This map above shows the results from the West Virginia Slaw Mapping Project that analyzed and documented the different ways "Hot Dog Joints" (HDJs) serve their hot dogs:

While the vast majority of West Virginians prefer hot dogs topped with coleslaw, it is not a standard topping at hot dog joints everywhere in West Virginia. The food culture of our state is diverse and influenced by many factors such as predominate elasticities and a melding with cultures of surrounding states. This mapping project attempts to document this diversity.

All of the counties shaded in light green have been verified to have HDJs that include slaw as a topping on a hot dog with "everything". Light beige indicate counties where HDJs usually offer slaw, but usually by request only. In dark beige counties you can usually get slaw, but some HDJs may not offer it. Orange indicates counties where slaw is almost never available in mainstream HDJs. Finally, in those counties shaded red, slaw is unheard of.

There's also a super handy cross-section of a West Virgina hot dog:

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The Triumph of Bullshit did some crazy map mashups:

This map of the map of number of residents per Waffle House laid over the map of America’s racist belt laid over the map of 1860 cotton production laid over the map of 2008 election results clearly proves that either Waffle House is ground zero for racism in America, or people like making shit up to gullible people. Don’t even make me plot Walmart store locations, people.

Webapp Gentrify "helps the elite urban bourgeois find their natural habitats." Mashing up Craigslist apartment listings with checkboxes under the heading "What do you care about?" to display "amenities" such as creperies, yoga, wine bars, gluten-free, live/raw food, and of course, vegan restaurants.