A drone owned by the Canadian Mounties has become the first to save a person’s life (unlike the many others responsible for taking them), after it was deployed to find and treat a man in a remote area after his car crashed. More over at The Verge.

Strange Maps has a map showing a few different communities of apes, where problems are resolved by sex, or by violence. The story is bigger than the map itself, and is worth a read.

LiDAR News has written a post that says that laser scanners are no longer being viewed as luxury items – they are now mandatory for many industries and businesses. The summation is important: “When you from ‘nice to have’ to ‘must have’ that is a game changer.”

Perhaps as an example of the proliferation of the technology, LiDAR News also has a post on a Kickstarter project that aims to create a US$99 laser scanner for use by robot enthusiasts – made from a laser pointer, a web cam, and a Linux computer.

Sean Gille’s has a little post on the ‘format that could’ – GeoJSON – talking about some of its recent victories, and suitability for the web.

Inside GNSS has run a story telling us that the US Government are taking steps to harden infrastructure against GPS disruption. The US alone would not be the only country affected by a disrupted or destroyed GPS signal. What measure does Australia have against the loss of the signal?

Google Maps Mania’s maps of the week include OpenStreetMap’s new online editor, iD, which has the OSM community all aflutter. The blog’s other map of the week is a way to browse the National Library’s collection of ancient maps of Jerusalem.

And, yes, it’s Eurovision time again, and that means that the annual Eurovision map has also been created – only this time it’s by DR dk. Thanks to Google Maps Mania for taking the time to showing us all where to find our geographic melodic fix.