Something missing?
Every pin on this map comes from something a volunteer wrote down, so when a film you know is not here, the reason is almost always that nobody has recorded where it was shot yet. Anyone can change that, including you, and it takes about a minute. Here is how, starting with the way that helps everybody rather than only this site.
Add the filming location to Wikidata
This is the fix worth making. Wikidata is the open database underneath this atlas, and a statement added there reaches every project reading it, not just this one. You need an account, which is free and takes a moment.
- Open the production's item on Wikidata. Every production page here links straight to it, at the bottom, under “Source data”.
- Press add statement, type filming location, and choose the property called exactly that. It is P915.
- Type the place. It has to be an item that already exists and carries coordinates, so a town, a district, a building, a park or a studio. A whole country is a valid statement and an unmappable one, which is why some pages here say a country in words and show no pin.
- Add a reference, using add reference below the statement you just made. The Wikipedia article’s own citation is ideal, a URL for wherever you read it is fine. An unsourced statement is the kind another editor deletes later.
- Publish. This site is rebuilt from a fresh query rather than on a schedule, and the pin appears at the next rebuild.
Video games, anime and manga work the same way with one different property: narrative location (P840), where the story is set, because none of the three is filmed anywhere. For those three the atlas also reads the setting categories on English and Japanese Wikipedia, so filing a work under 「東京を舞台としたアニメ作品」 puts it on Tokyo here too.
If the article says it and the map does not
Since August 2026 this atlas also reads the production's own English Wikipedia article, and 5,470 productions here rest on that kind of evidence, always labelled “per Wikipedia” and never mixed with the statements. It is deliberately fussy: a place counts only when the sentence around it says a camera stood there, so a town named in a plot summary or in a list of settings is skipped on purpose. If a Filming or Production section says it plainly and the pin is still not here, that is a bug worth telling me about. Only English Wikipedia is read, so a place recorded solely in another language edition needs the Wikidata route above.
It also runs the other way, and that is the easiest useful edit on this whole site: where the article says it and Wikidata does not, the fact is already written down and usually already cited, and recording it as a statement takes a minute. The work list names the productions in that position, most widely known first, alongside the ones recorded only as a whole country.
If a pin is wrong
Two different repairs, depending on where the mistake lives. If the statement itself is wrong, fix it on Wikidata and it corrects everyone. If this site has misread a sentence, the mistake is mine: Frostpunk sat on Krakatoa for a day because the sentence naming the volcano was about an eruption rather than a setting. Mistakes of that kind get written down on the changelog along with the fix, and the person who found them gets the credit.
Or just tell me
Not everyone wants a Wikidata account, and a report is better than a silence. ceoflightmussy@gmail.com. What helps most is the title, the place, and where it is written down, because the last part is what lets the fix go upstream where it belongs. Reports also arrive through the fediverse, where most of the corrections on that changelog came from.
What no report can fix
Some gaps are the data itself. 817 productions here are recorded only as a country or a state, too coarse for a dot that would claim something nobody wrote. Many famous films carry no filming location anywhere at all, and that is heavily uneven by country. A curated atlas is also not a census: 14,525 places in 88 countries is what has been recorded and written up, never everywhere a camera has ever been. A sparse country means sparse data, and usually a language Wikidata is thinner in.