Golf Maps

General talk
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I was out on the course yesterday and traced out a golf course pretty well. I was going to map it in detail as opposed to just putting a big green golf course leisure:golf_course over the whole area. I guess I would first want to see what other have done before I start. Does anyone know of a good example of a golf course mapped in detail? I looked at some famous courses, among others around the world, and didn’t see any detailed examples.

I guess I would want to edit the map in a way so that it could be used in the same way as all the other commercial GPS range finders for golf that are already on the market.

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People use GPS rangefinders??! :open_mouth:

Wow, I never would have known.

I can’t answer your question, btw, you might need to come up with some new tags

Steve

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There’s an article by Richard Weait here on golf course mapping and rendering: http://weait.com/content/golf-course-style-openstreetmap
It has a link to a golf course mapped in detail.
This proposal should have most of the tags you need: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Golf_course

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great, thanks vclaw, exactly what I was looking for.

via those links I was able to find a few examples. I think the best one I’ve seen so far is this:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=10.91273&lon=77.0203&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF

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Natural=beach?! I think you call that mapping for the renderer!