Small towns in the series of tourist maps of the North-West region of Russia

Nowadays the cognitive and the predictive function of cartographic products have connected. A technical means of information processing, modern design, marketing in cartography, using of visual models in territorial management provide the opportunities for production of internal tourist maps and atlases, aimed at the development of regions. In the article the characteristics of small towns tourist maps of the North-West of the Russian Federation are examined, the various functional types of human settlements, scale, design and layout of cartographic products are analyzed, the features of the field work during their manufacture are discussed, the specificity of their use by the consumer are considered. Creating a series of tourist maps of small towns located on a managed territory is the simplest and most favorable investment tool in the development of the regional economy.

maps, atlases, tourist maps, cartography, mapping product, the creation of maps, series of maps, functional types of human settlements, maps of the North-West region of Russia, tourist maps, maps of small towns, cartographic samples

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