There is a regular golf course, 18 hole or 9 hole where one needs to use a driving club (and even may have a separate driving range for practice), miniature golf where it's all about putting challenges with a putter club, but what about simulated golf? Even simulated golf seems to have two types: ones that are completely computer driven where there's no "normal" golf ball (and thus small building is sufficient; example: X-Golf), and there are even half computer driven. These types you drive a real ball into netting that's actually several hundred yards away and a computer will compute where your ball went, so you still choose and feel your real club hitting a real ball, but the course and everything else is simulated (example: TopGolf). This type, it almost feels like real golf without the walking. As there is real netting and there is a "real" course for the ball to fly, this can take several acres of land but nowhere near as much as a real golf course. I suspect these two should get iD templates at some point as they are chain businesses (X-Golf and TopGolf). As far as I know they're probably the only two businesses out there dealing with golf simulations but there's currently inconsistent tagging for these - they're clearly not real golf courses and also definitely not miniature golf in the normal sense... asked 30 Jul '21, 17:11 gpserror edited 30 Jul '21, 17:24 |
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answered 31 Jul '21, 12:35 Kovoschiz edited 31 Jul '21, 12:36 |
@Kovoschiz amusement arcade is roughly an en-gb synonym of adult_gaming_centre (roughly because at least in UK they do (did?) contain coin slot games which can be used by children
Indeed you can search for "topgolf" in nominatim and people are tagging this chain business all sorts of different ways despite their layout between franchises are pretty much the same - looks like a tall rectangular building whose broad side is facing a driving range. X-Golf franchisees seem to have a bit more flexibility on how they are put together as it's all indoors in a building.
For one thing I will need to fix the one X-Golf that I put in, leisure=golf_course now seems quite wrong for it... For now I'll use arcade/golf...