The article deals with the actual issue of arranging the process and the system of cartographic support. The authors generalize production and publication of cartographic products only. Within the framework of issuing, the process of production and publishing cartographic products is considered as functioning of a purposeful cartographic support system. During these studies, the vector of production process quality indicators results and publishing cartographic products is justifi ed. The proposed indicators enable predicting the results of the process under consideration. Based on the vector of quality indicators, the operational functional connecting the performance indicator with the cost of resources and time is justifi ed. The purposeful process’ of producing and publishing cartographic products deterministic model is proposed. With its use the simulation was performed. The results help determining the mapping support system contents based on the tasks set.