You bought the land. Now plan it.
Five acres or fifty, the work's the same: figure out where the shed goes, where the fence runs, where the dam catches the most runoff, and how the driveway curves so you don't have to back the trailer up. PLOT is built for that. Free to use. Runs in your browser, signup takes a moment.
Apply for beta accessWhat "acreage" actually means in practice
We use the word "acreage" the same way property listings do: anything from 5 acres up to a couple of hundred. The line above is "rural property" or "working farm"; the line below is "large block" or "suburban quarter-acre." If your property has its own well, its own septic, an unsealed driveway, or fencing you're responsible for maintaining, you're in the right place.
The planning decisions on this size of property are practical, not theoretical. Where does the new shed sit so the prevailing wind takes workshop dust away from the house? How far does the septic absorption trench need to be from the well? (See the septic setback guide for the answer.) Where do you put a dam so it catches the most runoff without flooding the bottom paddock?
PLOT doesn't answer those questions for you. It gives you the high-resolution satellite view and the right drawing tools so you can answer them quickly, change your mind cheaply, and arrive at a plan you'd defend to a contractor or planner.
What you can do in the first 15 minutes
- Type your address, or just your nearest town, into the "Where's your place?" box. If it's a rural lot with no street number, try the nearest named road and drag the map the rest of the way once you're close.
- Trace your property boundary. The area shows live as you draw, in your chosen units, so you can confirm what the title says.
- Drop a shed. Pick the Shed item and click where it goes. It gets a sensible default colour and label, and you can resize it by dragging a corner.
- Run a fence line. It follows your clicks smoothly, and the live length readout tells you how much wire you're ordering.
- Position a dam. Our advice: site it where two drainage lines converge, not at the lowest point, which is better kept clear for the overflow.
- Save. Plans sync to the cloud against your free account, so your phone in the paddock opens the same plan you started on the laptop at the kitchen table.
The Pro upgrade for acreage
Every tier runs on satellite imagery at 30 centimetres per pixel - close enough to count fence posts, see the tracks your cattle have worn around the bore, and distinguish a water tank from a silo. Satellite is not a Pro paywall here.
Every tier can share a plan with anyone via a view-only link. Pro adds the ability to invite people by email to edit alongside you.
Sharing plans with contractors and council
Any PLOT account can send a view-only link to anyone: a fencer, a council planner, an earthmoving contractor, your accountant. They open it straight in their browser, no account needed. To have someone edit alongside you, invite them by email instead - a Pro feature and up; whether they land on Can view or Can edit depends on their own PLOT subscription. Either way, you can turn a link off or remove someone's access at any time.