can have major impacts on communities,
photograph Marques Thomas/Unsplash, as a for instance take Google maps, it has a feature that with no prior agreement people can add local details or points of interest, the “add a missing place” feature on Google Maps seems like a great idea, until someone decides to play a prank, and that is what happened in the Welsh village of Cyffylliog, when a fictitious Aldi store was added to the village, the listing has so far led thousands of people to a grassy field, tens of miles away from the nearest checkout lane, “We’ve had people knocking on doors asking where the Aldi is, delivery vans with groceries trying to find a nonexistent loading dock and even a bloke with a pallet of bread who thought he’d been hired to stock shelves!” one local woman said,
photographs of visitors holding shopping baskets while staring blankly at a sign that reads: “Welcome to Cyffylliog. No Aldi here. Try Denbigh,” and tourists digging for “Aldi treasure”. The locals, however, are not amused, “Now we have an endless stream of day trippers and holidaymakers turning up and looking confused,” a local farmer told reporters, locals have been trying to get the pin removed from Google
Maps for a while, but it was only after Aldi itself became involved that the
miracle actually happened. After news of the milk tanker getting stuck in
Cyffylliog went viral, an Aldi spokesperson confirmed that the company had no
plans of opening a store in the village and that it would be working with
Google to have the listing removed from Maps, “Honestly, if we had a pound for
every car that’s shown up, we could’ve opened our own Aldi by now,” Hughes
joked, it is a good job that people of a mischievous nature do not know
how to manipulate Google Maps, imagine the chaos they could cause to your town!
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