In Japan, Hiroshima’s tourism board has created Hiroshima Cat Street View, proving that “truly nothing is im-paw-ssible” (Vox’s words, not mine).

This week, the image of drowned toddler Aylan Kurdi, the emotional footage of thousands of stranded refugees in Hungary and the revelation of a humanitarian crisis in Syria led the media into a frenzy about the prevailing debate topic of accepting refugees. Big Think analysed the refugee map of Europe, which shows Sweden accepted 81,000 refugees over the 201 period. By comparison, Australia, a country with a population double that of Sweden, only accepted a meager 11,970, as dissected by the ID Blog.

Normally we map the world based on its physical features. With the way interconnectivity is heading, maybe we’re now more interested in the distribution and development of the invisible world, that is, our Wi-fi networks. Maps Mania shared how surprisingly we can learn so much about human environments from such maps.

This week saw action on the 68 year decision to restore North America’s highest peak, Mount McKinley, to its name long held by the native Alaskans, Denali. What’s in a name? It may be a lot more than you think, as was shown by Earth Imaging Journal.

Digital maps allow us to navigate our surroundings with more accuracy than ever before. However, entrepreneur Erez Cohen thinks our maps are still “terrible at telling us what’s happening in these places, much less how to make sense of it.”Ozy will tell you what Cohen plans to do about it.

The Tomnod blog shared how crowdsourcing the analysis of satellite imagery has led to the detection of illegal fishing operations in the Cocos Islands, and beyond.

Star Wars and drones feature quite heavily on Best of the Blogs, so a Millennium Falcon that doubles as a drone simply has to get a big mention. Gizmodo gives you the close-up and multi-angle scoop of this “global unboxing” phenomenon of the Falcon and also the X-wing.