Yes, the first one is pretty bad, the Apache location is way off.
John Denver also seemed to think that western Virginia and West Virginia are the same thing, clearly WV is bigger than we thought.
Folsom is a California state prison which only houses prisoners convicted of state crimes in California. Nevada is outside the jurisdiction of California courts.
I thought that was what you meant. But then I kind of wondered if every state even had a federal facility, or if once someone was tried somewhere had to stay in state for a federal crime - could not be transferred to another state. Still, very clever.
If you are convicted of a federal crime in a federal court, you can be confined in any federal prison in the country. However, the vast majority of run-of-the-mill crimes such as murder cases are not within the jurisdiction of federal courts. It would be very odd for someone who committed murder in Nevada to be held in a California state prison.
I figured out the right interpretation, but as a Canadian am a bit naive about US Justice. The US has a huge prison population so presumably has accommodations everywhere. To me, a run of the mill crime is shoplifting. Most crimes in Canada are federal; provincial crimes being things like driving offences. I don’t even know if provincial/state and federal facilities are always different buildings.
Clearly I am overthinking things. But maybe so was the mapmaker. It’s a good thing we didn’t drag San Antone into this. 
I’m in GIS, a cartographer and spatial analyst, and no, I don’t have this in my office.
Nowhere does it say he was convicted of murdering the guy in Reno. He could have killed someone in California, too.
That’s what I assume. Shooting a guy just to watch him die isn’t an entry level crime. It’s a pretty good bet that the guy has done some other bad stuff and CA is close enough that some of those crimes could have occurred there.
Hmm … I didn’t know this about Canada.
Federal crimes in the United States are generally very specifically tied to federal laws and federal officials, such as murdering a federal meat inspector or fraud committed through the postal system.
Most crimes, like murder of a person (who isn’t a federal official), are state crimes.
Things like driving offenses are generally state or even local government matters, and many of them aren’t even classified as real crimes, just citable offenses.
A good example of a terrible map is the time that Enbridge pipeline wanted to show how easy it would be to bring tankers into Kitimat BC to load diluted bitumen. People were a tad worried about a maritime disaster, particularly since a BC Ferry, Queen of the North, had recently run smack dab into a large island and sunk.
So the Enbridge map showed a nice clear passage from Kitimat out to the open ocean. Unfortunately, they removed a large number of islands in the map, and the difficult to navigate Douglas Channel miraculously became non-existent.
I’m not sure I understand the premise of that article. I wouldn’t have described those as “terrible maps”. Terrible maps in my mind involve a whole heap of incompetence. Like a cartography “epic fail” list. Most of those were clearly intended as jokes or specifically trying to make a point.
In that category, I once saw a route map from one of the big Middle-Eastern airlines like Emirates or Etihad, that showed Frankfort, Kentucky as one of their destinations. As far as I can tell the person who created that map had no knowledge of world geography and confused Frankfort with Frankfurt, Germany.
Me either. A lot of those were very good/interesting maps.
Maybe the oil men do their banking at Fort Knox, which is near Frankfort, KY.
Apparently, all of those maps originated on a social media page/group/whatever called “Terrible Maps.”
At first I missed the link to the earlier collection:
The earlier and original list doesn’t change my questioning of the premise though. While a number of those jokes or points don’t really interest me, the maps themselves do their job of making them successfully enough. I guess “adequate maps” just doesn’t have the same ring to it. 
It’s Bored Panda. They, IMO, do a better job of compiling interesting thing, but the headlines are always clickbait
The website’s job is basically to produce click bait, although of higher interest than most. Although the name of the website is dubious, presumably they thought it sounded snappier than “really cool maps” (is learning cool?) or “different ways to see the world” or whatever.
Although some of them, especially from the earlier page, genuinely are terrible, in some way (egregious error, egregious pun, etc.).