Open data and the MCP endpoint

Everything on this map, downloadable in one file, plus a live endpoint an AI assistant can query directly. No account, no key, no rate limit worth mentioning.

The files

15,535 filming locations across 166 countries, for 9,262 films and series, 2,153 video games and every anime and manga beside them. Rebuilt on every deploy, so these are whatever the map is showing today.

• filming-locations.geojson One Point per place, with country, kind, fame rank, production count and its page. Drops straight into QGIS, Leaflet or MapLibre.
• filming-locations.csv The same places as a flat table, one row each, for spreadsheets and pandas.
• productions.csv One row per film, series, game, anime and manga: year, kind, the places it is attached to, what each Wikipedia claim was read from, and the countries recorded too coarsely to place.
• atlas-compact.json The site's own wire format, all three source files in one document. This is what the MCP server reads.

Licence: the facts are Wikidata's, released as CC0, and the arrangement here adds no claim on top. Photographs are on Wikimedia Commons under their own terms and are linked, not bundled. A credit is welcome and not required.

One thing is deliberately not in these files: the sentences the site quotes to say what was shot at a place. They are verbatim English Wikipedia, which is CC BY-SA 4.0, and bundling share-alike text into a download offered as CC0 would make that offer false. They stay on the pages, in quotation marks, each linked to its article, where the licence they arrive under can be honoured.

Two things to read before you use it

Video games, anime and manga were filmed nowhere. The 2,153 games in here, and every anime and manga beside them, are placed by narrative location (P840), which is where the story is set, while every film and series is placed by filming location (P915). Every row carries that distinction in its kind and relation columns. Anything that reprints this data without keeping them apart publishes a false claim.

A place is not a scene. P915 records that a production filmed at a place and stops there. Which scene was shot where is not in the data, so it is not in these files either, and it must not be inferred from them. In the same spirit, 836 productions are recorded only at country level: they appear with their countries and no coordinates, because that is genuinely all that is known.

Two kinds of evidence, in separate columns. Most production–place links are Wikidata statements. Some are places named in the production's English Wikipedia Filming section, where the prose knows more than the statements do; those ship in their own columns (wiki_place_slugs on a production, wiki_productions on a place) and are never merged into the statement columns. Anything that reprints this data has to keep that separation or it upgrades a sentence into a database record.

The MCP endpoint

A read-only Model Context Protocol server over the same data, at https://moviescenemap.com/mcp. Streamable HTTP, stateless, no authentication. Eight tools: where a production was filmed, what was filmed at a place, what was filmed near a coordinate, searches over both sides, the ranking, the country list and the statistics.

{
"mcpServers": {
"filmmap": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://moviescenemap.com/mcp"
}
}
}

The two rules above are built into the endpoint rather than left to the reader: every record it returns carries the filmed at or set in distinction, and the server says so again in its own instructions, because an assistant will only know if it is told.

Where it comes from

Every row traces to a Wikidata item and links it. Nothing here is scraped from listicles and nothing is generated. What the atlas covers, and what it deliberately leaves out, is written up on the about page.