I saw an episode of a TV show with Jennifer Love Hewitt where she ran a business in Sugar Land TX and lives in Beaumont. Anyone in the greater Houston area would know that was very impractical. That would be a 3 hour or more drive during rush hours. Not the quick jaunt as shown in the show. Someone should have looked at a map.



David Bigwood

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From: Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John M Anderson

Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 11:37 AM

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The geography in NCIS New Orleans is all messed up.  For example, in one recent episode they raided a camp in  Holly Beach, LA that was shown near New Orleans on their maps when it’s over 200 miles away in the southwest part of the state.   They need to hire a local map librarian as a consultant.   A few art departments from the local “Hollywood South” studios have come in and I registered with them as a local resource but haven’t had much contact.



As a side note, we provided the official 1927 Louisiana state map that appears in the movie the Green Mile.



John



John M. Anderson

Map Librarian and Director

Cartographic Information Center

Department of Geography & Anthropology

LSU

Baton Rouge, LA 70803

(225) 578-6247







From: Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ken Grabach

Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 11:02 AM

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I remember a TV pilot, sometime in the 1970s, supposedly set in Flint, Michigan.  The scenario of the pilot involved a Soap Box Derby event.  So far, so good, there's a really nice Derby track on a small slope near one high school (or there was at the time, don't know if it's still there).  The egregious error was that it was filmed in California and showed a glorious background of the snow-capped Sierra Nevada!  There are hills in Michigan, only few in SE Michigan, but no faulted mountain peaks, and definitely none high enough to be snow-capped in summer!



Ken Grabach

Maps Librarian

BEST Library, 219D

Miami University Libraries

Oxford, OH  45056  USA



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On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Stone, Howard <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:

I thought of another example:



When I was a kid in the 1950s, the Pennsylvania Dutch Country was full of tourist attractions with Dutch themes and logos like windmills. I don't know if this is still true. It was only after many years that I learned that the Pennsylvania Dutch are German and not Dutch.

For instance, see https://www.dutchhaven.com/