Movie Scene Map: one dev turned 15,716 Wikidata filming locations into a hit site
aakashgupta · x · 2026-09-08
Movie Scene Map lists 15,716 real filming locations across 166 countries — without doing any research itself. All data comes from Wikidata, where volunteers have been logging shooting locations since 2012.
- One anonymous developer, Flightmussy, just built an interface joining Wikidata records with coordinates and Wikimedia Commons photos, making a decade of volunteer labor look like a whole team's work
- The map fixes itself: add a sourced filming location to Wikidata and it appears at the next rebuild — users do the research without touching the site
- A textbook example of one-person product building over free open data
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