Movie Scene Map changelog

Alban asked whether more anime scenes could be found without lowering the standard the map is held to.

There is a game at /guess/ now.

Housekeeping, all of it Alban’s.

Two days ago the entry below this one said reading filming locations out of Wikipedia prose was considered and not done, because a pin here is a statement you can check in one click.

Skyfall knew its year and its places and nothing about the twenty six other films it belongs with.

27% of the filming statements this atlas reads point at a whole country or a state, and 52% of every video game setting does.

Every filming location is now available as GeoJSON and CSV, with a second file for the productions, free and with no account.

Every place that only a video game referenced had vanished from the atlas, with no error anywhere: the code that reads coordinates matched one spelling of the format, the two data services this site queries spell it differently, and whenever the slower one

Until now a game whose setting Wikidata records only as a country was dropped, on the grounds that "set in the United States" answers nothing.

A pinned card used to list twelve productions, which meant the map could tell you that 620 things were shot in New York and then show you twelve of them.

The country pins had no pictures, and the reason turned out to be specific: a country almost never carries a photograph on Wikidata, only a flag, a coat of arms and a locator map.

A video game is filmed nowhere, so Wikidata places it by where its story happens, and sometimes that place does not exist.

dual_sport_dork on Lemmy pointed out that Bollywood was barely on the map, and they were right.

Several people on Lemmy pointed out that Wikipedia articles carry far more detail than Wikidata does, in tidy Filming sections, and they are right.

Every place in Hong Kong was filed under China, because that is the country Wikidata records for them.

The map can now be filtered to films, series or games.

Four different films are called The Three Musketeers and two German towns are called Moosach.

It used to live at flight007.com, which was the wrong address for a film map in a way that only showed up in a search engine: every result for that name is an air disaster.

An interactive map of the places films and television were actually shot, built only from filming location statements on Wikidata, with a page for every production and every place.