Movie Scene Map

com.moviescenemapPublished by moviescenemap.comOfficial publisherv1.2.3Updated Nov 5, 2026

Where films and TV were shot, and where games, anime and manga are set. Wikidata, read only, CC0.

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Overview

AI-generated overview

Read-only atlas of real filming locations and story settings for films, series, games, anime and manga, with coordinates and fame ranking.

What you can do
  • Look up where a film, series, game, anime or manga was filmed or set, with coordinates and evidence
  • Find productions by title, or places by name, country or kind of place
  • List what was recorded as made at a given place, and what was filmed near a coordinate within a radius
  • Rank places worldwide or by country and kind, and list countries with their location counts
  • Report live aggregate statistics on media, place kinds and coverage gaps
When to use it
Useful when an assistant needs to answer travel, trivia or research questions about where something was shot or set, or what was filmed at or near a place, and should cite a sourced, read-only dataset rather than guess.
Requirements
Remote streamable HTTP endpoint; no install, signup or API key. Stateless and POST-only, so a GET returning 405 is expected. Self-hosting is possible with Node.js and an atlas JSON file, or via Docker.
Before you install
Read-only, but the data has limits: games, anime and manga are placed by where they are set, not filmed, and each record's relation field must be respected. A place is not a scene, so scene-level claims are unsupported. Some Wikipedia-derived fields are separate and should be quoted as per Wikipedia. Coverage is uneven and skewed to Europe and North America, and some productions are recorded only at country level.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open Movie Scene Map in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent — or into SourceWeft chat. The agent reads this server's install guide, shows you its publisher, endpoint and sign-in, and adds it to your client once you agree. Keys never go into a command.

Read https://sourceweft.com/mcp/com.moviescenemap%2Ffilming-locations/install.md and connect the MCP server it describes to my client. Before changing any config, show me its publisher, endpoint and sign-in method and wait for my OK. Never put an API key in a command or in a file I would commit; ask me where it should come from.

Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "movie-scene-map": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://moviescenemap.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

README

Movie Scene Map MCP server

A Model Context Protocol server for the Movie Scene Map atlas (called FilmMap until 1 September 2026): real filming locations of films and television series, and the real places video games, anime and manga are set in, with coordinates, fame ranking, per-place production lists and the source behind every claim. The counts move with every release; the live figures are on https://moviescenemap.com and in get_statistics.

It is already running. Point a client at the hosted endpoint; there is no install, no signup and no API key:

https://moviescenemap.com/mcp

The older address, https://thefilmmap.com/mcp, keeps answering for clients configured before the rename. Streamable HTTP, stateless, POST-only (a GET returning 405 is correct).

It is listed in the official MCP registry as com.moviescenemap/filming-locations (the older entry, com.thefilmmap/filming-locations, points at the older address and the same server).

Protocol. Revisions 2024-11-05, 2025-03-26, 2025-06-18 and 2025-11-25; the client's revision is echoed when it is one of these, and an MCP-Protocol-Version header naming another one gets a 400. Every tool is annotated as read only (readOnlyHint true, destructiveHint false, idempotentHint true, openWorldHint false), and a successful call returns structuredContent beside the same object as JSON text.

Client configuration

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

Tools

ToolWhat it does
where_was_it_filmedGive a title, get the places it was shot at, each with its evidence
what_was_filmed_hereThe inverse, and the question this atlas is unusual for answering: give a place, get everything recorded as made there
search_productionsFind productions by name, accent- and case-insensitive, best match first
search_locationsFind places by name, filterable by country or kind of place
locations_nearPlaces within a radius of a WGS84 coordinate, each with distance_km
top_locationsThe atlas ranked, worldwide or inside one country or one kind of place
list_countriesEvery country with how many filming locations it holds
get_statisticsLive aggregates: totals by medium and by kind of place, top countries, busiest places

What an answer will and will not claim

This is the part worth reading before wiring it into anything that writes prose.

Films and series are placed by filming location (P915). Video games, anime and manga are filmed nowhere, so they are placed by narrative location (P840), where the story is set, and every record says which relation it carries. Repeating one as the other 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 and must not be inferred from it.

Two kinds of evidence, never merged. Most links are Wikidata statements. Some are places named in a production's English Wikipedia Filming section, or a setting category its editors filed it under; those arrive in their own fields, labelled with the exact article and section they were read from. Say "per Wikipedia" when you repeat one.

A country is a name or a two letter ISO code. IT means Italy and nothing else, UK is read as GB, and a whole country name matches only itself.

A page link means the page exists. The site gives a production its own page only above a bar, so a production below it comes without a page field; its places are still listed and still on the map.

Coverage is uneven and the server says so. Some productions are recorded only at country level and appear with countries and no coordinates. Those that cannot be placed at all are published as a work list at moviescenemap.com/gaps/ so they can be fixed on Wikidata.

Data

Built from Wikidata, with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and article text linked rather than bundled. The factual records are CC0 and downloadable as GeoJSON and CSV from moviescenemap.com/data, also mirrored on GitHub.

The server reads one file, atlas-compact.json, which is the site's own wire format and is rebuilt on every deploy.

Running it yourself

sh
ATLAS_JSON=/path/to/atlas-compact.json PORT=8896 node server.mjs

Or with Docker, which bakes the public copy of the atlas into the image:

sh
docker build -t filmmap-mcp .docker run -p 8896:8896 filmmap-mcp     # → http://localhost:8896/mcp

HOST defaults to 127.0.0.1; the container sets 0.0.0.0 because the default is unreachable from outside a container. SITE_ROOT may point at a copy of the site's built pages, so that a production gets a page link only when its page exists; without it every production gets one. For clients that start the server themselves, node server.mjs --stdio speaks newline delimited JSON-RPC on stdin and stdout.

Licence

MIT for the server. The dataset it serves is CC0; photographs and Wikipedia text referenced by URL stay under their own licences.

Source: README.md at commit 4e84ad3

Tools

8

where_was_it_filmed

Where a film, series or game was filmed

Returns every place recorded for a film, series, game, anime or manga, with coordinates, plus the countries recorded too coarsely to place. Covers 37,259 productions across 37,350 places. Films and series are placed where they were filmed (Wikidata P915). Video games, anime and manga are filmed nowhere, so they are placed where they are set (P840); the `relation` field of each record says which. A filled `countries_only` list means Wikidata records the production in those countries without a finer place. Places named only in the production's own Wikipedia article come in separate fields prefixed `wiki_`. The data records that a production was filmed at a place, not which scene was shot there.

Parameterslimittitlerequired

search_productions

Search films, series and games by name

Finds productions by name, ignoring accents and case, best match first, then by how widely Wikipedia covers them. An optional filter by kind: film, tv, game, anime or manga. Each result carries its kind, its year and a `relation` field: films and series are placed where they were filmed, games, anime and manga where they are set.

Parameterskindlimitqueryrequired

what_was_filmed_here

What was filmed at a place

Returns everything recorded as made at a place, most widely covered first. Takes the place as a slug (e.g. "skellig-michael") or as a name. Each result carries a `relation` field, because a video game, an anime or a manga tied to a place is set there, not filmed there.

Parameterslimitplacerequired

search_locations

Search filming locations by name

Finds filming locations by name, optionally filtered by country (a name or a two letter ISO code) and by kind of place. Results are ordered by fame rank, which comes from the most widely covered production shot there rather than from the place itself.

Parameterslimitqueryrequiredcountrycategory

locations_near

Filming locations near a point

Lists the filming locations within a radius of a WGS84 coordinate, most famous first, each with its `distance_km`: what was filmed near a point. The radius defaults to 50 km (at most 500). Takes a latitude and a longitude in degrees; it does not look up place names.

Parameterslimitcategorylatituderequiredlongituderequiredradius_km

top_locations

The most filmed places

Ranks the places in the atlas, worldwide or inside one country or one kind of place. The default order is fame rank, which comes from the most widely covered production shot there, so rank 1 is the place the most famous production used, not the place with the most credits. With `sort` set to `productions` the order is by number of productions (Los Angeles, New York, Vancouver).

Parameterssortlimitcountrycategory

list_countries

Countries with location counts

Lists every country in the atlas with its number of filming locations, most first. Countries with a page on the site carry its URL. The counts reflect what Wikidata records, which is uneven and skewed to Europe and North America: they are records, not an inventory of world film production.

Takes no parameters.

get_statistics

Atlas statistics

Headline figures computed live from the atlas: totals by medium and by kind of place, the top countries, the busiest and the most famous locations, and how many productions Wikidata records only at country level and so cannot place.

Takes no parameters.

Version history

1
  1. v1.2.3LatestNov 5, 2026

Score

100% of the applicable checks met

How complete this listing is, computed from the registry entry, the endpoint and public sources. Not a rating of the server and not a statement that it is safe or working today: reachability is a dated check, and no installs or reviews go into the score.

  • Reached in the last 30 daysRequired25 pts
  • Auth declaredRequired10 pts
  • Tools listedRequired15 pts
  • DescriptionRequired15 pts
  • Logo10 pts
  • Documentation15 pts
  • License10 pts

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