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Nowadays, searching on the Internet is very popular. All kinds of gadgets have become available to people of all ages. It opens up new possibilities for presenting information online. An Internet resource, which is a geo-information base, through web services in an accessible form displays and provides access to geographic information. As applied to the old waterways of the North-West of Russia, this way of presenting information combines multimedia geographic information system (GIS) and traditional types of information resources. It includes original vector maps of the rivers Volkhov, Msta, Tikhvinka, Neva, Lake Ladoga and etc. Raster cartographic materials are represented by both modern and digitized old maps, plans of locks and dams. They are supplemented during field expeditions with modern photographs of objects, as well as information maps of hydraulic engineering monuments. Thus, a convenient tool is being created that creates all conditions for the preservation and presentation of unique documentary monuments of our country's historical, cultural and natural heritage online.