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Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga

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Very cool, I've sent a couple of Star Wars fans out to Achill Island off the coast of Kerry as the location for the last Jedi. However due to very small footprint of the island and my zoom level another film was higher in the z-order, blocking out the other film pins, and it looked like there might be missing data.

That all said, it looks like they also filmed closer to my home which I probably would never have known about if not for this service. Nice work, nice design, slick UX and Interaction model. Well done!

https://moviescenemap.com/locations/malin-head/

Thanks! I also did not know that I have passed Star Wars location with train (Finse) before. I live in Norway so got exited to learn that. Usually nothing happens here.

Kick ass, I really love this idea! It can bring a little bit of fun to wherever one travels :). Definitely several scenes I didn't realize I'll have to look out for on my regular work trips!

If I were to put in one feature request I'd say "a way to easily get to a page about the media". E.g. if I go to Cheyenne I see there was a TV show named Jericho and there are buttons/links which take me to pages about where this data came from, all of the locations it was filmed, the place itself on Wikipedia, and so on - but I have to initiate a manual search to find out anything about Jericho.

Or maybe there is a link already and I'm just an idiot :D.

I have only gotten the link to Wikipedia page for the item, but not the place. That should be possible to put in later where there is a button for item and a button for the destination itself.

Oh this is fun! I've done something very similar but for narrative settings (rather than filmed locations) at https://historical-moviemap.inneuro.ai/ and was thinking it would be interesting to extend filmed locations as well... Looks like you got there first !

I started with filmed location, but I thought that I personally would love to view locations for video games and anime.

I am glad that you like it! I do not look at other websites before beginning a project, I just work with ideas which I personally find interesting and hope for the best.

How can I add more movies and their locations?

EDIT: Apparently here: https://moviescenemap.com/missing/

You can also just write it mostly anywhere on the internet! I just scope up all the feedback and try to get it verified so that I can implement it to the site;)

This is neat, but when I looked for some specific filming locations (as opposed to a city-level listing), I didn't find much. Obviously, creating a precise filming location database is an order-of-magnitude harder problem to solve.

Thanks! I am aware of this problem because I have not been able to parse the information well enough. Therefore, some might even be in a country level while it is known that the scene happened in a very specific location.

Nice work - the map UI is smooth and easy, sites are surprisingly accurate for single scenes. Can you partner with another database to really bulk this up? Possibly even grow it a little more with crowd-sourcing with verification. More notes about the scenes within the movie would be handy. Fan notes and threads could be a horrible idea I'd like to see. : ) I could see this being a good resource for scouts, fans, and others. I'd be down to help on this!

Thanks a lot!

I try to rely mostly on Wikipedia because I do not want this project to be associated with an another AI project. What I am doing with my projects are using Wikipedia information to tell a fun story on my interactive maps. Something like a video game, because I am a gamer myself.

I am considering other databases, although I have to learn more about the licensing conditions. I have experience with using some sort of verification system from an another project of mine.

For now I have been just looking for feedback on this project on forums and scooping them up. Usually it is because I have not been parsing Wikipedia well enough.

Then I will attach my feedback about a not well-parsed instance here: https://moviescenemap.com/#title=1942 has 5 locations listed, but of the "narrative locations" on Wikidata, at least Saipan and Midway Atoll seem like they should be on the list as well: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55532

Neat !

It would be interesting to have some filters; I'm mainly interested in genre (more romance is Paris ? more fantasy in Iceland ?), box office earnings (are all blockbusters in Hollywood / Vancouver ?) and review.

That is a good idea! I have not focused on that yet honestly so it seems a bit randomised at the moment.

I once planned a trip to New Orleans around the various locations in the game Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers. I visited spots like St. Louis Cathedral, Cemetery No. 1, Tulane University, Jackson Square, Dumaine Street, Napoleon House, and the New Orleans Police Department. I figured having a website like this would make have made that kind of thing easier, but while the game is listed on the map there doesn't seem to be any specific locations for it.

Not location based, but movie related: https://www.imcdb.org

Great work. I feel like these 'consolidation of the internet into one specialist format' sites are one area where the non-corporate Internet can still flourish.

This is much less niche than my own project!

And there is still room for this to grow. I zoomed in on my home area and it is missing a fairly famous film (with a wikipedia page) that was filmed there.

This comment makes me happy!

I like to be creative, but I also like that people actually want to use my stuff. This has never ever happened before I started creating interactive maps.

There are many missing items. The difficulty is to fill the map without spamming it too much.

Perhaps a heatmap at higher altitudes, when zoomed converts into specific dots?

You should be happy. It is a great way to present things like this. That there are still little parts of the internet where things are not well collected makes me feel so positive that there is still work to do

HI guys! You can also have a look to filmaps.com, the oldest website doing this. More than 20k locations over 8k films Worldwide.

And you can find some nice tools and games too.

It’s not that accurate, for example, it says the movie source code was in ottawa train station, looking at the movie scenes nothing looks like it, looking it up online and it says it was cancelled due to fees issues so it never done there.

Please!!! make it a negative entry, don't just remove it. This is how bad information sticks around. In fact, cancelled filming locations would likely be interesting in their own right (say, WTC in Spiderman, for one)

Fun map. First local landmark I look up is Niers Tavern in Woodhaven, NYC. Famous for the scene in Goodfellas after the heist and a scene in Tower Heist which I have not seen. Good wings, burgers and chicken sandwich.

I'm curious how did you go about accessing the data source for projects liek these? I mean, I have seen quite a lot of interesting builds (even if they are AI-assisted) but I love the results.

Wikipedia as a data source is open to use for everyone which makes this project even possible. Without Wikipedia, I would have to rely on Ai generated results which is not optimal.

Is this from the same person that did Castle Map a few weeks ago? Feels similar

Yes! I have created some interactive maps which are in some ways similar to each other.

I like to have some sort of standardised UI to make the map as useful as possible. If I like features from one of my maps, I will copy that to the other maps wherever it fits. I hope this works:)

Hmm, but can you cross reference? Plenty of castles have been filming locations :)

surprised to see nothing at null island[0]. Good job cleaning your data

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island

This is an exquisitely beautiful project. I'm reminded of the excellent documentary Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) by Thom Andersen. [it's on Hoopla and Kanopy]

Awesome project, the first thing I saw after opening laptop this morning and it made my day. Now I am wondering, how can I contribute to this and add more stuff

Very cool.

Three Nuts for Cinderella lists Moritzburg in Halle and Dresden as filming location, but only Dresden is correct.

How did that happen? Do you derive the information from the english wiki article only?

Nice interface (though the cursor/pins feel very fidgety) to scraped data.

Not very satisfying when you can't compare photos of the location with the on-screen version.

Thanks! I have thought about how to put "compare photos of the location with the on-screen version" on the map. Have not just found out how yet.

Would love to add that because that would have been so cool!

if you add that, it would also be great if you used real frames from each movie for the FilmGuessr game, so that one could guess the location without knowing anything about the film.

I clicked on the dot for Khartoum, the only one in Sudan. It shows the Nile in Egypt, related to a movie that plays (only) in Egypt. A bit disappointing.

This map seems to really skew post-2000, with a few before then sprinkled in.

None of the places I know about made it onto the map, but they're all 1970's.

What's the tooling for this? I've wanted to do a similar map project for a different dataset and this is a slick presentation.

It's tailwind, react, maplibre based on the sources.

I was just thinking about this concept a few days ago.

I built this concept a few weeks ago even - not nearly as good though, I used wiki data plus LLMs for most of the data sourcing and reverse geo coding but the dataset here seems a lot cleaner.

Thank you! I think there are many existing competitors already when it comes to maps for finding movie scenes, so none of us are unique I guess.

I try to do my own thing and hope for the best. I rely both on my own principles and standards + Feedback from the community so that it gets quality tested many many many times.

Villa Gesell as featured on X-Men is wrong.

Escanaba in da Moonlight

Escanaba, Michigan

Is missing!?

just curious how much is this costing

To use the website? The website will always be free to use. That is a promise:)

I'll give a punctuation correction here, for a more professional look. In the pop-up boxes it says "2 more places under this dot, click to see them". That's a common grammar error called a "comma splice", because the second part is a sentence with complete subject and verb. That comma would need to be a semi-colon, as in: "2 more places under this dot; click to see them".

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