Abstract: Students majoring in surveying and mapping engineering trained in application-oriented undergraduate colleges are required to have strong practical ability, while the traditional surveying and mapping experimental teaching mode limits the cultivation of students' practical ability from the aspects of equipment quantity, personnel and instrument safety, experimental convenience, etc. By comparing the advantages and disadvantages of traditional surveying and mapping engineering practice teaching mode and virtual simulation practice teaching, this paper puts forward that surveying and mapping practice teaching adopts the mode of combination of virtual and real, so as to effectively promote the transformation and development of local application-oriented undergraduate colleges.

Key words: Virtual simulation technology, Teaching model, Surveying and mapping engineering, Application-oriented undergraduate colleges