Farm mapping
Three packages, each with one published price for a standard single property. Every job is built in-office from the best available imagery and the records you send us, so there are no travel charges. If your farm needs more than a standard package covers, you get a fixed quote before you pay.
$750 one-off · excl GST
First draft within ten working days of payment
The complete farm map. Boundary to your fencelines, every paddock named and measured, and the files and area spreadsheet to go with it.
$1,250 one-off · excl GST
First draft within ten working days of payment
Everything in Baseline, plus effective area per paddock with agreed deductions, a detailed paddock schedule and four focused map sheets.
$2,450 then $890 a year while subscribed · excl GST
Online setup follows your approved map
Everything in Plus, kept current while you subscribe. A private online farm map, a live schedule and three hours of map updates each year.
The full breakdown
| What you get | Baseline $750 | Baseline Plus $1,250 | Baseline Forever $2,450 then $890/yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| The maps | |||
| Imagery map (PDF) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Clean map for printing and mark-up (PDF) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Focused map sheets | quoted | four | expanded set |
| Private interactive farm map | – | – | while subscribed |
| The boundary and the paddocks | |||
| Boundary mapped to your fencelines | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Paddocks named and numbered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fences, tracks, lanes and waterways | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Visible infrastructure | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| The numbers | |||
| Total property area | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gross area per paddock | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Effective area per paddock, deductions itemised | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Area spreadsheet | gross areas | detailed schedule | live online |
| Farm dashboard | – | – | ✓ |
| The files | |||
| Mapped data as GeoPackage, shapefiles and KML | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Yours to keep | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Keeping it right | |||
| Revisions within the agreed scope | 6 months | 6 months | 6 months |
| Map updates after that | quoted | quoted | three hours a year |
| Larger changes | quoted | quoted | quoted |
Focused maps
Baseline Plus includes four. Baseline Forever includes an expanded set, agreed with you. Each is a separate sheet built from the same underlying data, so paddock names and areas match across every map you get. Each focused map needs usable source data: imagery, records you supply or suitable published data. We confirm which ones are possible for your farm before you pay, and we never invent a layer to fill a package.
Mains, laterals and troughs from records you supply or that we can verify. Imagery cannot show buried pipes.
Irrigated areas, pivots and blocks from imagery and your records, with areas by type.
Application areas and exclusions from your records and imagery, for your own planning.
Lines, poles and supply points as visible or supplied.
Land broken into use types with areas for each.
Owned, leased and run-off blocks shown separately, as you confirm them.
Soil orders across the farm from suitable published soil data, with areas by paddock.
Drains and outfalls visible in imagery, plus buried drainage from your records.
Your fenced boundary over the LINZ title boundary, with the difference in hectares. A visual comparison of two datasets, not proof of ownership or encroachment.
Elevation, contours and slope are separate terrain add-ons, because they depend on suitable elevation data for your property.
See the terrain add-onsHow it works
Pick your paddocks off the map, or give us an address. Takes two minutes and it means we start with the right piece of land.
Prices are published. We check the boundary and imagery, book your delivery date, and you pay upfront before work starts. Several titles or a lease block? Ask for a call first.
From the best available imagery, plus anything you send us — old maps, a farm plan, waterline records.
Print it, scribble on it, photograph it, send it back. Tell us every fence we got wrong. This is the important step.
Six months of revisions within the agreed scope. We keep correcting until the map matches the farm you actually walk.
Steps 4 and 5 repeat as many times as you need for six months. That is the whole point — the first draft is never the finished map.
The fine print, up front
Nobody can, from imagery. A fence under a shelter belt is invisible; a race regrassed two years ago looks like a paddock. That is exactly why you get six months of revisions instead of one “revision round”. The draft is a starting point, and correcting it is part of the job, not an extra.
LINZ parcel boundaries are frequently offset from the fence on the ground — sometimes by tens of metres — because they derive from historic survey records of varying accuracy. We map what is actually fenced, and confirm it with you. A title vs fenceline comparison map can show both, with the difference in hectares.
It is accurate enough to run a farm on, plan from, and hand to your bank or consultant. It cannot be used for a boundary dispute or a subdivision. For that you need a licensed cadastral surveyor, and we will tell you so rather than sell you a map.
Every map is built by a founder. We check your boundary, the source data and our workload first, then send the payment link with a delivery date. If we are booked up we tell you the next available start rather than take your money and go quiet.
Ours are published prices for a standard single property: $750 for Baseline, $1,250 for Baseline Plus with effective paddock areas, and $2,450 for the first year of Baseline Forever, then $890 a year while subscribed. All prices exclude GST. If a property is unusually large, spread across several titles or needs a lot of preparation, we give you a fixed quote before you pay. There are no travel charges.
Your first draft will be with you within ten working days of payment, and we tell you which week your job is booked for before you pay. After the first draft you have six months to send corrections, so the total time depends partly on how quickly your mark-ups come back.
No. Every job is built in-office from aerial imagery, LINZ records and anything you supply, which is why there are no travel charges. It also means the revision loop matters — you are the one who knows where the fences really are.
Gross area is everything inside the paddock fence. Effective area is the part that actually grows grass — gross area less races, yards, bush, scrub, waterways and unusable steep faces. It is usually the number you want for a feed budget or a fertiliser plan. Baseline Plus and Forever give you both, with each deduction agreed and itemised so you can check it.
Yes. Every package delivers PDF maps and the mapped data as GeoPackage, shapefiles and KML, and they are yours to keep and use. If a Baseline Forever subscription ends, you receive a ZIP of your delivered files; the online map and updates stop until you reactivate.
No. It is not a cadastral survey. We map the boundary as it is fenced on the ground, which is what you need to run a farm, but it has no legal standing for disputes or subdivision. For that you need a licensed cadastral surveyor.
Tell us and we will fix it. Every map states the capture date of the imagery it was built from, so you know what you are looking at. Correcting things the imagery cannot show is exactly what the six-month revision window is for.
PDF maps in both an imagery version and a clean version for printing and marking up, the mapped data as GeoPackage, shapefiles and KML for Google Earth, and a spreadsheet of paddock areas. Baseline Plus adds effective areas, the detailed paddock schedule and any focused maps in your package.
Often, yes. We work remotely, so it depends on suitable imagery and data being available and licensed for your property. Send us the location and we will check before you pay.