GIS Day is November 20, 2002 and is part of the Geography Awareness Week (November 18 - 22, 2002).

The National Geographic Society has sponsored Geography Awareness Week, founded in 1987, to promote geographic literacy in schools, communities, and organizations, with a focus on the education of children.

Geography is a science that enables us to find answers to questions about the world around us, about where things are and how and why they got there.