Taking the navigation facilities located along the Yangtze River as an example, this paper analyzes the feasibility and practicability of electronic atlas for waterway facilities in the waterway information management. Starting from the software of electronic atlas making, the paper describes the TeleAtlas software packets and its dominances in application into making the multimedia electronic map. Based on the analysis about the electronic map technologies and the data characters of navigation facilities of the Yangtze River, we probe into some key technologies concerning design of the electronic atlas, including data processing, content designing, checking, and publishing of general design, and model, strategies, and methods in logic design of electronic map. By exploring the application of multimedia electronic map technologies into the electronic waterway map design, we try to find a new mode for the information management of waterway facilities.