Caption: “Electric Dreams”, by Wenjie, Zhang is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Cropped for web.

We now have all the tools to collect sound, temperature, pollution, humidity and a hundred other factors anywhere in the world. But what do you do with it? Danish designer Kasper Fangel Skov addressed the problem through sound:. check out this CityLab article to “hear” the likes of Shanghai, Rio and Geneva.

If you ever played the original Grand Theft Auto, then this is a MUST WATCH. Vojta Paul from the Czech Republic led a team of actors to recreate the gameplay in real life and filmed it all by an incredibly well-flown UAV. Watch it here at the AV Club.

Soon we may be able to tell exactly where you’ve been simply by looking under your shoes. The HERE blog ran a story showing how mapping the unique signature of microbes across cities may soon be assisting crime investigations.

Find out how rich or poor your suburb is at the ID Blog, where they identified the postcode of 2403 to be the poorest area in all of Australia. Find out just where it is.

Last week it was Star Wars, now it’s Lego: Geoawesomeness ran a blog on Brick Street View, which replicates Google’s street view through the eyes of a ten-year-old Lego addict.

Geoconnexion ran a piece on the rediscovery of the ‘the Father of English Geology’ William Smith’s first geological map of England, which set a precedent for geological mapping with its extensiveness and detail. It’s crazy what people could do with paper.

This link may be in German, but you don’t need any language to understand this live, 3D AND interactive flight route map, or as the German’s call it, Der Flugrouten-Radar.

Similarly, this Dutch map that colour-codes every single building in the Netherlands by age will take little explaining to understand. On the other hand, I’m sure it took the team who built it a whole heap of understanding. Keep tabs on the GIT Blog for insights on how they do it.