Maps Mania shared the University of Queensland’s new crocodile tracking and mapping service so you can finally find whereabouts you might encounter a crocodile in far north Queensland... Everywhere. The answer is everywhere (above shows the movement of just one croc).

When a hugely complicated international crisis such as the refugee situation in Europe occurs, sometimes maps are the only way to separate hysteria from reality. The Here blog is here to show you the situation with their collection of five maps.

Vox showed what first looks like an ancient map but is in fact an illustration of the evolution of literature, with different areas represented as nations, compete with capitals, outlying towns and adjoining seas.

Similarly, Maps Mania shared a map showing the origin of 3.5 million digitised books the books across the world.

The ManyCities map allows you to explore the spatial patterns of mobile phone activity in London, New York, Hong Kong and Los Angeles, as shared by Geoawesomeness.

If you can’t see yourself travelling to Moscow anytime soon, why not do the next best things and listen to the sounds of the city of 12 million by playing around with Map Mania’s featured webmap.

The Red Bull blog chatted to the crazed adventurer who took on the challenge of mapping the highest trail on Earth, including a total ascent of 150,000m across the Himalayas – the equivalent of reaching the summit of Mount Everest 17 times.

VIDEO: Meet, Ikeda, the electronic composer and artist who has created “a map made of math” by combining pseudo-random functions and visualisations of sound, materials and physical phenomena. Confused? Just watch this incredible video on MapZen.