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Deerslayer, on 11 November 2008 - 01:25 PM, said:
I make yardage books for my son and his golf team. I use a combination of google earth, yahoo maps, mapquest and geo science for sattellite photos depending on which of that particular course is best. I keep all my files, so alot of the courses they play I already have a book for. I personalize each one also. Here are a couple of examples and I will also show you a print layout that you can print all 18 holes, with a green layout above. Printing double side on cardstock, you can make an 18hole booklet on five sheets of paper. Finished product is smaller than a scorecard, fits easily in your back pocket AND plenty of room to write your OWN notes for the hole as well as the green.
Here is the layout sheet to layout and SAVE AS AN IMAGE FILE. You then use Microsoft Publisher and insert the one picture on page one and insert and the next on page two and it will be rotated upside down. When you print them, they print front back like the master I show and you construct the book by folding the center card (hole 9) and then 10 and so on. It will make a perfect book printed front and back with the corresponding green above the hole diagram. This one, instead of using google earth, I called the scorecard manufacturer and that did the course and they sent me files of the holes they printed minutely on the scorecard. I blew them up to make the books.
These books finished end up being 3-1/4" wide by 5" long and just over 1/4" thick when you use card stock.
NOTICE THE CORRESPONDING GREEN ABOVE THE HOLE IS NUMBERED ON THE MASTER SHEET so when stapled together, you have the right green above the right hole.
You will notice ONLY #9 Green is printed above the #9 Hole. There is a pattern that you will see when you put the book together
Here is what the google earth or satellite captures that I make look like (different course)
Here is a cover I do for them. Everyone has a cover with their name
You cut down the center between the holes and trim the left over top or bottom. I will attach a quick sketch how to put the book together with only 3 staples
Here are some bad phone pictures of the finished product:
Here is the layout sheet to layout and SAVE AS AN IMAGE FILE. You then use Microsoft Publisher and insert the one picture on page one and insert and the next on page two and it will be rotated upside down. When you print them, they print front back like the master I show and you construct the book by folding the center card (hole 9) and then 10 and so on. It will make a perfect book printed front and back with the corresponding green above the hole diagram. This one, instead of using google earth, I called the scorecard manufacturer and that did the course and they sent me files of the holes they printed minutely on the scorecard. I blew them up to make the books.
These books finished end up being 3-1/4" wide by 5" long and just over 1/4" thick when you use card stock.
NOTICE THE CORRESPONDING GREEN ABOVE THE HOLE IS NUMBERED ON THE MASTER SHEET so when stapled together, you have the right green above the right hole.
You will notice ONLY #9 Green is printed above the #9 Hole. There is a pattern that you will see when you put the book together
Here is what the google earth or satellite captures that I make look like (different course)
Here is a cover I do for them. Everyone has a cover with their name
You cut down the center between the holes and trim the left over top or bottom. I will attach a quick sketch how to put the book together with only 3 staples
Here are some bad phone pictures of the finished product:
I love the work that you've done here, I'd love to be able to make my own yardage books, the only problem is that I live in very small town and the google maps pictures of bothof the courses in my town do not show up very well. Any suggestion about where to look to get good quality images like you've found?
