Make culturally significant places approachable through an intuitive mobile map.
Custom mobile place-name atlases
Your places. Your language. A mobile atlas built for your community.
Continua designs and develops complete mobile place-name platforms that help communities explore traditional places, hear their names, contribute knowledge, and build familiarity over time.
Built for Bristol Bay Native Corporation
A full mobile atlas designed to travel.
Continua developed the BBNC Place Names app as a mobile companion to Bristol Bay Native Corporation’s existing online atlas. The app brings the map into a purpose-built mobile experience and adds new ways to learn, participate, and contribute.
Explore traditional place names on a mobile map
Listen and become familiar with names through study tools
Suggest place names for consideration
Include GPS location and audio with community submissions
A look at the BBNC Place Names mobile companion experience.
A proven custom solution
Built from the ground up for mobile use.
The BBNC Place Names app demonstrates how an established collection of place-based knowledge can become a rich mobile platform. Continua built the mobile experience, including map exploration, language audio, structured community submissions, GPS capture, and tools that help users study and remember traditional place names.
Visit BBNC’s online atlas ↗Connect written place names with language audio and pronunciation.
Give community members a structured way to suggest additions with location and audio context.
Use study-oriented features to build recognition and familiarity with traditional names.
For tribes, Native organizations, and cultural programs
We can build a place-name atlas for your community.
Every project can be shaped around your community’s language, places, cultural protocols, existing maps, contribution and review process, and learning goals. The result is not an off-the-shelf template—it is a custom platform built with your organization.
Mobile companions
Extend an existing web atlas into an accessible phone and tablet experience.
Community input
Create respectful submission and review workflows for suggested knowledge.
Audio + location
Connect names with pronunciation, stories, media, and geographic context.
Learning tools
Help learners study, recognize, and remember traditional place names.
Let’s build your community’s atlas.
Whether you already have an online map or are beginning with a collection of names, recordings, and locations, Continua can help turn those resources into a useful, respectful mobile experience.
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