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
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
2010	K9	Episode 4: The Bounty Hunter	unknown	video excerpt
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) OpenStreetMap in The Last Ship
2016	Grimm	Season 5 (chapter 10 & chapter 11)	No	Confirmed. Used as a basemap of Wolfach (Germany) OpenStreetMap in Grimm 5-10 OpenStreetMap in Grimm 5-10 OpenStreetMap in Grimm 5-11
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 OpenStreetMap in Parfum S01E05
2018	Ahora Noticias	Season 2018	Yes	Confirmed. Used as a basemap TV News Channel "Ahora Noticias" from Santiago, Chile, has a traffic section at the mornings that shows map data from OpenStreetMap with an ultra visible copyright notice!
2021	Lupin	Season 1 (chapter 3 time: 21.51)	No	Confirmed. Used as a basemap of Paris (France) OpenStreetMap in Lupin 103
2021	Sophie: A Murder in West Cork		No
2021	Clickbait	Episode 2	No	Confirmed. A map of Piedmont, CA photo
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. Mobile device showing OpenStreetMap in Alex Rider (TV series)
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.
2024	Bienvenue en Géozarbie	Domaine national français en Terre sainte - Sous haute protection at time 01:32	Yes as "©Openstreet map" Copy-screen of credit	Map seen at 01:32 of the serie
2024	Hippocrate	Season 3 Episode 1 at time 02:34	unknown	GPS seen at 02:34 of the serie

TV series that mention the OSM project in the dialogue

Year	Film or Series (mention episode)	Mention of OSM	Remarks
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 : - "How does route planning work? That's... is that OSRM, or are you using our APIs?" - "It's open-source." - "Open-source what?" - "OpenStreetMap, I'm pretty sure. It's... it's really advanced. We have the best guys on it." - "You don't actually write code, do you, Tyler?"	"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