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Developer maps all 16000+ golf courses in the USA – free and open to everyone
A developer has built a free golf course catalog covering over 16000 American courses based on OpenStreetMap data, cross-checked against official sources and golfer input. The service is ad-free, requires no login, and users can correct information directly on the pages.
WHY IT MATTERS
The project demonstrates how crowdsourcing and open data can outperform commercial solutions on quality and coverage, and illustrates a growing trend of niche specialists building better tools for specific communities than large platforms manage.
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