Movie Scene Map catalogs real-world filming locations for 13,312 titles
A free interactive atlas built from Wikidata links films, TV series, games, anime and manga to the exact places they were shot or set.
What to know
- The map covers 15,535 real filming locations in 166 countries, spanning 9,262 films/series plus 2,153 games, 407 anime and 366 manga.
- Data is sourced from Wikidata filming-location statements, Wikipedia articles/setting categories, and Wikimedia Commons photos rather than scraped from listicles or generated.
- The United States (5,121 places) and United Kingdom (2,021) lead the country rankings; California and Los Angeles County top the most-filmed regions.
- The post reached the Hacker News front page (score 253, 37 comments) and was mirrored by automated Mastodon syndication accounts, but no substantive discussion content is available in the material.
“Movie Scene Map is built from open data. The backbone is the filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to each place's coordinates, its photograph on Wikimedia Commons and its Wikipedia article.”
Movie Scene Map, site description · moviescenemap.com · Aug 31
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What people are saying 10 voices from 1 site · best of 11 · verbatim
- Sep 3
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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
- Sep 2
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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]
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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…
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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.
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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 !
- Sep 1
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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.