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Show HN: I mapped every US golf course

rickmf

Comments (69)

  • scoofy
    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
  • crossroadsguy
    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.
  • ivanjermakov
    Or just run Overpass OSM query with `node["leisure"="golf_course"]`https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API/Overpass_QL
  • scotty79
    Golf courses in USA use half a trillion gallons of fresh water annually.All data centers use less than 0.2 (of which only less than 0.02 is used for cooling the servers, the rest is just electricity generation, which can and should be replaced with solar).There's no replacement for water usage for golf courses and even half a trillion number is after recent 30% reduction of usage from what it was before.
  • punnerud
    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.
  • comrade1234
    You have hidden greens in Solon springs Wisconsin but you have it on the wrong side of the lake. It's like a 25-minute drive around the lake to get to it.I think you must only have the village name for the address and not the street address. You can see the golf course in the map image on the other side of the lake.
  • haunter
    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
  • flaburgan
    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.
  • eamag
    if you want to create custom maps there's https://mapcomplete.org/
  • cwilkes
    Missing this one on Bainbridge Island, outside of Seattle:https://nwhickoryplayers.org/2015/08/ccs/Believe it is only open for residents in that area
  • postalrat
  • totetsu
    This is fascinating not because I’m interested in visiting any of these. But to see the communities in Alaska with courses, or to look at the most concentrated places and wonder what so many people in Florida get out of having a fairway and one hole right in their backyard..
  • cheeaun
    Polygon areas would be cool to see how big they are. I made this few years ago for Singapore https://observablehq.com/@cheeaun/golf-courses-in-singapore
  • jasonjei
    No information on Olympic Club. I’m a member. Let me know if you need info for filling the gaps there.
  • mercurywells
    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.
  • adm4
    great! have you seen https://openskimap.org/ and https://openskistats.org/... maybe change name to open golf map?
  • thomasswift
    This is badass. Thank you!Near my area, there is a driving range and a simulator place as pins. both nice but not courses. Do you want reports on that?
  • aren55555
    Would be sweet if it also had membership status (private/public/etc)
  • anon
    undefined
  • abhishek_aieng
    Are you planning to do somthing similar other than US?
  • prologic
    Any plans to expand this to other parts of the world?
  • ryan_lane
    It would be interesting to map this to parkinson's data.
  • elpakal
    clicked on a website link for a course near me and it took me to a weird site wopraja
  • proxy_skate
    so thats why lebron wanted to go to philadelphia or miami
  • markdown
    FYI:2101 Sneath Ln, San Bruno, CA 94066, United Stateshttps://i.imgur.com/DP6SOtr.jpeg
  • verdverm
    are we able to estimate water usage and other statistics from this data set?
  • andrewstuart
    Why free? Golfers have money.
  • cantalopes
    This map just shows how terrible more priviledged people are and destroy our environment for their rich boi "fun"