Revisit Film Scenes with Google Maps

Allen Fuqua has been travelling around the world recreating scenes from popular films. The photographs of these scene recreations can be found on his website Movie Mimic.

Movie Mimic shows Allen's photographs of locations used in films next to a still of the same scene from the actual film. Each photo is accompanied by a small Google Map that shows the location where the scene was shot.

There is also a Picassa Web Album Google Map of all the Movie Mimic photographs located on one map of the world.

Google Map Showing 100 Years of Cinema

100 Years of Set Locations

Do you ever wonder what films have been shot in your neighborhood? Well, with BoxOfficeQuant's new Google Map you can find all the movies that have been shot on location near your home.

The map displays the top 2,000 films from 1910-2010 according to IMDB. The location of sets used in each film was also obtained from IMDB. In total the map shows 9,736 locations from the 2,000 films.

The map uses Google Fusion Tables. It is a shame that BoxOfficeQuant didn't add the heat map option provided by Fusion Tables as it would be quite interesting to view the world's hot-spots for movie sets.

BoxOfficeQuant were even kind enough to respond to my wish to view a heat map of the locations used in the films.

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Follow Bollywood Stars with Google Maps

Bollywood Fans Tweets Map

Some of the biggest film stars currently using Twitter are Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan and Priyanka Chopra. Thanks to Mibazaar you can now follow all the latest Tweets about these three Bollywood stars in real-time and on Google Maps.

The Bollywood Fans Tweets Map shows the latest Twitter messages posted about Bachchan, Khan and Chopra. You can select either of the three stars and then the map will animate through the latest messages about them in real-time. You can even choose which region of the world you wish to view the fan Tweets for.

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The Easy Rider Route on Google Maps

Mr Zip66's Easy Rider Map

Denis Hopper's Easy Rider is to many the seminal counter-culture movie of the 1960's. Some of us may never get the chance to ride a bike across the States but thanks to Mr Zip we can follow the route on Google Maps.

Mr Zip has pieced together the locations used in the film and managed to put together a rough approximation of the route. The map itself is simple enough, showing the route in blue, with a few map markers showing the locations of some of the main scenes.

However what makes this an essential destination for fans of the film is the accompanying photographs and Mr Zip's knowledgeable commentary of what you can see and do if you are lucky enough to be able to undertake the trip yourself.

Hat-tip: microformats.dk

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Google Map of London Film Locations

Film London Movie Map

Brief Encounters, Notting Hill, Chariots of Fire, The Omen and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade are just some of the films that have been shot (at least partly) in London. Film London have produced this Google Map to help visitors to the city visit the locations in real life.

It is possible to search the map by film genre, from romantic flicks to action-packed movies or period dramas or just explore by viewing different parts of London. Film London say that the map will be kept up-to-date and more information and further layers will be added over time.

Via: Mapperz


The Film Crawl

Of course after trotting around all these famous locations you will want to avail yourself of a pint or two. This Google My Map can help you grab a pint and visit a film location at the same time.

The map shows the locations of pubs that have been used in movies. Some of the pubs in this map have featured in films such as Lock Stock and Two Shooting Barrels and the cult classic Withnail and I.

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Find a Make-Out Spot with Google Maps

Valentine's Day Make Out Spots

OK, so you've bought the Valentine's Day card, the expensive chocolates and you've booked the perfect romantic restaurant, but have you considered the all important make-out spot?

If not romantic comedy film 'Valentine's Day' can help you. The promotional website for the film has created this handy Google Maps mashup that can find the perfect make-out spots in your city. To find the best place to lock lips with your valentine, just enter your location and find suggested make-out locations from other like minded romantic souls.

If you don't mind being disturbed by hordes of other lovers during your most intensely romantic moments you can even add your own favourite make-out location to the map.

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Lord of the Rings Maps

Map of Middle Earth in New Zealand

This Spanish website has been busy mapping the locations used in The Lord of the Rings films shot in New Zealand.

The site has embedded a Google My Map of all the locations they have discovered. They have also included a brief round-up of each location, giving the lat/long coordinates and a description of how to access the location (in Spanish).


Also See

Google Sightseeing discovered this nice Street View of Mount Doom from The Lord of the Rings.



Lord of the Rings Middle Earth Map - A map of Middle Earth using the Google Maps API
Lord of the Rings: Middle Earth Map - Another Middle Earth map imported into Google Maps
LOTRO Lord of the Rings MapTool - Map of a MMORPG game of Lord of the Rings, allows you to view POI's, areas, monsters etc.
LOTRO Game Map of Lord of the Rings - Another map of the MMORPG game of Lord of the Rings

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Awesome NY Times Video Rental Maps

A Peek Into Netflix Queues

The New York Times have created a number of interactive Google Maps to examine Netflix rental patterns, neighborhood by neighborhood, in a dozen cities. For the maps Netflix provided data on the top 50 rentals in 2009 by zip code.

The maps let you see at a glance which movies (and TV series) were popular in which neighborhoods in twelve American cities. For example, Mad Men, Disc 1, Series 1, seemed to be very popular in central New York but was hardly rented in the rest of New York. By contrast Obsessed proved popular in the suburbs but seemed to leave central New Yorkers cold.

It is possible to view the video rental data for twelve US cities. Each city can be viewed on a large Google Map and for each city the other eleven cities are shown with smaller thumbnail maps in the sidebar. The thumbnail maps also show heat maps for the same rentals viewed on the main map.

So, for example, whilst viewing the data for Obsessed in New York you can see at a glance that the film was also popular in Washington and Chicago but not in Seattle and Minneapolis.

Via: @geoparadigm

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Canadian Cinemas Google Map

Canadian Movie Theater Cyberatlas

This Google Maps mashup displays all Canadian movie theaters and drive-ins. The database was compiled by the developers from different sources including the Canada Film Year Book and Cinemaclock.com. There is also the facility for users to add new cinemas to the map.

I particularly like the way the map developers have used different sized map markers to represent different sized cinemas. The bigger the marker the more screens in the cinema. The developers, by the way, are Daniel Naud, Sébastien Caquard and Victor Périchon, who created the map whilst studying at the Université de Montréal and Carleton University.

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A Map With a License to Kill

007 Bond Global Missions

This Google Earth plug-in map has been produced in order to help promote the release of the Quantum of Solace film on DVD. One of the features of the Bond movies has always been the wonderful use of worldwide locations and this map lets you explore those locations on Google Earth whilst watching video clips from the actual Bond films.

Each location comes with a brief description of the action from the relevant film illustrated with photographs and in many cases with video clips from the actual film.

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Film Locations on Google Maps

QuoVadis Live!

QuoVadis Live! allows anyone to map events and tours. The resulting maps include nearby hotels and Panoramio photos.

As well as mapping music and sports events and tours QuoVadis can also be used to show the locations used in feature films. The Filming Locations category allows users to map movie locations, attaching any relevant clips from YouTube.

This example is a map showing the locations of John Borman's 1981 movie Excalibur.

Filmaps

Filmaps is a new film locations website that also uses Google Maps to show the locations of movies. Filmaps want to help movie fans find the locations in their favourite movies.

It is possible to search Filmaps for a particular film or it is possible to search a location to see which film was made there. For example, a search for the Eiffel Tower reveals that four films in the Filmaps database have used the famous landmark as a location.

Each film has its own Google Map. When you are browsing a film's locations it is very easy to add another location if you know of one that hasn't already been added. To do so you just press the 'add a location button' and complete a very short form.

Meipi
Meipi have a Cinemadrid map that includes a number of locations from films shot in the Spanish capital. There are a lot of locations from Almodóvar's films on this map. Clicking on a film will load a YouTube clip of the relevant scene.

Previously Featured

Movie Landmarks:

Brian Lane's MovieLandmarks.com is a "location-based movie landmark search engine". Location and media data are added by users and the resulting data is then mashed up for all to explore! For an example check out this Blues Brothers landmark.

New York in the Movies
A New York movie map, described as "..Your guide to filming locations in one of the greatest cities in the world. Featuring locations for 132 scenes from 72 different movies and television shows, and growing."

For more TV & Movie maps search under media in the Google Maps Mania Directory.

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Google Maps Mania links for 2007-10-22

Mappery is mashup of maps!

Cartography is experiencing an interesting transformation. Map mashups are bringing information from across the web alive to create maps that never existed. As this is happening there are still thousands of maps that contain visual points of interest on flat display maps. Until every map exists as a My Map or Google Maps mashup Mappery will help you find PDFs, images or other flat maps from around the web. It's an interesting "mashup of maps" that bridges the gap between online maps of yesterday with a mapping interface of today. Be sure to check out this recent post from the Mappery blog to learn about the US coverage this international mashup features.

Google Map of Movie Landmarks:

Brian Lane's MovieLandmarks.com joins the list of Movie Mashups by aiming to "build a location-based movie landmark search engine". Location and media data are added by users and the resulting data is then mashed up for all to explore! For an example check out this Blues Brothers landmark. Check out more about Brian's aspirations for the mashup/site here..

• International Cricket Mashup: Hit for Six - Reto Meier is along with his latest Google Mashup Editor effort just in time for the start of the international cricket season in Asia and Australia. There's a live scores map, a upcoming fixtures map, and an interactive map of every international cricket venue around the world. Check out Reto's blog post about this to learn more..
• Spanish language Lord of the Rings Middle Earth Map (with Google Maps interface)
• PublicBar - Start a forum discussion from a Google Map. Traffic + User registration is required to make this site valuable.

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6 new US Google Maps mashups: Movies, housing, food, health, moods

Google Maps Movie Mashups: ThreeMovieBuffs.com - Scott Nash has created a new movie mashup that maps movie theater locations and movie listings for each theater, anywhere in the US. Filter by movie so you can see just those theaters showing a particular movie. Check out this example for the 10010 zip code in New York. More info on this added feature to Scott's site here..
New York in the Movies - Scott has also created a New York movie map which he describes in the following way: "..Your guide to filming locations in one of the greatest cities in the world. Featuring locations for 132 scenes from 72 different movies and television shows, and growing."
More Google Maps Movie Mashups here..
Also see: Google.com/Movies (movies/showtimes by US zip code) [Canada here..]

SearchOnMaps is a great new real estate mashup - This new Google Maps housing mashup combines real estate data provided by RealBird (listings via Listing Publisher and business profiles via the RealBird Yellow Pages service) and a home valuation tool by Zillow with local agent recommendations by RealBird. Data overlays include Yelp local reviews, Zvents local events, traffic incidents by Yahoo and nearby ValPak coupons. The service allows you to email, social bookmark and share properties, home valuations, business profiles or a specific map extent and to subscribe to RSS updates on a specific map via the unique "Watch this map" tool. (Read more here..)
More Google Maps Housing Mashups here..

• BlogUSphere Moods - This mashup combines We Feel Fine, Yahoo! Pipes and The Google Mashup Editor to map the feelings of the US blogosphere.. [Via ProgrammableWeb]
• America's Best Hospitals for Cancer Treatment - ..as mentioned in USNews (2007 data)
• Foodio 54 - Choose a restaurant based on your tastes and Foodio will match up your criteria with other users' interests and restaurants. Uses Google Maps to plot restaurants to make finding them easy. [Via ProgrammableWeb]

Google Maps Mashups: Live Earth, The Simpsons, World Airports

Live Earth Concert Google Map with Driving Directions - Ted Nye has created a timely and handy Maps tool for those of you heading to the Live Earth Concert in the USA, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, or Australia. Look to the bottom right of the map and enter your starting address and choose the location for the concert you're attending which has been pre-set in the drop down menu. The mashup also serves as a Google Maps view of the locations where the concert will be taking place.

Mashup of 7-Eleven turned (Simpsons) Kwik-E-Mart Locations - Amy dropped me a line to tell me about a Google My Map she created to show the locations of 7-Eleven stores in the US that have transformed themselves into Kwik-E-Marts to usher in the new Simpsons Movie! The Flickr tag for "kwikemart" and a search on YouTube expose some interesting photos and videos from the process and how it looks inside!

Mashup of airports, airlines and connections - This mashup creator informs us that "..AirDB is a project that aims to collect information about airport, airlines, and connections world wide". Google Maps is integrated to show locations of airports in a specific country or center the map on a particular airport to see a local view with details and other secondary airports nearby (Example here). You can also map the airports which a specific airline flies to - (See British Airways as an example). Finally, routes are also Google-mapped giving you a view of the route and lots of detail (Example here). Though not the prettiest UI, map pin design or page navigation, it is a very useful mashup if you're trying to learn more about a particular airport and airlines that fly to and from it.

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Technorati Tags:
Live Earth, The Simpsons Movie, Kwik e Mart

Google Maps Mania links for 2007-07-04

• Gridskipper's Worldwide Google My Maps Roundup
• New Google Maps Creation/Exploration Tool: MKMap
• FolkJam Music Map
• Google Blogoscoped: The Bourne Ultimatum Google (Maps) Tie-in Follow-up
• World Changing: Narrative Cartography
• New Virtual San Francisco Mapping Tool: MapJack [via]
• Help.com integrates Google Maps for live postings

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The TinTin Google Map

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Who better to have a Google Map of the places they have visited than the world famous cartoon comic book reporter known as TinTin?! The TinTin Movie Blog has created a simple Google Map to chronicle TinTin's world adventure on the TinTin Google Map. Here is a description from Chris, the map creator:
"..Ever wondered all the places Tintin went to? Or wondered where Herge based Syldavia on? Well find out now on the Tintin Map. It's not quite finished and I’ve only added a few books so far but the world is starting to fill up with the real and fictional
places Herge's Tintin visited on his adventures.. It uses the gMaps API and a MySql database so that visitors can add to and improve the maps locations."

Related Google Maps mashups:

• Book Maps Mashups: Part 1 & Part 2 - (category listing here..)
• TV Maps and Movie Maps

..Do you want to easily create a Google Map of places that you have visited? Use Google My Maps!

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Google Maps Mania links for 2007-03-16

• Top 25 Crimes of the Century - Mapped crimes from the TIME Magazine list.
• American Idol Contestants on Google Maps - Mapping the top 11
• 5 TVs - Internet TV News Google Map (26 world city TV stations, 17 Internet TV stations, and some "other stuff")
• Follow up to: "Google Maps/Earth user finds their Land Rover on Namibia - Angola border" - From the Joe Carnegie: "...Hi Mike, I did a bit of research since i emailed you about my latest shot it turns out the satellite image was taken 22.06.04 and my shot was 27.05.04, so it was close , but not exact however I am so pleased to have the Landie in the same spot as when i took my shot as the chances of that are just so small. to put it in perspective more people climb mt. Everest each year than go up to this part of the world, it is so remote. here is the link to that latest shot: http://flickr.com/photos/82822788@N00/415471488/" (Mike): Such a neat story that stitches together such interesting and "in-the-moment" technology: Digital photography, Satellite Photography, Online Photo-sharing, Desktop Mapping Software and Blogs.. all facilitated by the Internet! What an awesome world we're living in when we can discover a story like this.
• Top 10 Most Powerful African Americans in Hollywood - The mapped list from Black Enterprise.
• YouTube National Geographic Flyover Tour - Video clip that takes you to the National Geographic African Mega Flyover Project high-res animal shots found on Google Maps and Google Earth. [Found via this fantastic post on The Thinking Blog]
• FishingNotes.com - Google Maps tools for your next fishing trip
• eMotorPool.com - Google Maps carpool search
• StadiumHunt - Find stadiums around the US by sport.
• OpenRoadJourney.com - For motorcyclists to upload GPS tracks and plot their own routes.
• Voacap.com - For amateur radio enthusiasts and others who need to know their coordinates and Maidenhead locator. Also maps out international transmitter sites of worldwide international radio broadcasters.
• A Great "Mashup:" Mapping Literary Journeys - Playing on the "book maps" theme..
• MovieLocationsGuide.com - Movie Filming Locations
• Universal Pictures + LastMinute.com + Google Maps - Vote for your favorite romantic location!

Take a look at ProgrammableWeb for more Google Maps mashups and be sure to tune into Virender Ajmani's Google Maps Blog!

Google Maps Movie Mashup: Disturbia Suburbia

Disturbia Suburbia: *These* are the people in my neighborhood??

Here's a fun movie maps concept to help promote Disturbia, a new film from Paramount Pictures coming out in April. Disturbia Suburbia << ..said in a deep, dark voice :) >> is an interactive Google Map app where you enter your US zip code to find out more about the people in your neighborhood (don't worry.. it's completely fictional!). Peering in on the Bloomfield Hills, Michigan zip code 48301 you learn that 66 year old Joseph Dale, who has been a hardworking janitor at a local Bloomfield Hills high school for over 20 years is "haunted by his memories" and has just turned himself in for killing a woman nearly 25 years ago. Punch up your zip code and find out what deep dark secrets lurk.. (just for fun) then look around the rest of the website for other goodies as well... The movie looks pretty good - Check out the trailer!

Internet Movie Database: Disturbia

Other cool Movie Maps Mashups:

• Miami Vice: Explore Miami
• X-Men 3: X-Planet
• Napoleon Dynamite: Sweet Map of Preston, Idaho
• Da Vinci Code: Tour
• Lord of the Rings: Middle Earth Map
• MovieMappr: Movie Filming Locations
  

More Movie Maps Mashups can be found here..