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Something I have wanted to do for years, as a location scout and location manager, is to have an easily-web-accessible film zone map to use for reference.

The jury is (and may always be) out on the best solutions for digital file archiving and backup. What follows are some thoughts about same and some solutions I have been exposed to:

…via ProductionNow Blog…

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“This was so cool I just had to post about it:

https://www.photoshop.com/express/

These are my links for April 7th through April 8th:

• Adobe Photoshop Express – Made You Look. –

These are my del.icio.us links for April 2nd:

• Search results slideshow on Flickr –

Update 3/26/08 – This is a general cleanup of an article I originally posted timestamped December 04, 2006 @ 09:07. At the time I wrote the original post, geotagged map solutions which could include photos were really just starting to come of their own (from what I could find myself and / or was able to wrap my head around at the time …

If you are a location professional, there are a number of ways to interact with peers and other production people online.

Videology-TV | About Videology-TV:

Early this morning when Jungle Disk started throwing errors, I knew something wasn’t right, it wasnt till around 10:30 things were back to normal.

The New York City Mayors Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting (MOFTB) recently announced a new online film permit system to be implemented in the near future as well as interactive training sessions offered free of charge for the purpose of assisting location scouts, location managers and other production professionals to become familiar with using the new system.

Preface: This post is not so much about doing actual location scouting work using the internet*, but rather finding online content that other location scouts might be posting around the internet or other published content on the subject of location scouting. So I guess it is, in way, but not really?

Lots of changes afoot at the New York City Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting (MOFTB), begun this past year and likely to continue well into 2008 that involve a rewrite of many rules that include potential easing of some film permit requirements and other changes.

Steve Knee Interview at BizBash via Google Blogs Alerts

Steven Knee, a long-time New York City location scout, was recently interviewed by online event planning resource portal, BizBash.

Metaphilm Movie Mapper via Deisel Powered Nuns:

Movie Mapper is an online database of film locations in New York City (Part of the Metaphilm website)

The Times Online – Irish Castles | December 10, 2006 | In defence of Irish castles – Where can I get to quickly?

Hi- I am R. Richard Hobbs.

The Creative Planet websites are the online version of all those niche trade magazines you always can never resist subscribing to (free for qualified subscribers!) and often wonder what you were thinking as six months of “Widgets Monthly” piles up unread; the upside of the online versions (if you can stay your trembling hand from subscribing by email) is you can stay up to speed on your own time on the latest technologies (yup, lot-o industrial/gear/tech press releases) online -and no trees died for your sins:

FilmCommissionHQ.com | About | What is FilmCommissionHQ?

Slashdot | Pearl Jam Releases Video Under Creative Commons | Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Saturday May 20, @11:58PM from the popular-to-be-free dept. | Music | minitrue writes:

The New Yorker Film File

The New Yorker Film File collects nearly two thousand short reviews of films released from 1990 to the present. Reviews are arranged alphabetically.

Welcome to Creative Film Cars

Internet Movie Database: Movie Terminology Glossary

VIA Online: Movie Location Scout:

On the Road – Nancy Haecker location scout | Scouting Las Vegas | By Amy Graff | Published July 2001

ProductionHUB – Online Resource and Industry Directory for Film, Television, Video, and Digital Media Production