The tech ginat apologized to drivers over a Google Maps detour that sent them through the Mojave Desert. (Photographer: Marlena Sloss/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images) ...

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 ...

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.

In a recent statement, Google spokesperson Genevieve Park explains that Google Maps has already been updated to no longer "route drivers traveling between Las Vegas and Los Angeles down these ...

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.

In the video, Easler posted that the suggested route had her driving "straight into the desert with no road." "Going like 2 mph bc our cars are being destroyed," she wrote.