If the new Force Awakens movie has left you craving to explore the Star Wars galaxy, try out the Star Wars version of Google Streetview. Maps Mania found the map in which you can see the galaxy through the eyes of either a rebel fighter or a stormtrooper.

Now that Christmas has passed why don’t you learn Sanata Clause’s many other identities. This webmap from ArcGIS shows that across the world Santa has at least 30 different names, like Ded Moroz (Russia), Sinterklaaz (the Netherlands) and Kanakaloka (Hawaii).

Whether or not you were one of the thousands (or millions?) of people who received a drone for Christmas, you have to see what Intel have managed to do with a symphony orchestra, 100 drones and some very clever programming (via UAV Experts).

Over the break, our favourite blogs posted the top lists, so it’s a perfect opportunity to look back on what a huge year 2016 was for spatial technologies.

Maps Mania published their top 10 posts, which you can be safe to assume is the list of the internet’s best in web mapping last year.

Curators of some of the world’s strangest maps, Big Think, published their 16 strangest maps of ’16.

Geohipster featured 13 maps in 13 days– each post revealing insights from frontrunners of digital mapping who were interviewed about some of their best work.

And of course, our own top 8 – the best of the Best of the Blogs 2015.