USGolfers.com

Our Mission : To Provide a Single Source for All Golf Services and Information Channels.

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What do such lofty goals entail? We cannot and would not attempt to manage every aspect of the golf service industry. However, 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. We also provide RSS feeds which partners can publish on their sites. One of these feeds is an IFrame providing a limited map view but one in which you can specify a starting course or geographic location and where your visitors can see all USGolfers course locations on the map.

For those that request assistance, our team provides html, web and database development, and graphics design services at very competitive rates.

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 what 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?

City(,ST) :

LAT49 is the next generation in Map Marketing. Jump on now and stake your claim here.

This is a Beta to provide links to sites with meta defined map profiles.

Map Center {Lat :, Lng :}
Bounds {North :, East :, South :, West :}
Read the steps to add your link marker.

Read how it works. View Geo meta descriptions and sample

Sample Information

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.

Golf News Feeds

USGA Golf Publisher About PGA Tour Golf Channel S.I. Golf Gear C.r.

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.

Help - Don't ask, I'm not going (t)here.