Tools & Platforms


  • 7Scene – mobile/location based storytelling platform
  • Historypin – tool for integrating and viewing historical photos on a modern landscape/map
  • WhatWasThere – tool for integrating and viewing historical photos on a modern landscape/map

Mapping & Digital Geography Platforms and Tools

  • Ushahidi – platform for information collection, visualization, and interactive mapping
  • Crowdmap – hosted (free) version of the Ushahidi platform
  • Leaflet – a modern open source JavaScript Library for Interactive Maps
  • MapBox – tool for designing, creating, hosting, and sharing custom maps
  • Modest Maps – a BSD-licensed display and interaction library for tile-based maps in Flash (ActionScript 2.0 and ActionScript 3.0) and Python.
  • GeoCommons – web-based mapping platform
  • Cloudmade – range of tools and APIs that let you create unique location based applications across all major web and mobile platforms
  • Open Street Maps – collaborative mapping tool
  • Timemap – Javascript library to help use a SIMILE timeline with online maps including Google, OpenLayers, and Bing.
  • CartoDB – cloud-based (both pay and free accounts) to create maps, analayze geographic data, and create map-based applications
  • Unfolding – a Processing/Java library to create interactive thematic maps and geovisualizations.
  • Cartagen: a vector-based, client-side framework for rendering maps in native HTML 5. Written in JavaScript, it uses the new Canvas element to load mapping data from various sources, including OpenStreetMap.
  • HistoryVis: web-based authoring tool to create timeline/map mashups
  • Kartograph – framework for building interactive map applications without Google Maps or any other mapping service.
  • TileDrawer: tool to let anyone run their own OpenStreetMap server in the cloud with one-step configuration and zero administration

Mobile Development Frameworks and Platforms

  • MoSync – open source SDK for universal mobile application development
  • Appcelerator Titanium – Android and iOS development platform which leverages web technologies (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript)
  • Safire – iPhone web application framework
  • xui.js – dom library for authoring html5 mobile web applications
  • Phonegap – Open source mobile application framework that uses web technologies (supports iOS, Android, Palm, Blackberry, and Symbian)
  • jQTouch – A JQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, Android, iPod Touch, and other forward-thinking device
  • iPhone Universal – CSS3 framework for iPhone application development
  • iUi – User Interface Framework for WebApp development on iPhone-class devices
  • Rhomobile – cross platform native mobile application framework
  • jQuery Mobile – mobile UI framework using jQuery
  • Sencha – Mobile JavaScript framework for developping HTML5 web apps.
  • OpenPlug Studio –  free cross-platform application development tool for mobile devices
  • Android App Inventor – user friendly tool for building Android apps
  • GameSalad – simple mobile game creation tool