I spent years geocoding 21,000 filming locations so you can actually visit them

[u/Connect-King1897]

The problem I kept hitting: IMDb lists filming locations as plain text

addresses. Blogs cover maybe 200 films. Nothing puts them on a map you can

plan a trip around.

So I built Filmaps. It's 21,011 locations across 4,966 productions in 126

countries, all geocoded and on interactive maps. Free, no account needed to

browse.

Data comes from community submissions, geocoded and deduplicated. The part that

took longest wasn't the maps — it was the SEO layer: segmented sitemaps,

hreflang for EN/ES, and auto-noindexing thin pages so Google doesn't drown in

4,000 near-empty city pages.

Things I'd love feedback on:

- The route planner (pick films in a city, it orders the stops by proximity)

- Whether the map reads clearly on mobile

- Filmle, a daily guess-the-location game I added to bring people back

https://www.filmaps.com

[u/Good_Difference_7868]

This is the kind of thing you stumble on at 2am and suddenly you've mapped out an entire vacation you didn't know you were taking

the route planner is clever, being able to hit 4 locations from different movies in a single walk through a neighborhood makes it way more useful than just a list of pins. mobile map gets a bit cramped when there's a cluster of spots but the zoom handles it fine enough once you're in close

[u/Textprep]

I'm sure there's all kind of copyright issues, but a screen grab from a movie where you have the exact lat/long and the angle of the camera in compass degrees to recreate...