Property Designer
Draw your place from above. Set the boundary, work out the acreage, and lay out barns, arenas, paddocks, fencing, gates, water and trailer access to scale before anybody digs a post hole.
Street addresses are not looked up here. Your location is used in this browser to move the map and is not saved or sent to us; map tiles for wherever you look come from Esri, the same as when you pan there yourself.
How to use this
- Find your place. Press Use my location, or type a town or ZIP code above. Zoom in until you can see your buildings.
- Draw the boundary. Press Draw boundary, tap each corner, press Set boundary. You get the acreage and the distance around.
- Add a building. Pick one under Object and press Add. It lands in the middle of the map.
- Place it. Drag the middle of anything to move it. A building has two marks: on one corner turns it, and the opposite corner grows or shrinks it. A round pen has one mark on its edge, which sets how far across it is. A gate has one at each end, to swing it into the fence line. Paddocks, fences and driveways are reshaped by dragging any of their own points.
- Zoom in to turn or size something small. The marks sit just outside the shape, so they are there at every zoom — but zoomed a long way out a 12 ft stall is only a few pixels across, and its two marks end up almost on top of each other and on top of the building. Press near the middle at that zoom and you will move it rather than turn it. Zoom in and the marks separate, and each one is easy to take hold of. Moving works at any zoom.
- Gates are openings. Choose Gate, pick the width — 4 ft for a walk-through, 12 for a tractor, 16 for a truck and trailer — and drag either end to swing it into the fence line.
- Everything is labelled. Each item carries its name on the plan, and each kind of thing has its own colour, so a hay store is not just another brown rectangle. Arenas ask whether they are indoor or outdoor and say so. Two switches decide what is written on the drawing: Show names on the plan takes the names off altogether, for shapes and colours only or to read the aerial underneath, and Show measurements on the plan puts the sizes beside the names, for a plan somebody can build from. The object list below always names everything, whatever the map is showing.
- Change your mind. Undo and redo work throughout. Nothing is saved or sent — it lives in this tab until you close it.
Measured off the map: good enough to plan with, not a survey. Check setbacks, easements and permits with the county before anybody digs.
Choose an object above and press Add; it lands in the middle of the map. Drag it to move it, or drag a corner to turn it. Fences and traced shapes are drawn point by point instead, and their corners reshape rather than turn. Draw boundary works that way too: tap each corner, then press Set boundary. Drag the marked corners of a barn or arena to turn it or to size it; on something small the two marks sit close together, so zoom in before turning a stall. Keyboard: Escape cancels, Delete removes the selected object, Command or Control with Z undoes, with Shift to redo, with D duplicates.
Measurements
Objects
Nothing placed yet. Choose an object above and select Add, or draw the property boundary first.
Selected object
Background image
Load an aerial photograph, a drone shot, a survey or an existing plan to trace over. The image never leaves your browser. It is not uploaded, and its embedded information — including any GPS position your phone or drone recorded — is stripped before it is displayed.
Leave that unticked for a survey drawing or a floor plan. An image with no real-world position cannot be measured against, and stretching one over a map produces a scale that looks authoritative and is invented. A proper two-point calibration is planned for a later version.
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Drag the four blue corner handles on the map to line the image up against something you can check — a fence line, a corner, a road. Ticking Lock the image in place removes the handles so you cannot nudge it by accident while you trace over it; it does not stop you moving anything you have drawn.
Move a corner with the keyboard
Focus a corner and use the arrow keys to move it five feet at a time. Hold Shift for fifty feet. The new position is announced each time. This does the same thing as dragging the blue handles on the map.
Saving, printing and exporting
Saving works, and a free account can use it. Version history, printing and exporting are part of the subscription and are not built yet: pressing one says what it will do, and nothing is sent anywhere.
A planning sketch, not a drawing anybody builds from.
This tool answers the questions that come before a builder or an excavator does. How many acres is the place actually. Will a truck and a four-horse trailer turn around between the barn and the fence. How much fencing is that paddock. Where does the arena have to go for the water line to reach it.
It does not answer questions that need an engineer, a surveyor or the county. Every measurement here is worked out from shapes you drew by eye over a map, and it inherits every bit of the error in that. It is not a survey, it is not an engineering or architectural drawing, and it settles no boundary, setback or permit question. Before anything is built, a licensed surveyor establishes where your lines are and the county planning office says what may go where.
Related: Pasture Rotation Planner for stocking and rotation, Hay Calculator for winter feed, and First Horse Annual Cost for what a place costs to run.
A property plan says a lot about where you live.
Laid out together, a boundary, a house, the gates, the emergency access route, the well and the septic field describe your place precisely enough that it is worth being careful with. That is why nothing is kept unless you ask for it: until you save, your plan is held in this browser tab, it is never written to your device, and it is gone when you refresh.
A saved plan is private to the account that made it, and it is not shown to other members. Lazy K administrators can read anything saved to an account, plans included — that is set out in full on the member privacy page, and it is the same for every record the site keeps for you. There is no sharing between members, automatic or otherwise.
Whatever you do, do not write gate codes, alarm codes or lock combinations into a label. A plan already shows where the gates are; it should not also say how to open them.