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