What is the difference between gis and cartography

and GIS. Cartography and Geographic Information Society questions Page 2. Cartography or Map Making? Is there a difference between the two words? In general, a distinction can be made between analyses (spatial or not) and more trivial processing tasks like updating and simple error removal. • Data output. 9 Jan On one hand, the cartographic programs may lack some functions for modeling, storage and management of the interconnected data. On the other.