A family traveling from Las Vegas to LA got stranded in the desert after following Google Maps. Along with several other cars, they were led down an off-road trail. They eventually called 911.

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There are many springs in the Mojave Desert, but those that became the mainstays generally had consistent, though sometimes meager flows, and they were usually 10 to 30 miles apart.

The detailed map he prepared gives a remarkably detailed location of Mojave water holes and the miles between them for travelers to use in the years before the railroads first crossed the desert.

And this is a story that went viral a few weeks ago when Basin and Range Watch, a desert environmental advocacy group, tweeted out an image of a map that showed a dot for every one of the over ...

Interactive map of the York Fire in the Mojave Desert. This device is unable to display framed content. Click here to view this embed. Source: Cal Fire, Integrated Reporting of Wildland-Fire ...

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We investigate the curious label “Yarrow Ravine Rattlesnake Area” on Google Maps, located 11 miles from Barstow, CA. Despite ...