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The topic is City Cartography. The main question is, how modern cartography and GIS can help us develop smart cities. The Google technology made cartography clear for everybody on the one hand on the other hand cartography is fading in big services and losing many of its features. Very often we see cartography only in geolocations and geotags in social media. Of course, it’s not completely so. Its potential for smart city is not discovered! What is a map? -The method of reality (риалити) research based on the analysis of space: density, relations, ratings, availability and so on. -The visual image of space that sooner (суна) or later affects people’s actions. The final point is a map as a political act. The slide shows the conflict in Northern Caucasus between Chechnya and Ingushetia, caused by new regional borders. We can see people protest holding a map in their hands. One more case from Moscow. People are protesting against the new subway line. They fear that their houses can go in the ground. Here we can see a map again. The map is more complicated and it indicates the houses at risk. We all know the urbanization trend. It used to be slow in Russia. But now it’s different, and city population is growing. The city needs more housing. The government and business build housing with no real strategy. It badly affects the infrastructure and quality of living. As a result, the city gets extremely polarized and difficult to study. The government don’t know real population figures. For instance, you will never find true reliable numbers for Moscow population. It touches the whole variety of ethnodemographic, social and environmental problems. The statistic problem is one of the biggest issues. The slide shows what we, researches, have to deal with. Each source of information has its drawbacks. For example, population census brings data about the ethnic structure of regions, but it only happens every 10 years. However, Big Data can not prepare well structured demographic matrices for spatial planning of cities.