When maps go wrong: from the Great North Run to a phantom Aldi
by Hannah Al-Othman North of England correspondent from Technology | The Guardian on (#6ZW9G)
Erroneously putting map of Sunderland on medals for Tyneside event is latest in long line of cartological mishaps
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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