The Rachel Maddow Show   |  January 31, 2013

Maps will get you there, except when they don't

Rachel Maddow notes that while map technology may have improved, GPS is not infallible.

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>>> we love maps. maps tell us important things like for example what parts of the country like which pro football teams according to facebook? people still like the cowboys. weird. we also love electoral maps. we just spent one solid year looking at them not change very much every single day. thanks, nate silver . on the road i still enjoy that old scrunched up road map all crumpled in the little side pocket thingy inside the driver's door. or maybe you've got a gps, which can tell you exact liu where you need to go and how to get there each step of the way. thavg is cheating. but it is way accurate. unless your gps does not work and you wind up here unexpectedly. or hey, if things go really wrong, you wind up here, grounded in your 224-foot-long u.s. navy minesweeper on an environmentally significant coral reef in the philippines. turns out there's something way geekier and amazing about that story beyond just how that navy minesweeper got stuck on that reef in the first place. that is straight ahead . actually, if you keep left at the commercial and then you take the cloverleaf at the e block, then it's straight ahead . if