location of a person. Anyone shall find a perosns exact location when the cell phone is integrated with GPS and GIS maps. This will become reality in all parts of world in this decade.