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 into the search hero. PLOT works for rural addresses worldwide. Global address search first, community-mapped fallback so the surveyed lot with no street number still finds you.
- Trace your property boundary. The polygon tool measures area live in acres (your default, since you're on this page) so you can confirm what the title says.
- Drop a shed. Pick the structure tool, click where it goes, drag to size. The tool knows it's a shed. default colour, default label, measurement that updates as you adjust.
- Run a fence line. The line tool with smooth-segment interpolation follows your clicks; the live length readout tells you how much wire you're ordering.
- Position a dam. Brand-voice opinion: site it where two ephemeral drainage lines converge, not at the lowest point. the lowest point is for the overflow.
- Save. Projects 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 Maxar Vivid 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.
Pro unlocks full version history and the ability to share any of your plans with anyone.
Sharing plans with contractors and council
Pro accounts can invite anyone to a map. Send the link to a fencer, a council planner, an earthmoving contractor, or your accountant. They open the editor on your plan with full layer access. If the recipient is on a Pro account they can edit alongside you - if they're on a Free account they view in read-only mode. Either way you can revoke the share at any time.