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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Hannah Al-Othman North of England correspondent

When maps go wrong: from the Great North Run to a phantom Aldi

Two men hiking
In 2021 Google Maps updated its routes on Ben Nevis after being warned that existing paths shown were ‘potentially fatal’. Photograph: Peter Lourenco/Getty Images

The organisers of the Great North Run have apologised for using a map of Sunderland, rather than Newcastle, on this year’s finisher medals, but this was just one in a long line of map mistakes.

Other blunders have included phantom supermarkets, dangerously misleading mountaineering routes and geopolitical blunders.

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