Abstract: Regarding the problems of various kinds of the catalogue database of national surveying and mapping archives and which lack of the regularity and which have no spatial positional index for traditional reason, in order to improve the management and service efficiency of surveying and mapping archives,through analyzing the characters of the data,choosing test data, normalization processing data, conforming spatial positional index data;using progressive upgrading technical proposal, the work of upgrading and migrating the database of the national surveying and mapping archives catalogues has been realized frequently in the meantime of development of management system of survey and mapping archives, avoid of the bad influence which is the system had been built but the catalogue database had not finished migrating and reforming.

Key words: the database of the national survey and mapping archives catalogues, collection catalogue, regularity, spatial positional index, progressive