Methods of assessing cartographic production

The article deals with creating a methodology for assessing cartographic production; the study showed that political, economic, scientific and technical factors make the main influence over its development. The relevance of the research is due to modern requirements for an objective display of production development, the progress and regression of which is evidenced by the change in quantitative indicators over time. The methodology is based on the analysis of the identified quantitative indicators, such as releasing cartographic products (for the entire history of development) and their abrupt changes, defined by the author as its indicators, which enable determining the degree of the factors influence. A weighted point assessment of the impact of the political, economic, scientific and technical determinant on cartographic production in the period under review was obtained; that made it possible to construct and visualize an integrated graphic model in the period from 1705 to the present. To compare the results, an expert approach to evaluation of production is proposed; it is expressed by experts in the rational arrangement of the problem analysis with the quantitative assessment of judgments and processing of their results. An assessment of cartographic production in Russia is carried out based on the developed methodology at all stages of historical development