"Earlier this year the Welsh village of Cyffylliog in Denbighshire was beset by an unexpected stream of traffic after an Aldi supermarket appeared on a map. The name of a farm just below the village, home to about 500 people, was changed on Google Maps to the name of the supermarket, leading to an influx of people attempting to do a weekly shop, and a milk tanker getting stuck. Google said it worked around the clock to identify suspicious behaviour, and corrected the listing."
"The map, which showed countries that could not be drawn to play each other for political reasons, did not include the region that has been occupied by Russia since 2014 but is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine. We fully understand the delicate sensitivity of this matter and while the incident was unintentional, we sincerely regret any concern it may have caused, the association said in a letter to the Ukrainian Association of Football (UAF) general secretary, Igor Gryshchenko."
Organisers of the Great North Run apologised for using a map of Sunderland rather than Newcastle on finisher medals. The medal error echoed other mapping mistakes, including phantom businesses, misleading mountaineering routes and geopolitical omissions. In Denbighshire, Google Maps mislabelled a farm as an Aldi, causing unexpected traffic and a milk tanker to get stuck; Google corrected the listing after identifying suspicious behaviour. Fifa apologised for omitting Crimea from a political-restriction map, acknowledging sensitivity and expressing regret. Google updated driving directions on Ben Nevis after warnings that the shown route could lead walkers onto steep, rocky, hazardous ground.
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