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Do you plan to contribute the data back into OSM? That would be the nice way to go to share with the community and allow you to have better data in the future with less maintenance work.

by flaburgan

Love this - I've tried finding courses through google maps and left wanting more. Would be great to have prices (or even a price "average") this is often a big deciding factor for me.

by vinniev

Golf is a sport I never tried but really want to. Also from the outside it looks both fun and relaxing to be outside in the nature. But I’m in the wrong country for that currently lol, golf is a niche here in Eastern Europe

by haunter

This is supercool. But I have a tangential question. I see projects like this built on top of OSM for different use cases. Does this data gets contributed back to OSM. A lot of them seems hobby projects, so it's hard to maintain long term, but the data is quite useful and could be used beyond the lifetime of these projects if they can be contributed back to OSM somehow.

by wanderingmind

Nice job! When I zoom in on Google earth you can easily see if it’s actually a golf course or not, would been interesting to use this to draw up the areas with polygons and some more details.

Then you could start providing a lot more details about each one automatically.

by punnerud

So, I started https://golfcourse.wiki in 2020, and I see courses that basically only I’ve mapped.

It’s cool, I want it to be public, if you want to work together, do reach out.

I would also say what you are doing is almost certainly opening you up to liability if you are just scraping other sites and republishing their data. One paper town that you published and you might have a lawsuit on your hands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_settlement

by scoofy

I am not sure how it is in USA but in my country golf courses are abuse of public resources for (almost) private use. For a very few who can lobby enough for renewal of these leases and these are kept out of reach of the normal public, either by rule or by cost, sometimes both. Golf courses are lungs of many of the growing cities, across the world, but I do believe they should not be kept exclusive. Also, this comes directly from feudal/colonial times here. Those also require too much of other natural and public resources to be maintained.

by crossroadsguy

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  • I was going to say you were missing this one but I'm not sure if it's still open after the county purchased it.

    https://www.pga.com/play/ny/rome/mohawk-glen-golf-course/033...

    Now add mini golf courses.

    by mercurywells
  • Do you plan to contribute the data back into OSM? That would be the nice way to go to share with the community and allow you to have better data in the future with less maintenance work.
    by flaburgan
  • Love this - I've tried finding courses through google maps and left wanting more. Would be great to have prices (or even a price "average") this is often a big deciding factor for me.
    by vinniev
  • Golf is a sport I never tried but really want to. Also from the outside it looks both fun and relaxing to be outside in the nature. But I’m in the wrong country for that currently lol, golf is a niche here in Eastern Europe
    by haunter
  • This is supercool. But I have a tangential question. I see projects like this built on top of OSM for different use cases. Does this data gets contributed back to OSM. A lot of them seems hobby projects, so it's hard to maintain long term, but the data is quite useful and could be used beyond the lifetime of these projects if they can be contributed back to OSM somehow.
    by wanderingmind
  • Nice job! When I zoom in on Google earth you can easily see if it’s actually a golf course or not, would been interesting to use this to draw up the areas with polygons and some more details.

    Then you could start providing a lot more details about each one automatically.

    by punnerud
  • So, I started https://golfcourse.wiki in 2020, and I see courses that basically only I’ve mapped.

    It’s cool, I want it to be public, if you want to work together, do reach out.

    I would also say what you are doing is almost certainly opening you up to liability if you are just scraping other sites and republishing their data. One paper town that you published and you might have a lawsuit on your hands.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_settlement

    by scoofy
  • I am not sure how it is in USA but in my country golf courses are abuse of public resources for (almost) private use. For a very few who can lobby enough for renewal of these leases and these are kept out of reach of the normal public, either by rule or by cost, sometimes both. Golf courses are lungs of many of the growing cities, across the world, but I do believe they should not be kept exclusive. Also, this comes directly from feudal/colonial times here. Those also require too much of other natural and public resources to be maintained.
    by crossroadsguy