Using OpenStreetMaps to design a Disc Golf Course
This short guide was published on Medium and YouTube by Mapbox. It doesn't seem useful except as a quick overview.
Frustratingly, the OsmAnd app limits you to 10 downloads (of maps and updates) so you either need to use the F-droid FOSS version, or use a work-around where you can download map indexes to your PC and transfer them manually to your phone.
Disc Golf Course as a Map Feature[edit]
There is a whole category of Leisure activities which are can be mapped and depicted in OSM. One is Golf Course and so naturally there is also Disc Golf Course. See the overview page in the OSM wiki for Disc golf which references the tags used. Caution - the wiki is very old - authored around 2012. So despite thousands of courses, there doesn't seem to be any clear resolution on how to map them.
- leisure: disc golf course tag in the OSM wiki for details on elements and instructions for mapping disc golf courses in OSM.
- the leisure:golf course tag is for mapping golf courses.
- Here's a (BAD?) example of course mapped on OSM. I say "bad" because there is one noticeable problem right away: baskets and tee pads use the same symbol. There's an OSM editor called JOSM, and a style created for it that marks features with nicer svgs[1] but I'm not clear on whether those markings only appear to the editor, or are somehow embedded in the OSM node? Whatever the case may be, the 'tag info' site shows that there are ~2,137 disc golf courses named in OSM, so I'm bound to find a good example.
Mobile Mapping[edit]
You really can't make a map until you've collected detailed GPS coordinates. Something like a Garmin eTrex Vista HCx ($40 on eBay), GPSMAP 62s ($150 on eBay), GPSMAP 79sc ($350 at WestMarine) handheld GPS unit, or your mobile phone could work well.
You can actually use OsmAnd to record tracks and edit OSM. See mobile mapping with osmand2 and mobile mapping with gpslogger.
