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.
The amount of water used is somewhat less important than what the source of the water is.
And it's important to understand that "using water" isn't like "using coal". In other words, while coal can be burned once, water is in a cycle that means water can be "used" infinitly.
But back to the source. A golf course near me takes effluent water (ie treated sewerage) destined for pumping out to sea. They spread it over a large piece of land. What is not consumed by plants, or evaporation, ends up in an underground aquifer.
So it "uses" a lot of water. But it's not using tap water.
Obviously this is not true for all courses. Hence the issue of "source", not "quantity" is material.
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
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.
Missed one: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Elizabeth+Lyle+Robbie+Stad...
great! have you seen https://openskimap.org/ and https://openskistats.org/... maybe change name to open golf map?
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.
Any plans to expand this to other parts of the world?
clicked on a website link for a course near me and it took me to a weird site wopraja
are we able to estimate water usage and other statistics from this data set?
The amount of water used is somewhat less important than what the source of the water is.
And it's important to understand that "using water" isn't like "using coal". In other words, while coal can be burned once, water is in a cycle that means water can be "used" infinitly.
But back to the source. A golf course near me takes effluent water (ie treated sewerage) destined for pumping out to sea. They spread it over a large piece of land. What is not consumed by plants, or evaporation, ends up in an underground aquifer.
So it "uses" a lot of water. But it's not using tap water.
Obviously this is not true for all courses. Hence the issue of "source", not "quantity" is material.