Golf Course Browser - Map 17k+ US golf courses for free
Show HN: I mapped every US golf course – 16k+ courses, free, no signup
Golf Course Browser is a comprehensive, free-to-use platform mapping over 17,000 golf courses across the United States and Canada. Built by a golfer for golfers, this tool eliminates the need for sign-ups, offering instant access to an interactive map with detailed filters for course type, access level, and amenities. Whether searching for a nearby public course or a specific resort destination, users can quickly locate venues, view estimated hole counts, and discover hidden gems without any barriers. The platform leverages OpenStreetMap data to provide a seamless, community-driven experience for planning your next round.
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- 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.
- 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.
- snisarenko
Great job! This is very useful.
The search by city, state doesn't seem to work.
If you enter something like "los angeles, ca" it returns no results.
zip code search works fine.
- npilk
It turns out people have even mapped individual greens, fairways, bunkers, etc on OpenStreetMap! So you can use that data to generate a yardage book for each course: https://npilk.github.io/openyardage-web/
- 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.
- jaqalopes
Possible bug: Went scrolling way East on the map for kicks and was surprised to find 14 courses on Guam, but also that the data don't repopulate as you make it back around the globe a second time. This seems to happen in both directions—eg Guam doesn't populate at all if you scroll West.
- wanderingmind
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.
- mikeocool
As I recall, OSM already tends to have many golf courses mapped in extreme detail, because there’s a game that lets you play OSM golf courses on your golf simulator.
This sometimes leads to conflict between the game’s passionate users and OSM, when they map every road around a golf course as a cart path, because that’s the only thing the game imports.