The article deals with the problem of creating geographic information systems of area management at the regional level. The modern principles of such systems, allowing creating a common information space for storage and processing arrays of heterogeneous information, effectively distributed among the participants are described. As required principles of arranging territorial administration at the regional level the author indicates distributional and hierarchical method of organizing data, using the most appropriate software, the relationship of regional information systems on the basis of features, interoperability and data sharing. The essential factors in the development of such systems is also responsibility for securing data, crosschecking them, scalable software principle dosed training specialists, conducting registers of facilities management. Implementing these principles enables the connection of new information systems. To improve the quality of management information and analytical the process should be arranged as a whole, at all levels of management for the information to be spread from top to bottom and back without breaks. The analysis is performed on the example of geographic information system of the territory to be developed in Archangel region.