Both Maps Mania and The Map Room dissected the various maps of the Zika virus doing the rounds on the media, showing how many of them are misleading and that perhaps the best of all is the animated Zika Health Map of confirmed cases.

“You might find this part nauseates you”- that’s the warning they have to give you during this super fast paced Drone Racing League video (Facebook, via Quartz) the next big spectator sport, supposedly. But is this really shown in real time?

Who needs paint when you’ve got maps? The Map Room featured the amazing art of Matthew Cusick: if you examine closely, you see his beautiful landscapes are actually composed entirely of paper topographic maps.

While we’re on waves, what’s the coolest way to crowdsource ocean data? By surfing of course. The Smartfin can be fitted to any surfboard with detachable fins to monitor sea salinity, acidity levels and wave motion. Springwise caught onto this wave.

Vice’s Motherboard discussed how “spatial computing is the future.” While we may already know that, what is also interesting is the new research into ‘smart routing’ that the article and video explores.

Big Think ran through the Games of Thrones that is the fascinating history of French names over the course of the years. The lengthy article explores how different political influences in different provinces of France led to the popularity of names like Jean, Phillipe and Sébastien.