Mapping for One-Place Studies - a forum

A web mapping service produced by Microsoft (previously Virtual Earth), similar to Google Earth/Maps. As a platform it also allows developers to create applications that layer location-relevant data on top of licensed map imagery.

Most content management systems (CMS) have plugins or extensions that can handle maps - often simply as a link to Google Maps.

In the UK, and many other countries, local authorities use various tools for planning and managing geographical assets - and some of them have made them available to the public to integrate with other data. This is not so much a technology as an approach not may be more relevant in some areas than others.

Google Maps is very popular for route maps, and showing points of interest. Google Earth is similar but with more imagery and control. Both link to Street View. My Maps enables you to customise a map.

Personalized Interactive Mobile Maps

A commercial (free for low volume) mapping platform for developers, whose building blocks make it easy to integrate location into any mobile or online application

Maphub allows you to create interactive maps - similar to Google and Bing Maps but within an Open (and currently free) environment

MapStory is an open platform for organizing our knowledge about how the world changes over time and space

Mapzen is an open, sustainable, and accessible mapping platform, whose "tools let you display, search, and navigate your world"

A free, editable map of the whole world that is being built by volunteers largely from scratch and released with an open-content license. Other tools can use OSM data.

Under this heading we include all ways of mapping not using some sort of GIS - literal paper and pen, using an image editor to add features and text to an image etc

This is the main combination we are exploring in 2016 for general use. It comes from the OSGEO (Open Source) movement and includes GeoServer for sharing geospatial data, PostGIS for storing it, and the desktop QGIS system.