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Golf Golf Baby field guide

How OpenStreetMap course matches become publishable evidence

Follow the boundary from a broad R2 course extract to an exact two-source course page.

OpenStreetMap is valuable global discovery data, but an OSM feature does not receive an indexable page merely because it is tagged as a golf course. Golf Golf Baby pairs it with one approved independent registry and keeps the observations separate.

1. Start from the governed archive

The source extract is retained in private R2 with its checksum, retrieval date, licence and scope. Raw objects are not served as pages.

2. Require the same normalised name

The OSM course name and the independent registry name must be exactly equal after deterministic normalisation. Similar, translated and suffix-stripped names do not pass.

3. Require a bounded mapped location

Latitude and longitude must each differ by no more than 0.001 degrees. A nearby facility with the same name remains a different record.

4. Keep country evidence honest

The independent registry must supply a country. When OSM does not repeat a country tag, the page marks that source value as missing instead of inventing agreement.

5. Recheck rights and source links

Both registry records must remain approved for public commercial use and retain a source link, source date and licence before the gateway returns the page.

Keep the evidence boundary visible

Golf Golf Baby publishes documented identity and location evidence. It does not sell tee times, accept paid ranking placement or claim that a mapped facility is currently open to visitors.

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