GIS is a software that helps us us to work with maps and geographic system and edit them at our convenience. It is an amazing software, that can also help amateurs work with maps. As I was working with ArcGis, I experienced its potentials and pitfalls.

Among the potentials, I would say GIS, helps the editing of the maps very easy and comfortable. the fact that you can make the maps the way you want is highly advantageous. The feature allows us to build our own maps, like building your own roads, highlighting the cities and the characteristics you want and work with them. Also, GIS eliminates most of the calculation required to make the maps. For instance, the calculations required for the scale of the map and calculating the distance between two points are all the done by GIS, thus reducing the work. Along with all the properties, GIS is very user-friendly and makes the work very easy.

Among the pitfalls, I did not experience many. Some drawbacks I saw were that, it sometimes became complicated to use some simple tools like resizing the map and these complexities can distort the maps. Along with it, I believe that GIS accuracies depend on the source data which sometimes could be unreliable.

No matter, how many pitfalls, GIS might have, it is a great system that helps to manipulate maps according to the users will and helps the user understand the science of maps much better.