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Volunteer data in Wikidata needs interfaces, not research
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The locations of 15,716 movie scenes were already sitting in a free public database that almost nobody ever looked at. Movie Scene Map didn't research any of them. It reads Wikidata, the open database behind Wikipedia, where volunteer editors have been logging where films were shot since it launched in 2012. All the site does is join each of those records to the place's coordinates and a photo from Wikimedia Commons, and suddenly a decade of volunteer labor looks like a finished product built…
heynavtoor@heynavtoorSep 5
GOOGLE MAPS SHOWS YOU STREETS. THIS WEBSITE SHOWS YOU THE MOVIE SCENES FILMED ON THEM. it's called Movie Scene Map → https://t.co/j5BjdTJcbX 15,716 real filming locations. 166 countries. one map. click any pin. see what was filmed there. search any movie. see every place it was shot. Game of Thrones castles in Croatia. Breaking Bad streets in Albuquerque. Lord of the Rings hills in New Zealand. the well from The Dark Knight Rises at Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur. the Woman in Red fountain from The Matrix in Sydney. the best part is how fast your brain starts using it wrong. you open it to search one movie. then you search your city. then your hometown. then the place you went on vacation. built by one anonymous guy who goes by Flightmussy. just a website that lets a normal person see where their favorite movies were actually made. open tab. search your city. see what movies got filmed near you.