We can say that digital cartography is a way of representing maps through computer technology, which is achieved through the use of Geographic Information Systems or GIS, which encode and manage geolocated data found in geospatial databases.

Digital cartography also involves statistical applications, design programs and remote sensing using sensors located in space satellites, which consists of nothing more than generating digital maps without the manual intervention of a person, but through the intervention of technologies that update the information contained in these maps by dumping the new data present in the GIS.