Monday, July 11, 2011

Film Locations on Google Maps

Spott is a mobile phone application that lets you check for nearby places that have been used in movie or TV scenes.

Using Spott you can view a Google Map that shows locations near you that have been used in iconic scenes in films and TV shows. You can also search a particular city for locations or search by actor or film.

Registered users of Spott can add locations to the map and can even take photographs of themselves at film locations and add them to the Spott image gallery.

Spott is available both for the iPhone and Android phones.

Filmaps

Filmaps is a 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.

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.

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2 comments:

coderpunk said...

Thanks for mentioning Movie Landmarks again. I've recently redesigned the pages (removed the videos, youtube kills them off too fast) and cleaned up the interface. The correct link to the bridge is now - http://movielandmarks.com/#lm-291

david said...

Hi, thanks again to mention filmaps in this post. The new site will soon have a new design, closely related to tourism and taking into account the user .... hope you like it!. We will inform you so that you can enter the beta.

We remind you that we have a new Facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/filmapscom

Thanks !

David - filmaps co-founder