Compare Television Geography and The Mountains of Illinois. In medieval and older works, this trope is a sign that the story was known in places far removed from where it originated. This trope may not be obvious to anyone unfamiliar with the locale in question, but anyone who lives there will spot it right away, and when it's bad enough it can destroy the believability of the entire project or at least make the filmmakers look lazy. This is often used in a stereotypical way, since well Viewers Are Morons, the popular image of a country or region's geography is used rather than the actual one.
Often the lack of knowledge beyond common National Stereotypes results in a Hollywood Atlas or worse. A show set in suburban Cleveland should not look like Southern California. Lack of knowledge of regional climate or local architecture can also be glaringly obvious. The most common seems to be setting a story in a particular city without consulting a map, thus placing locations that are nowhere near one another quite close by, underestimating the time it would take to get from one to another, and sometimes transplanting whole landmarks from somewhere else entirely.
This form of Artistic License can happen in a number of ways. The Nostalgia Chick on the towering cliffs of coastal Virginia in Pocahontas.Ī writer may want to set a story in a location, but that doesn't mean they want or need to be accurate.
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