Abstract
The author examines the development of theoretical thought in cartography over the past 50 years. The following principal concepts are compared: cognitive, communicative, cartology, metacartography, and map language. Their differences in the interpretation of the subject of cartography, the essence of a map, cartographic generalization, and the relationships between cartography and other sciences are indicated. The argument is advanced that there is a convergence of these concepts and that an integrated geoinformation concept is taking form in modern cartography. Translated by Edward Torrey, Alexandria, VA 22308 from: Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, seriya geograficheskaya, No. 4, 1993, pp. 43-50.
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