An immense development of information technologies and of computer science achieved during the last decades has considerably influenced also such human activities as the drawing of forest maps - one of the most important steps in forest management planning. In spite of the fact that the present stand maps constructed using digital methods are maps of atop quality and enable us a very reliable and immediate orientation in the forest environment, the new information technologies promise new remarkable possibilities how to improve them. Aerial digital terrain modelling makes it possible to bring together several types of formerly drawn maps into one single, universal map applicable for several forest management activities. In this context, the specialists consider digital purpose-made (specialised) ortho-photo maps as the most suitable for use in the near future. These maps are very promising for the use in the developing areas that can be called the exact agriculture and the exact ecological forest management.