Electronic Educational Atlas for Schools in Kazakhstan

In the article the methodology of the research which is carried out within scientific project, the analysis of scientific and methodological literature concerning the creation and application of electronic educational atlas on Geography are considered. The content of the electronic educational atlases and the maps of Kazakhstan, and also interface screenshots of the electronic atlas showing functions of navigation on the maps of the atlas, scaling, preview and the printing of maps, export of maps in the graphic editor, saving of maps in the raster file and opening external and additional shape files are presented in the article. In the main part of the article the didactic functions and educational problems are described which a teacher and a pupil can solve using electronic educational atlas in the Kazakh, Russian and English languages. In the concluding part of the article the technology of the creation of electronic atlas is described developed by means of work with spatial data of a library Open Source MapWinGIS ActiveX Map Control and a programming language C# 5.0 in the environment Visual Studio 2013. The created atlas adapted for school education will allow to intensify process of introduction of geo-information technology in the education.