Recent content by Js_TechX

Google Earth (desktop version) can show elevation profile AND actual (as crow flies) distance with elevation compensated distance. Just click "Tools/Ruler" and select "Use elevation profile" in the "Path" tab. Gives a pretty good representation though might be less reliable if lotsa trees. If u...

4.00 star(s) Great mix of open & technical holes Well maintained course w/ a good mix of open holes with some trees/obstacles and others with many providing a good challenge to both beginners and pros. All short tees are concrete while long tees are a mix of concrete or flypad. The course has multiple...

3.00 star(s) Beginner friendly & good deuce challenge for others Nice beginner friendly course, mostly open, good deuce challenge for more experienced players. The off-fairway rough is not bad in most areas of the course. The course is in pretty good shape for being so new. The course map helps to navigate...

3.00 star(s) Nice technical short course Good mix of technical & semi-open holes, disc placement helps more than big-arm/distance throws. Terrain & small elevation changes are well integrated into hole layouts. No poison ivy noticed anywhere on the course & stray discs easily found as underbrush is...

Something I prefer to see in any course maps is that they are "to scale" and reasonably accurate from the birdseye view. Having North at the top is also good but not required. Many are done that way and if so can be GPS-enabled for use in any app that supports KMZ-files. The KMZ-file (I expect u...

Per the mention of using a smartphone for GPS-point collections, u can use an app called "Locus Free" for Android phones which allows saving them in a folder (per course/date/etc) and export as a KML/KMZ-file. Though most smartphones are only accurate 10-50ft, u can tighten that up if the phone...

Hey ThomasOrion, I recently installed the uDisc app to try out. It does have some nice features tho I think the disc distance feature needs ability to touch/pinpoint the start & end points on the screen/map as opposed to rely on where u stand using a smartphone GPS w/ 10-50ft inaccuracy...

Perhaps the Google Earth app might have better distance or "path" measurements & likely takes elevation into account too. I used this app method to measure a 530ft drive using satellite view as I could see the tee and landing spot on the fairway edge (BTW it was a downhill drive on a mountain...

Informative thread, nice posts. Saw the hockey puck mentioned a few times but none as a puck-on-a-string. Played in Montreal on a visit, lost a disc about 40ft up in a pine (big christmas tree), the locals loaned me someones puck-on-a-string, worked great with a reasonably well placed throw...

Hey superberry, I use a freeware utility called "Greenfish Icon Editor" (see link below) to create any icons I don't have. You can also copy/paste a 64x64pix graphic into it & edit parts you want to be transparent. I made a quick DG-basket icon if it comes thru (see link to PNG-file at end of...

Wow pineappaloupe! That is some nice detail. Obviously I've been busy over the summer & missed out on the timing of this thread. That aside, I can share something I did for further ideas (see link). https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-xRleCZYzDsc1lZYTJWUUhVVjQ/edit I have done similar for other...

I presume you're commenting on my long post (Tfire25). Yeah it's long but never easy to post something loaded w/ technical content in a short blurb w/o losing context. The most time spent was to create the graphic map of a local course I play with an outdated DGCR map. Taking that map to a...

Interesting feedback from both (Speedly & Dave242). I have taken a look at both options presented and agree they have some merit. Of concern is the bigger picture in managing course change updates (of course this applies to any method) and GPS inaccuracies that so many commonly used devices have...

I have about 2 years seriously playing DG on roughly 15 or so courses, some played multiple times (maybe 100 or so rounds thus far). I find the DGCR site quite helpful to both identify courses in an area and often provide a course map to give an idea of the layout and where to park. Many...