building a fantasy/upcoming course

[combdaddy]

Hi all,

I've been tasked with building an upcoming course that would be playable on TGC 2019 before it is being built as both a pitch to investors as well as conceptually to see feasibility if the land can actually be used as a golf course and what the user experience would be like.  I started building on OSM only to have my entire body of work deleted by some keyboard warrior and blacklisted for a month for "Vandalism".  I've seen on some prior threads elsewhere that Chad was working on separating the OSM file for offline use.  My thought is that I can use JOSM instead of direct through the website and save "offline" without ever uploading the data to Open Street Maps.  Doing this would make sure they only have existing buildings and that I can create and save without hurting anyone?  For the life of me I can't find the sequence in Chad's Tool that allows me that option.  I'm not a noob to the tool or to building courses, just can't find a way to do it.  HELP!

[BaconJunkie1]

combdaddy so you met my OSM buddies? Here I'll move over and make room for you on the bench. They've got me in the past too while I was learning, in fact a few times.   

As you found out, you won't be able to "build" up the area on OSM even temporarily. They do not take kindly to you placing things that aren't there or deleting garbage/old splines and redoing them even if what you did is a vast improvement, they will revert your work there and other courses/work you've done. Just grab the land/plot you intend to use and do the work in the 2019 designer as best that you can. This video shows exactly what to do, it's a tad old but you do not have to export the OSM plot file anymore, Chads will get it for you. Mask off with the Red brush the area you do not intend to use to keep the file/object size down.

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