The article discusses the development of an innovation educational game "Digital Earth" for University students, describes the main stages of its scenario and types of exercises.

Modern world cannot be imagined without mobile devices, so much attention is paid to research related to the influence of these devices on the perception of information by the user. This article is devoted to the consideration of the features of perception of cartographic images on mobile devices using the means of transmitting geospatial information used in maps. The article considers the classification of types of perception, on the basis of which a study was conducted on their correlation with the means used to display the cartographic image. Since modern mobile technologies make it possible to obtain cartographic information with the help of visual, audio, tactile perception, and also provide the possibility to teel space, movement and time, the map in conjunction with these types of perception becomes more intuitive. Modern means of transmitting geospatial information affect various analyzers, which contributes to improving the quality of transmission of user-perceptible information when reading a map. This allows us to speale about the expansion of the functions of cartographic images when displaying them on mobile devices.

The article is devoted to the consideration of the features of the perception of cartographic images and geospatial information on traditional maps and mobile devices. Cartographic visualization can be considered as interactive construction of virtual (static, dynamic) cartographic images and their perception. The main properties of perception include: objectivity, integrity, structurality, meaningfulness, constancy, apperception, activity. Some other properties of perception are distinguished as sequence, memorability, correlation, reaction to movement. The article analyzes and generalizes the properties of perception. The study of the properties of perception from the position of visual perception of these properties on traditional maps and mobile devices. The same properties of perception of cartographic image and geospatial information on maps and mobile devices reveal themselves differently. This must be taken into account when developing cartographic applications in order to better adapt them to the specifics of user perception.

The growth of information technology has led to a significant expansion of the possibilities for storing, processing and presenting spatial data. This gave a new round of development to such a direction of cartography and geoinformatics as geovisualization. Interactivity and dynamics have become the main distinguishing features of modern maps, especially in the field of cartographic design, which now extend to the problems of human-computer interaction to ensure more successful analysis of geodata and the development of spatial solutions. The article examines the existing definitions of geovisualization and proposes its own version. The scheme and features of individual stages of geovisualization creation are considered. Typical tasks that need to be solved to create high-quality visualization of spatial data are formulated and their systematization is performed. On the basis of the mentioned above tasks and their specificity, the most promising areas of research in the field of geovisualization were identified.