For golf courses
Every18 already carries a free page for all 12,627 golf courses in the United States, yours included, built from public mapping and public aerial photography. Three things are built on the same data and sold: a 3D flyover you can embed on your own site, a licence to use your course map, and slope maps of your greens.
Buying this changes nothing editorial
Every18's course ratings and rankings are editorial and are not for sale. Buying a flyover, a licence or a set of green sheets does not change your quality score, your difficulty score, your position in any list, or whether your page is offered to Google. There is no paid placement here and there will not be. If that is what you are shopping for, this is the wrong site.
See it before you read about it
One course is built and public: Arcadia Bluffs Golf Club. 18 holes on the real landform, with every measurement and every limitation of the method stated on the page.
Arcadia Bluffs Golf Club flyover →One course, honestly. There is no portfolio yet and no client list, and a page that implied otherwise would be lying to you on the way in.
Offer 1 of 3
Flyover embed
A hole-by-hole 3D flyover of your course, built from the public elevation survey and the public aerial photography of your property, and served as an embed you drop into your own site.
What it costs
$199 setup, then $29 a month
Per course. Cancel whenever; the embed stops, nothing else changes.
What you get
- Your 18 holes on the real landform, flown tee to green in order, with the camera holding the tee-to-green bearing so the rise and fall actually read on screen.
- A per-hole table: measured yardage, tee and green elevation, the change between them, and the plays-like distance that change implies.
- One iframe. It lives on your domain, on your page, inside your own navigation — not on a directory you do not control.
- A public proof page on Every18 as well, if you want one, which is where golfers searching your course will find it.
- The files and the page stay current with the source data: when USGS or USDA republish over your property, the flyover is rebuilt.
What it is not
- This is not drone video. No camera goes to your property and no pilot is booked. If you want cinematic footage — your flags, your flowers, a low pass over the clubhouse at golden hour — that is a genuinely different product and the vendors below sell it at roughly ten times this price. Buy that instead; it is worth what it costs.
- The picture is USDA NAIP: 0.6 m per pixel, flown on about a three-year cycle. It shows the course as it was on the flight date. A bunker complex rebuilt since then will not appear, and nothing at ground level — people, carts, pins — is visible at that resolution.
- It is not a yardage or GPS service, and it does not integrate with your tee sheet, your POS or your app.
- It is not exclusive. The underlying data is public and the course geometry is OpenStreetMap; anyone may build the same thing.
What has to be true for your course
USGS 3DEP lidar over the property and mapped hole geometry. Both are checked before anything is quoted — coverage is wide but it is not universal, and where only coarse elevation exists we will say so rather than ship a soft-looking landform.
Ask about flyover embed →Offer 2 of 3
Course map licensing
The vector course map and the graded aerial of your course, at print resolution, licensed for your scorecard, your signage, your website and your merchandise.
What it costs
$350 once
Per course. Perpetual, for the club’s own use. No renewal, no per-impression counting.
What you get
- The vector course layout — every fairway, green, bunker and tee in its surveyed position — as print-resolution files.
- The graded NAIP aerial of the property with the routing drawn over it, in the same set.
- A written licence covering the club’s own use: scorecards, signage, yardage books, the website, tournament programmes, hats, towels, prints sold in your own shop.
- Reruns at no charge when the source imagery is refreshed, or when a renovation changes the routing and OpenStreetMap catches up.
What it is not
- It is not an exclusive licence, and it cannot be. The geometry is OpenStreetMap data under the Open Database Licence — anyone is free to derive the same map, and we would be selling you something we do not own if we promised otherwise.
- Every published use has to carry the OpenStreetMap credit. That is the licence’s condition, not our preference, and it is a line of small type on the artwork.
- It is not a survey. These are mapped positions good enough for a scorecard or a wall, not for construction, drainage design or a boundary dispute.
- It is not hand-illustrated art. If you want a painted, stylised rendering with your clubhouse drawn in, that is an illustrator’s commission and this is not it.
What has to be true for your course
Mapped course geometry, which exists for most courses and which we will show you before you buy. If your course is mapped badly, the honest answer is that the map will look wrong, and we will tell you that instead of taking the money.
Ask about course map licensing →Offer 3 of 3
Green topography sheets
A slope map of every green on your course, measured from the USGS 3D Elevation Program’s public lidar surface and coloured on the gradients that actually matter to a golf green.
What it costs
$249 for an 18-green set
$149 for nine. Per course, one-time. Reshot free when new lidar lands.
What you get
- One sheet per green: slope percent across the surface, classed at 2, 3, 4 and 6% — the bands that separate pinnable from working-limit from run-off.
- A contact sheet with every green side by side, and the per-green median slope in a table.
- Two medians for each green, not one: the whole mapped green, and the same green with 4 m eroded off the edge to drop the collar and the fall-offs. Those numbers differ a lot and quoting only the flattering one would be dishonest.
- The date of the lidar flight the sheet was made from, on the sheet.
- Every green. Your course page on this site publishes the first two as a sample so you can see the work before you buy it; the set is the other sixteen, the contact sheet, the medians table and the flight date.
What it is not
- This is not a green book, and it is not close to one. StrackaLine, GolfLogix and PuttView sell surveyed, printed green-reading books at roughly $30 to $55 a copy, marketed on millimetre and centimetre accuracy. Those are made with dedicated survey equipment on your greens. This is made from a 1-metre public lidar grid whose published specification is 10 cm of vertical error. It resolves the shape of a green. It does not resolve a putt.
- There is no break, no putt line, no green speed and no stimp anywhere in it. Slope percent is the only quantity measured. Nothing here says where a ball goes.
- The mapped green is the green complex, not the putting surface — it carries the collar and the fall-offs, which is exactly why both medians are quoted. On the Arcadia Bluffs Golf Club proof the median across 18 greens is 4.70% over the whole mapped green and 3.48% over the core. Read the wrong one and you are wrong by a third.
- It is not exclusive, and it does not take anything off the public site. The two sample greens stay on your course page whether you buy or not, the elevation numbers stay free for every course, and the lidar underneath is public data anyone can process. What you are paying for is the work of making the full set, not access to a secret.
- It is a snapshot. Lidar flights are years apart, and a green rebuilt after the flight is shown as it was before. The flight date is printed on the sheet so you can check.
- Where a competition has adopted the USGA and R&A Model Local Rule G-11, players may carry only an approved yardage book with minimal green detail. A slope sheet is not that, and this is not sold as something to hand a field.
What has to be true for your course
3DEP lidar at 1 m over the property. Where only 3 m or 10 m data exists the greens are a handful of pixels across and the sheets are not worth making — we will check first and decline rather than sell you noise.
Ask about green topography sheets →Taking more than one
The flyover and the map licence together: the $199 setup is waived, so it is $350 up front and $29 a month. There is no volume discount to offer beyond that — this is a one-person operation and pretending to a rate card would be theatre.
What everyone else charges
Published prices, each read from the vendor's own pricing page on 30 August 2026. They are here so the numbers above can be judged rather than taken on faith. Follow the links — vendors change prices, and these will go stale.
| Product | Price | Vendor |
|---|---|---|
| 18-hole drone flyover, flight and raw footage only | $1,499 | ManiaHD |
| 18-hole drone flyover, fully produced | $3,098 | ManiaHD |
| Drone flyover, shot and edited, per hole | $150 | MLP Video |
| 18-hole 3D flyover video | $2,500–$4,800 | Maps4Golf |
| 18-hole static 3D course map | $700–$850 | Maps4Golf |
| Course data licence, per activated course, per year | $500 | Golf Intelligence |
Every18 is not affiliated with any vendor listed. They are named because naming them is the only way a comparison means anything, and because for filmed drone work they are the right thing to buy.
Things a sales page usually leaves out
- No turnaround is quoted. The pipeline has been run end to end on exactly one course. Quoting a delivery time measured once, on the course it was written for, would be a guess dressed as a commitment. The first courses through will be told what it actually took.
- There are no testimonials on this page. There are no customers yet to quote, and no club's logo appears here because no club is a customer.
- Nothing is bought on this site. There is no checkout and no card form. Everything starts as an email, and quoting only happens after your course has been checked against the source data.
- Coverage is not universal. These products are built on USGS and USDA programmes, not on a survey crew. Where the public data is thin over your property, the answer is that we cannot build it well — and that is the answer you will get.
Talk to us
Send the course name. We will check the elevation and imagery coverage over your property and come back with what can honestly be built and what it costs — including, when that is the answer, that it cannot.
Elevation: USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP), public domain · Imagery: USDA NAIP / USGS, public domain · Course features: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every18 is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting for any golf course, club, association or governing body named on this page.