Increasingly geospatial data and mapping applications are being made available via the world wide web.
Do leta 1980 so v M & S Computing (kasneje Intergraph) skupaj z BentleySystem Incorporated za platformo CAD, Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), CARIS ("Computer Aided Resource Information System") in ERDAS ("Earth Resource Data Analysis System"), razvili komercialno programsko opremo GIS, ki je vsebovala številne funkcije CGIS-a in kjer so bili ločeni prostorski in atributni podatki.