FROM MULTI-PURPOSE CARTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE TO "SMART MAP"
The article considers the peculiarities of the present state development of cartography, fundamental change of its role and functions in the modern economic society that are caused by revolutionary changes in the field of Informatization. Cartography is considered as the science of systematic informational-cartographic modelling and geosystems cognition. The map appears as a graphic - symbolic geoinformation reality model, it is at the same time a tool of knowledge, a method of analog simulation of reality, and a means of transmitting information in digital form. The article gives the definition of a new cartographic product - a multi- functional cartographic resource, which represents a specialized information cartographic system incorporating the cartographic information, tools to work with it in order to create final information products - maps. The article observes the obvious transition from traditional map to the map interface that is based on a new trend "smart mapping".