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Posted by Flightmussy 12 hours ago

Movie Scene Map – 13,312 films, series, games, anime and manga(moviescenemap.com)
185 points | 30 comments
zamadatix 11 hours ago|
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.

Flightmussy 10 hours ago|
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.
radiorental 11 hours ago||
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/

Flightmussy 11 hours ago|
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.
roflmaostc 10 hours ago||
How can I add more movies and their locations?

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

Flightmussy 10 hours ago|
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;)
ynac 11 hours ago||
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!
Flightmussy 11 hours ago|
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.

yorwba 10 hours ago||
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
jimnotgym 6 hours ago||
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.

hberg 11 hours ago||
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.
Flightmussy 11 hours ago|
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.
jkahrs595 1 hour ago||
Escanaba in da Moonlight

Escanaba, Michigan

Is missing!?

MisterTea 11 hours ago||
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.
steinwinde 10 hours ago||
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.
xnx 11 hours ago|
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.

Flightmussy 10 hours ago|
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!

1e1a 3 minutes ago||
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.
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