Hello k,

What's up with the little stub of an area at the western edge of Hole 2 with the angle cut across the fairway? The whole area should be a single way and shouldn't be in two pieces and I'm trying to understand why it was created this way so I can help prevent it from happening in the future. Thanks.

FYI, I deleted a couple of ways that were tagged as fairways, but were essentially just duplicates of ways that defined the greens. Not sure why there were two nearly identical ways in a couple of spots.

Hi Doubletab13,

In the future, please make sure you don't overlap areas like the fairways and tees. They should butt up against each other, but not cross.

Thanks.

Also, fairways should be drawn as a single polygon, not breaking them up into many adjoining polygons. Thanks.

Hello Dante,

You might want to check out the following link before drawing more sand traps with inner grass:

https://learnosm.org/en/beginner/id-editor/#drawing-multipolygons

You should be drawing the entire outer ring and tagging it with sand trap and then drawing each inner grass ring (tagging as rough if appropriate), and then selecting all of them and "combining" them into what is known as a multipolygon.

Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any further questions.

Happy mapping.

Hi there mocinigolf,

You might want to check out the following link before drawing more sand traps with inner grass:

https://learnosm.org/en/beginner/id-editor/#drawing-multipolygons

You should be drawing the entire outer ring and tagging it with sand trap and then drawing each inner grass ring (tagging as rough if appropriate), and then selecting all of them and "combining" them into what is known as a multipolygon.

Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any further questions.

Happy mapping.

FYI, the ways that define a bunker shouldn't overlap. They should be drawn with a single line, not by copy/pasting circles on top of each other. Thanks.

I thought this was Pokemon Go map vandalism when I first saw it, but satellite imagery confirms there is actually some sort of course here. Is this a private house with a golf enthusiast? Do the lines between tees and holes actually criss-cross and go through the corner of the house? Is this your house?

Nice bounding box, dummy.

Nice bounding box, dummy.

While I admire the nostalgia of playing a virtual version of a golf course that is no longer around, if it doesn't exist currently, it should not be added to OpenStreetMap. Can you confirm whether or not this course is actually still there? Thanks.

Hello localbirder,

OSM doesn't have a concept of a green's "fringe", so you shouldn't be creating a ring around a fringe and labeling it "fairway" as there is already a fairway there and it doesn't make any sense to have a fairway inside of another fairway as that is redundant. I've cleaned up this particular area, but figured you might want to keep this in mind when mapping future golf courses. Thx.

Hi there Capn71,

I just wanted to let you know that golf=hole ways aren't meant to define an area around a fairway, but instead being that straight line (or couple of line segments) that show the approximate path from the tee to the green. I'm making a couple of changes around the first hole and thought you might want to know for future mapping you do. Thanks for the contributions.

There is a test version of OSM if you need to test out changes with software that you're developing. Maybe that would work better for you during testing. In the meantime, I'm going to delete this way as it was still there tonight and is officially the largest fairway with 4 nodes defined in the United States.

I don't know why you couldn't delete that short way, but I was able to delete it in changeset/118616187

Oh, interesting. I didn't realize they were building out in that area. I looked at some more recent sat imagery, and I can see the construction. Thanks!

Thanks for the reminder. ;-) I've been meaning to go here and throw some axes around.

Why was the way that defined the ditch deleted?

Never heard back so I went ahead and deleted these. Guess it will remain a mystery.

Hello GolfMapper,

When you come across something like the fairway around way/861230110, it's better for you to just modify the existing fairway instead of overlapping a new area that overlaps. The correct result is to have a single fairway area that defines the entire area.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out.