The article discusses the technical design of the boundaries of municipalities in the inhomogeneous geospace. The scientific hypothesis of the work is that the use of technical approximation in the design of municipal boundaries will allow them to be scientifically established locally and increase the level of automation. It is noted that the existing methods of technical design of the boundaries of municipal formations do not allow taking into account the heterogeneity of geospatial data, and the functionality of the software for the preparation of land management documentation has a low level of automation of geometric design. The consequences of this are significant labor costs and the influence of the subjective factor on the design decisions. Nowadays, there is no single approach to perform technical (geometric) design of the boundaries of municipalities in Russia. At the same time, the establishment of the Institute of local self-government in Russia requires reliable and relevant data on the state of the territory and the boundaries of municipalities. To solve this problem, a methodology has been developed, which includes principles, additional requirements, theoretical basis of technical design of municipal boundaries, algorithm and software module for geometric design.

The article discusses the experience of using competence-oriented tasks in the organization of the educational process in the discipline “Metrology, standardization and certification in geodesy and cadastre.” The advantages and problems of the competence-based approach, the need to develop didactic and methodological support, and the importance of competence-oriented tasks in the formation of students’ competencies are noted. From the position of a systematic approach, the activities of students in the framework of competence-oriented tasks are reviewed. As a result, it was revealed that the current level of competence formation depends on the correctness of the comparison of the basic elements (levels) of competencies with the substantive part of the discipline. To solve the problem of choosing competencies for the discipline, an approach has been proposed within which the concepts have been introduced: the indirect and direct influence of the discipline on the formation of competence and the proposed criteria values. Further research in this area may be related to the search for the optimal combination of types of tasks in a complex competence-oriented task.