The development of electronic technology brings the advent of electronic tacheometer which measures, stores and records automatically angles and distances. Electronic tacheometer is the surveying equipment that enable the acquisition of the 3-D terrain information, construction of the database and automatic drafting of the cartographic map. This paper aims at studying the system which can produce automatically the digital cartographic map by us-ing the electronic tacheometer. For this study, cartographic maps of a region are produced by a plane table and an electronic tacheometer and these is analysed. The results of this study show that digital cartographic map by electronic tacheometer is much more accurate and efficient than cartographic map by plane table.