Plotlay
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01 Site plan · real drawing, real aerial
Put the drawing
on the ground.
Pin any floor plan, site plan, PDF or DXF to aerial imagery, then measure it, mark it up and issue a scaled plan — no CAD licence. Take the same map to site on a phone to verify the asset register, and send the results straight into your GIS or Power BI.
Free in your browser. No card. Or just open the app.
36 columns, right on the colonnade ↘
↖ pinned at 4 corners · RMS 0.03 m
In: PNG · JPG · PDF · DXF · CSV · XLSX · KML · SHP
Out: scaled PDF · DXF · SVG
Out: GeoJSON · SHP · KML · CSV · XLSX
02 Schedule of uses
What teams use it for
| Mark | Use | How it works | You end up with |
|---|---|---|---|
| U1 | Drawings without CAD | Trace buildings, rooms, slabs and boundaries off the aerial or a pinned plan; every shape is dimensioned. Issue a plan at a true scale with your title block. No CAD licence, no training course. | scaled PDF · DXF · SVG sheets |
| U2 | Reconcile old drawings | Pin legacy and as-built PDFs or DXFs to today's imagery and see what has changed. Recolour linework, erase title blocks, cut a room out to its own layer. | drawings that sit on the real ground |
| U3 | Verify the register on site | Work through a list on a phone: confirm assets where they are, record where they really are, mark what's missing, capture what isn't on the list. Photos, condition and ± accuracy on every record. | an audited register, not a guess |
| U4 | Feed GIS and BI | Export straight into ArcGIS or QGIS, or into Power BI, Tableau and Excel maps — status, condition, level and accuracy are columns. A low-cost way into location analytics, without a GIS team. | GeoJSON · SHP · KML · CSV · XLSX |
| U5 | Multi-storey buildings | Basement, ground and upper floors as levels. Copy a pinned plan to the next floor, swap in its drawing, and audit one floor at a time. | level & floor height on every record |
| U6 | Smaller jobs | Renovations, extensions, landscaping, fencing and paddocks: 100+ ready-made shapes with live areas and lengths, for quotes and permits. | a measured plan in minutes |
no CAD licence — it's a web page
◎ Issued for
- Facilities & propertySite plans, space and asset registers, condition audits.
- Asset & maintenance teamsVerify, locate and photograph assets; feed the CMMS and BI.
- Councils & utilitiesPark furniture, pits, hydrants, signs — whatever is on the list.
- Builders & estimatorsMeasure off plans and aerials; quote and set out.
- ConsultantsMark up drawings over the real site; issue clean sheets.
- Owners & renovatorsPlan the new laundry over the old one.
03 Field capture · real screens
A work list on the phone
An example audit of the park furniture around the Lincoln Memorial — 20 benches, bins and fountains to verify and 3 entries with no coordinates to locate.
04 Data out · GIS & BI
From the field to the dashboard
Every capture is a row your GIS or BI tool understands: coordinates, status, condition, how it was located and how accurate that was. Drop the Excel or CSV into Power BI and the map visual plots it; drop the GeoJSON into ArcGIS or QGIS and it's a layer.
- Power BI, Tableau, Excel maps from the latitude/longitude columns — colour by status or condition, slice by level or group.
- ArcGIS, QGIS, MapInfo from GeoJSON, Shapefile or KML, in lat/long or MGA/UTM grid.
- Joins back to your register on the asset ID; extra points carry their asset's ID too.
items.csv — real export from the example audit
| id | audit_status | position_source | gps_accuracy_m | moved_m |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEN-09 | Verified | gps | 3.1 | 1.6 |
| BEN-08 | Not found | import | ||
| BEN-07 | import | |||
| DF-05 |
+ latitude, longitude, group, condition, audited_at, audited_by, photos, level, elevation_m, extra_points, parent_id …
05 Method statement
From a PDF to a plan
someone can build from
- 105Find the site. Paste an address or a Google Maps link. Drop the drawing in — PDFs and DXFs open in the browser; nothing is uploaded.
- 205Pin three or four corners. Click a corner on the drawing, then the same corner on the aerial. Plotlay fits it and shows the error at every pin.
- 305Trace and measure. The wand outlines rooms; every shape shows its area and wall lengths, with ± where GPS was involved.
- 405Issue it. A scaled PDF with your title block, a DXF for the drafter, a shapefile for GIS. See a real sheet →
06 Schedule of fees · AUD
The tools are free. The cloud is what costs.
| Free | Project pass | Pro | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 | $19once · 30 days | $19per month | $79per month · 5 people |
| Every tool & export | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| Projects in the cloud | 1 | for 30 days | unlimited | unlimited, shared |
| Read-only share links | — | ● | ● | ● |
| Branded plan sheets | — | — | ● | ● |
| Team space, invites, roles | — | — | — | ● |
| Open app | Get a pass | Go Pro | Start a team |
Cancel any time and keep the plan to the end of the period. Need SSO, your own imagery or a private deployment? Talk to us.
08 General notes
Notes
- Nothing to install. Runs in a current browser on desktop, tablet or phone. Add it to a phone's home screen and it works offline.
- Accuracy. As good as the drawing and the imagery. Each pin shows its residual and the fit shows RMS; a few tenths of a metre is typical, a few centimetres with sharp imagery.
- Files in. PNG, JPG, WebP, SVG, PDF (any page), DXF — DXFs drawn in MGA/UTM place themselves. Lists from CSV, Excel, GeoJSON, KML. Save DWG as DXF first.
- Not a survey. Good for planning, quotes, facilities, asset registers and site work. Where the law wants a licensed surveyor, it still does.
- Your data. Stays in your browser unless you sync it. Synced projects are stored in Sydney; share links are read-only and can be turned off.
- All dimensions in metres unless noted otherwise. Do not scale from this web page.