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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
mapsontheweb
mapsontheweb: “Every real place a video game is set in. 1,533 games, each one placed on the real world location where its story happens: 449 places in 95 countries. New York carries 245 of them, London 123, Tokyo 122, Los Angeles 92. Monaco, a...
mapsontheweb

Every real place a video game is set in.

1,533 games, each one placed on the real world location where its story happens: 449 places in 95 countries. New York carries 245 of them, London 123, Tokyo 122, Los Angeles 92. Monaco, a country of two square kilometres, carries 63, which is more than Chicago or Washington.

The grey dots are places that do not exist, standing on the real ones behind them. Liberty City on New York, Vice City on Miami, Kamurochō on Kabukichō in Tokyo. The orange ones are the games Wikidata records only as a whole country, with nothing finer behind them, and there are 103 of those.

Every dot is a “narrative location” statement on Wikidata, so nothing on this map was filmed anywhere. It is where the story is set, never where a crew stood.

Interactive version, free, no signup and no ads: https://thefilmmap.com

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skyberia

was reminded of that youtube channel that records footage of that bridge that scalps trucks today. one of the fascinating developments that's happened since i last heard about it is that, in one of their many attempts to stop the trucks from being can-opened, they installed a traffic light that detects when a vehicle that's over the allowed height is coming and turns red so the driver can stop and hopefully notice the signage all around that's screaming "YOUR VEHICLE IS OVERHEIGHT TURN AROUND" and avoid an accident. However as a result sometimes drivers see the light turning yellow and IMMEDIATELY start flooring it to avoid having to stop, ensuring that the roof of their truck just gets fucking annihilated instantly. Really beautiful stuff you should check it out

nieyao

the comments have me in tears

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abowlofjellyfish

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twiggies-draws

@rogue-bard

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It DOES have a sign. It turns on when it detects something too tall for the bridge. It even flashes. And the traffic lights will go red to get people to stop when it detects an over height vehicle so they read the signs. (note this lovely example where the lights are red, because the truck thought it was better than the lights)

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library-seraph

every time I see this post I've forgotten how clearly signposted the canopener bridge is, and every time it hits me like a truck (hitting the canopener bridge and getting the top of its trailer ripped asunder)

hawfstuff

Important update, out of curiosity I went to look at The Can Opener on google maps and discovered that they have since opened a THEMED FOOD TRUCK PARK RIGHT NEXT TO THE BRIDGE

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Sit down and crack open a cold one and if you're lucky the bridge will crack open a cold one with you.

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the webcam is also visible on street view