Our Mission : To Provide a Single Source for All Golf Services and Information Channels.
By partnering with industry service units we can become a source for each of the Services and Channels.
RSS or Really Simple Syndication provides this vehicle for information exchange. In its simpliest
form it is a web page following specific formating guidelines and containing information.
A more complex RSS feed may also contain formatting instructions and styles, publishing info,
content scripting, messaging, advertising and much more.
Our first focus is to provide golf course mapping and to seek out major partners interested in
collaborating to provide the most up-to-date golf industry information including
course and product reviews, clubs, training, schools, news, photos, etc. Our plans for the future
are numerous and exciting and will be unvailed in time.
How do our partners benefit. For one, links in your RSS feeds bring visitors back to your web site.
To see this in action open the News panel. Our news sources include The PGA Tour,
Golf Publisher, Consumer Reports, The Golf Channel, About.com,
Sports Illustrated and more.
Golf Publisher aggregates its feeds from various parts of the world. It feeds are very well organized
but don't change too often.
When asked about what they wanted to see on golf course web sites respondants answered the following:
Course Location
, Directions
, Pro Shop Phone
, Tee Time or Phone
, Yardages
, Tournaments
, Clubs and Members
, Rates and Specials
, Course Layout
, Pin Positions
, Pro Shop
, Address
, Driving Range
, Carts (Pull, Power)
, Payment Methods
, Photos
, Designer,
, Head Pro
, Year Built
, Men's or Ladies Clubs.
When asked which services were important they replied:
Lodging
, Coffee
, Restaurants
, Food
, Pharmacy
, Auto Services
, Laundry Services
, Movies Entertainment
, Florists
, Gas Stations
, Golf Shops
, Bars
, Night Clubs
, Karaoke
, Fitness Clubs and Spas
, Theatres
, Amusement Parks
, Casinos.
So tell me which segment of the Golf Industry is your focus? Are you ready to feed me your updated information?
Once we add your site geo link information each time the map is repositioned or zoomed
we query our database for links to include. If your lat, lng coordinates are on the map
and a corner(NE, SE, SW, or NW) from your bounds are on the current
map your link is a candidate for display.The top candidates sorted by view count,
then click count will be listed. The maximum number of links returned will be
determined by the user. For non-member users, the minimum is currently 10 or
the number of links found.
While we will randomly select and provide equal exposure to free listings,
we will only show a limited number links at a time.
Keep in mind this is beta and a different algorithim may replace this.
Also, we are not ready just yet to use your marker imagery. So you'll have to be content
with our generic flag marker. But please include your marker and shadow URIs in your
meta tags.
geo-id:"USGolfers" --(32 chars) user defined
geo-base:"http://www.USGolfers.com/" -- (128 chars) your domain base must end with /
*geo-contact:"webmaster@USGolfers.com" -- (128 chars) your email
geo-title:"USGolfer Directory Map" -- (40 chars) A title for your site, we'll only display 40 characters
geo-description:"USGolfers, A Golf Course Directory Map" -- (300 chars) A description for your site.
*geo-image-logo:"images/logo.gif" -- (128 chars) Your logo if you have one.
*geo-image-adv-logo:"images/logo150x100.gif" -- (128 chars) Your advertisement logo (150wX100h pixels) if you have one.
*geo-image-marker:"images/usgmarker.png" -- (128 chars) Your marker if you have one.
*geo-image-marker-shadow:"images/usgshadow.png" -- (128 chars) Your marker if you have one.
*geo-item-type:"Golf Mapping Directory" -- (40 chars) user defined
*geo-event-type:"Golf" -- (128 chars) user defined
*geo-event-start:"2008-01-01 00:00" -- YYYY-MM-DD( hh:mm) Start date(GMT) for this event, h:m are optional
*geo-event-expires:"2009-01-01 00:00" -- YYYY-MM-DD( hh:mm) Expiration date(GMT) for this event, h:m are optional
geo-lat:"0.0" -- (float) latitude of your businesss
geo-lng:"0.0" -- (float) longitude of your businesss
geo-north:"0.0" -- (float) north latitude boundary in which your businesss will display
geo-east:"0.0" -- (float) east longitude boundary in which your businesss will display
geo-south:"0.0" -- (float) south latitude boundary in which your businesss will display
geo-west:"0.0" -- (float) west longitude boundary in which your businesss will display
starred * items are optional
quotes " delineate values - do not include in your file
More information:Your image_marker will be displayed as a 72X50 image with a hot spot
at (0, 71). Your image_marker_shadow will be displayed as a 72X80 image.
Please make markers that render well in those dimensions.
We'll provide more options time permitting.
We reserve the right to reject any information for any purpose.
If you provide an email we'll send you an explaination if we feel it warrents one.
Site :
To add/edit, the value for geo-base must match the beginning of Site.
Update your file before you add/edit.
We do not make changes to your files. It is up to you to modify your file with
the new meta data information. We use the values from your site.
Click here
to view and copy the meta content as we found from your page,
but instead with our current map coordinates and bounds.
Click on a colored Course flag to view course information in this pane.
Click on the large checkered Locator flag to see counts for each of the course classifications :
Public, Private, Semi-Private, Resort and Military.
When visible the Locator flag always displays at the map center. Moving this flag causes the map
to re-populate the view.
USGolfers greatly appreciates all the News providers and who generously offer their
valued content and commentary.
We understand and appreciate the value of this content. Our news parser in no way knowingly alters
any aspect of the news feed. Links provided by the feeder within the news feed may
take the user away from the USGolfers.com web site. The links to the news feed however,
should open a new window to the feeder for viewing.
While we peruse the web looking for interestingly valuble news feeds we appreciate additional
submissions from our readers. We will evaluate the link but cannot guarantee we will include your
submitted feed.
Documentation and support always seem to take the back seat. Sorry :(
Also this will be kind of my blog, until I implement one so check this for updates.
Close - Closes this panel.
I start with Close because it's also related to opening this panel.
It will re-open by clicking any flag.
Clicking on the logo image toggles this panel open and closed.
Home - Our Mission and some explanation of what we're doing and why.
Course - Shows course information.
When clicking :
The Courses Flag :This panel shows how many courses could display in the current map viewing area.
The Courses Flag is the checkered flag and it always displays map-center. When you move it the map
is repositioned making it again the map-center.
See Search for rules on how the map gets populated with courses.
You can clear groups of or all the courses on the map from here.
A Course Flag :The panel is populated with that Course's information.
The first time each information panel for the course is opened an Ajax call is made to the server.
The course panels may include the following information on file :
Course - General course information includes the number of holes (also displayed on the Flag for the Course),
Classification, Designer, YearBuilt, Phone, Tee Time Ph., Address, City, County, State and Country.
Rates - Course Rates and description.
Scorecard - Course yardage, par and handicap for each Tee Box. Tee Box colors are approximates.
Ammenities - The services associated with the course.
Rules - The course characteristics, schedule and it's rules.
More info - Accepted Credit Cards, Discounts, Food/Bar, Accomodations, Real Estate.
Search - This panel controls the results displayed on the map.
Don't ask me how it works. I haven't told myself yet. But, when I do I'll post it. :)
I think there's help in it's panel. You might want to look there.
:) I'm only playing with you.
I really do know how it works but I don't want to get into it all here. It is a pretty powerful search though.
Advertising - Nothing here yet. I'm looking for marketing partners that can serve up good,
inexpensive geographic and content(golf) related advertisements. I don't want to bombard users just
have it pay for my efforts.
News - A variety of News Feeders :
USGA(New), Golf Publisher(New), About.com, PGATour, The Golf Channel, Sports Illustrated, Golf Gear, Consumers review.
Send me others you'd like included. Or wait for me to find them.
