Use of geographic information systems for creation multimedia and web technologies

This paper presents the significant role in formation of the new direction of cartography is played Web GIS and multimedia technologies. They allow to create the attractive and easily perceived by users interactive cartographical works. The changes which have happened recently connected with informatization of society have led to essential changes in a technique of teaching the corresponding disciplines. These technologies based on the computer equipment demand radical changes in the organization of educational process of the higher school. Development of modern information technologies allows to transfer to the Internet not only any reference information of different types, but also various types of spatial. All this gives the chance of interactive interaction and editing all this array of information.