Futurism shared this video of the most detailed models to date of our place in supercluster Laniakea– all in all 500 million light-years in size and more than 100,000 galaxies.

Jonathan Row’s Map Room featured the New York music map, an experimental typographical map comprised of all the incredible music that has been born out of the culture rich city. Just click on each band name to learn more.

The authors of Revolution: Mapping the Road to American Independence, spoke to National Geographic about how “cartography always benefits from war … sometimes maps are even the cause of warfare.”

Everyone seems to be predicting virtual reality to take off this year, but can also prove powerful enough to “alter our consciousness”? Big Think provide plenty of reasons in favour of this.

Let NASA run you through the A-Z of aerial imagery, spelling out the alphabet only with geographical features.

The Guardian asked a pretty morbid question this week: Should autonomous vehicles be programmed to choose who they kill when they crash? Find out the fascinating reasons why we should ponder such questions.

I’ve seen plenty of running maps before, but this Star Wars fan on Geoawesomeness went to unprecedented detail to map out Darth Vader, a storm trooper and an AT-AT using only his joggers and a GNSS tracker.

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).