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- 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.
by daniplanas - 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.
by jimnotgym - 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.
by Flightmussy - Not location based, but movie related: https://www.imcdb.orgby dewey
- 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.by autoexec
- 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.
by PetitPrince - That is a good idea! I have not focused on that yet honestly so it seems a bit randomised at the moment.by Flightmussy
- 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!by ynac
- 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.
by Flightmussy - 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.by hberg
- 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.by Flightmussy
- How can I add more movies and their locations?
EDIT: Apparently here: https://moviescenemap.com/missing/
by roflmaostc - 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;)by Flightmussy
- 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 !by Ldorigo
- 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.
by Flightmussy - 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.
by zamadatix - 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.by Flightmussy
- 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!
by radiorental - 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.by Flightmussy