Open-data atlas maps 15,565 filming locations, CC0 downloads and an MCP feed

Movie Scene Map is an interactive atlas of 15,565 real-world filming and story-setting locations across 166 countries, tying roughly 9,287 films and series plus 2,153 games, 407 anime, and 365 manga to the actual studios, castles, streets, and landscapes behind them (or, for animated and rendered works, the places their stories are set). Click any pin for a photo and the productions shot there, or open a location page to see everything filmed in it. Coverage skews heavily toward the US and UK, with California and Los Angeles County topping the per-region production counts.

The technically interesting part is the data pipeline. The atlas is assembled entirely from open sources — filming-location statements on Wikidata joined to coordinates, Wikimedia Commons photos, and Wikipedia articles — with nothing scraped from listicles and nothing AI-generated. Weaker evidence (a place named in prose or filed under a setting category) is kept strictly separate from structured Wikidata statements and labeled by source, so users can see whether a pin rests on a claim or a sentence. Because coverage tracks Wikidata, gaps mean sparse data rather than nothing filmed, and anyone can fix an omission upstream by adding a sourced statement that then propagates to every downstream project.

The whole dataset is free to download as GeoJSON or CSV under CC0, with no account, ads, or paywall, and it exposes a read-only MCP endpoint that lets AI assistants query the same data live. That combination — open-licensed geodata plus a machine-queryable interface for LLM tooling — is what makes it more than a novelty for a technical audience.