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

Erroneously putting map of Sunderland on medals for Tyneside event is latest in long line of cartological mishaps

• ‘Newcastle map’ medals actually show Sunderland

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.