The European Squash Federation has officially adopted the Squash Players App (SPA) interactive map as the definitive, authoritative source of squash venue data across Europe.

The map, powered by crowdsourcing, features more than 3,400 venues in Europe, and approaching 7,000 worldwide. Each venue displays essential details such as location, contact information, website and (if available) the number of courts. The map is the only collated date source on global squash infrastructure available.

By leveraging the power of crowdsourcing, the SPA ensures that the venue data remains accurate and continues to expand. While basic information is sourced from Google Maps, all squash-specific details are contributed and refined by a global community of players and enthusiasts – the most passionate and reliable information source.

The map, which can be viewed at europeansquash.com/squash-finder, now enables data searches at many different scales; by individual venue, county/state, country, region and continent. Each country now has its own national map and database.

Players and local and national squash federations are encouraged to use the map, and its accompanying mobile app, as their official register of squash facilities. By logging in for free and easily improving the data relating to their local venues, all squash stakeholders can help the sport accurately catalogue its biggest collective asset, its facilities.

“The quality of the data is only as good as the global squash community chooses it to be,” said Ross Gerring, founder of the Squash Players App.

“The data may never be perfect, but perfection is a journey, never a destination. With the global squash community behind us, we’re able to deliver the best available squash facilities data to the world, and at a fraction of the cost of traditional market research.

“We were impressed from the get-go with how the ESF got behind our initiative. Our partnership underscores our shared commitment to making high-quality, up-to-date information about squash facilities freely accessible to players, administrators and newcomers to the sport.”

ESF President, Thomas Troedsson, added: “The ESF recognises the value of good quality data about our sport, both to those who administer it, those who love the sport, and to those who want to give it a go for the first time. This has never been more important than in the run-up to the Olympics in 2028 in Los Angeles. We’re delighted to be a supporter of, and contributor to, this initiative.”

Despite the map’s broad coverage, SPA founder Gerring emphasised there is still much to do, urging the squash world to get involved: “There are still nearly 1,000 venues in the world where we don’t know how many squash courts they have. But with the global community behind us, we’ll get there!”

For more information on the map, head to europeansquash.com.

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