TIER 01 · First draft within ten working days of payment
Baseline
Your farm, mapped properly and honestly — the whole property, every paddock, from the best imagery available.
$750 one-off · excl GST
We check the boundary and imagery and book your job into a week first. Payment is in full, upfront, before work starts. 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.
Everything included
What you receive.
- Imagery map and a clean non-imagery map, as print-ready PDFs
- Farm boundary mapped to your fencelines and confirmed with you
- Paddocks named and numbered to your convention
- Gross area for every paddock, plus the total property area
- Fences, tracks, lanes, waterways and visible infrastructure
- Mapped data as GeoPackage, shapefiles and KML for Google Earth
- Spreadsheet of paddock areas
- Six months to send corrections to what we mapped, within the agreed scope
Not in this package
- Effective paddock areas
- Focused map sheets
- Online interactive map
Each of these is available — either by stepping up a package or as a quoted add-on. We’ll never quietly leave something out and hope you don’t notice.
Add-ons
- Elevation and contours$250
- Terrain analysis bundle$450
- Farm Plan Data Pack$550
Terrain products need suitable elevation data for your property; we check before you pay. The Farm Plan Data Pack is confirmed once the layers your advisor needs are agreed.
Side by side
How Baseline compares.
| 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 |
How it works
Five steps. You drive two of them.
- 01
You tell us which farm
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.
- 02
You order, or we talk first
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.
- 03
We build the first draft
From the best available imagery, plus anything you send us — old maps, a farm plan, waterline records.
- 04
You mark it up
Print it, scribble on it, photograph it, send it back. Tell us every fence we got wrong. This is the important step.
- 05
We fix it. Then again.
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.
Questions about this package.
What does a farm map cost in New Zealand?
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.
How long does it take?
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.
Do you visit the farm?
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.
What is the difference between gross and effective area?
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.
Do I keep the maps and data?
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.
Can I use this map for a boundary dispute or a subdivision?
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.
What if my fences have moved since the imagery was taken?
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.
What files do I actually get?
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.
Can you map a farm outside New Zealand?
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.
Not sure this is the right one?
Baseline Plus — $1,250
Everything in Baseline, plus effective area per paddock with agreed deductions, a detailed paddock schedule and four focused map sheets.
TIER 03Baseline Forever — $2,450
Everything in Plus, kept current while you subscribe. A private online farm map, a live schedule and three hours of map updates each year.