TV series
This is a list of TV series that are either about OpenStreetMap or use OpenStreetMap and give credit.
TV series about OSM
Year | Tv Series | Chapter | Subject | Link to video | Remarks |
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2020 | Now Go Build | Season 2 (episode 2) | Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) works in the Philippines | YouTube | Removed from YouTube, after A Call to Correct Narratives about Geospatial Work in the Philippines |
TV series that use OSM
While there may certainly be many tv series that unintentionally use OpenStreetMap as a prop element, or intentionally but neglected to provide credit, some tv series have intentionally used OSM-derived maps or OSM data in production and provided attribution in the tv series's end credits.
Year | Tv Series | Chapter | Credits OSM? | Use of OSM | Remarks |
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2010 | K9 | Episode 4: The Bounty Hunter | unknown | video excerpt |
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2014 | Tatort | Episode 919: Winternebel | unknown | Source: Parked image proposals | |
2014 | The Last Ship | Season 1 Episode 10: No Place Like Home at 06:08 | No | Map shown on screen (Location shown) | |
2016 | Grimm | Season 5 (chapter 10 & chapter 11) | No | Confirmed. Used as a basemap of Wolfach (Germany) | |
2018 | Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry's Mysterious World of Maths | Episode 1: Numbers as God | Yes | A woman is using openstreetmap.org website on the phone showing some streets. End credits state "Openstreetmap contributors". | |
2018 | Parfum | Season 1 (Episode 5 time: 54.10) | No | Confirmed. Used as a basemap | |
2018 | Ahora Noticias | Season 2018 | Yes | Confirmed. Used as a basemap | |
2021 | Lupin | Season 1 (chapter 3 time: 21.51) | No | Confirmed. Used as a basemap of Paris (France) | |
2021 | Sophie: A Murder in West Cork | No | |||
2021 | Clickbait | Episode 2 | No | Confirmed. A map of Piedmont, CA photo |
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2021 | Kastanjemanden | Episode 2 | No | Printed map with handwritten annotations. OSM Carto rendering style. Location shown: Ordrup, Denmark | |
2021 | Alex Rider | Series 2, Episode 2 | No | Unconfirmed. A map of London, GB around St. James's Park & Lambeth. Data likely derived from OpenStreetMap, although potentially with modified naming and style. | |
2022 | Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes | Episodes 1–3 | No | An OSM-derived map of Chicago metropolitan area | |
2022 | HPI: Haut potentiel intellectuel | Season 2 (chapter 3, time: 1:54) | No | An OSM-derived map of Lille metropolitan area | |
2023 | NCIS: Hawaiʻi | Season 2 (chapter 21, time: 38:34) | No | Confimed. An OSM-derived map of Caracas metropolitan area | |
2024 | The Boys | Season 4 Episode 1 at time 30:45 | No | OpenCycleMap portion of Toronto, Canada without street names. |
TV series that mention the OSM project in the dialogue
Year | Film or Series (mention episode) | Mention of OSM | Remarks |
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2022 | Super Pumped (TV series). Season 1, Episode 3, "War" |
The scene is from a meeting at Google HQ with Travis Kalanick (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Larry Page (Ben Feldman). Dialogue excerpt : [1] - "How does route planning work? That's... is that OSRM, or are you using our APIs?" |
"OpenStreetMap" is definitely not quite the right answer when someone from Google is asking you, "How does route planning work?" Additional unnecessary remark, such as "I'm pretty sure. It's... it's really advanced. We have the best guys on it," does not exude technical confidence. Larry had already guessed two of the possible alternative options: either using "our APIs" (which is Google Maps Platform's Routes API) or OSRM (one of the currently available OSM-based routing libraries). Instead of answering with "OpenStreetMap", Tyler should have explicitly mentioned the exact OSM-based routing library that they use (it's probably one from these). |
See also
- Films - list of films and movies that are either about OpenStreetMap or use OpenStreetMap
- OpenStreetMap in deutschen TV-Produktionen - list of appearances of OSM in German television