The course map
/app/mapDrawing your zones, or having them drafted from an aerial photo, and what the map is good for.
The map turns the course into named zones — greens, tees, bunkers, fairways, the nursery, the wash pad — so a job can be attached to a place and you can see what's happening where.
Putting it on your actual property
With a Mapbox token on your install and your course's coordinates in Settings, this screen becomes your real ground, from above, with the terrain in it — the same two numbers the weather and the time clock already use. Without either it stays a schematic: eighteen glyphs on a grid that show where the work is without pretending to be your property.
- 1Put your latitude and longitude in Settings if they aren't there already.
- 2Frame the property — turn it so the routing reads the way you think about it, and tilt it until the ground has shape. Where you leave it is where it opens tomorrow.
- 3Pick a zone from 'Put these on the ground' and click where it is. One click each; an eighteen takes about ten minutes and only has to be done once.
- 4Switch to contours instead of imagery if your satellite pass is older than your last renovation.
Satellite imagery is whatever Mapbox last flew over you, and at a rural course that can be a few years old. If you rebuilt the bunkers on 14 you may still see the old ones. Your zones, your work and your crew are current; the ground underneath them is a photograph.
What moves, and why
- A green under a restricted-entry interval carries an arc that closes as the hours run down. That one is information, not decoration — it looks different at noon than it did at eight.
- Where each of the crew clocked in this morning. Not where they are now: we record a location once, when somebody presses the button, and we don't track anybody through the day.
- 'Fly the course' pans hole to hole across today's work. Touch the map and it stops immediately.
- If you've asked your device for reduced motion, none of it moves. The numbers and the markers are all still there.
Drawing it by hand
- 1Open the Course map.
- 2Add a zone, name it, and say what kind of feature it is.
- 3Repeat for the parts of the course you actually schedule work against. You do not need every square foot.
Having it drafted from a photo
- 1Upload an aerial image of the course — a satellite screenshot is fine.
- 2Fairway reads it and proposes a set of zones with names and types.
- 3Go through the proposal. Accept what's right, fix what's close, delete what's wrong.
- 4Nothing is added to your map until you accept it.
Reading a golf course off an aerial photo is genuinely hard, and every proposal is labelled as a guess. Treat it as a first draft that saves you typing, not as a survey. Anything it wasn't sure about says so.
What it's for
- Attaching jobs to places, so 'bunkers' becomes 'the greenside bunkers on 4 and 7'.
- Seeing where today's work is concentrated.
- Giving a new hire something to orient by that isn't a hand-drawn sheet in the shop.
Questions
Do I need the map for anything else to work?
No. Everything else works without it. Zones just make jobs and reports more specific.
Does it use my own aerial photo or a map service?
Both, for different things. Drafting zones reads the photo you upload, which stays in your course's storage and is sent nowhere else. The map underneath is satellite imagery from Mapbox, fetched by your browser when the screen is open — which means Mapbox sees that somebody looked at your course's coordinates. Without a Mapbox token on the install nothing is fetched from anywhere and you get the schematic instead.
Can the crew see where each other are?
They can see where people clocked in this morning, which is on the map for anyone who can open it. Nothing is recorded after that moment — there is no live location, no breadcrumb trail and no way to ask the app where somebody is right now.
Why does the map look nothing like my course?
You're seeing the schematic, which is a placeholder rather than your property. It means either the install has no Mapbox token or Settings has no coordinates for your course. Both are quick fixes and the page tells you which one is missing.
Tell us what's missing and we'll write it. Help that doesn't cover the thing you came for isn't help.