GIS and CAD site data from one address
Boundary, easements, contours, geology, soils and planning overlays, clipped to the property and delivered as one ZIP for CAD, GIS or Google Earth. Every dataset is included: $15 for a property, or $15 per km² if you draw or upload your own area.
Everything mapped about your block, in files your building designer or engineer can open straight away.
Would rather read it than draw on it? The planning, flood and services data as a PDF.
Not sure which? The export is drawing files, the report is a PDF to read. Sample export · sample report
For building designers, architects and drafters starting a house, extension or subdivision.
For civil and geotechnical engineers, planners and surveyors assessing a site or a corridor.
Worked example · use cases · geotechnical desktop study · how it works
Every card is the same order: all the datasets held for the site, in DXF, Shapefile, GeoPackage and KMZ together. Prices AUD incl. GST. See the full dataset list →
One Queenslander renovation in Red Hill, Brisbane, settled five design questions from two small datasets for the lot: a sun path and LiDAR terrain. The export supplies the inputs; the working was done by the owner with an AI assistant.
How deep should the window hoods be?
Over 40% less
summer heat through a west window with a standard 565 mm hood. A deeper one barely improved on it.
Will we still see the ridge?
About 5° up
is where the ridge sits from the west windows, well clear of the hood edge, standing or seated.
When does the sun really go?
6:17 pm
behind the ridge on 21 December, 27 minutes before the astronomical sunset.
Where do the solar panels go?
Under 1% shading
on the rear roof, out of sight from the street: 17 panels, about 11,000 kWh a year.
What will the skylights do?
Soft light until 9 am
in midsummer, and no direct sun on the bathroom floor at midwinter noon.
Cadastral lot boundaries with lot/plan attributes.
Road centrelines with names, for site context and setout.
Registered easements over the cadastre, from the state digital cadastral database.
Elevation contour lines, Z embedded on each vertex.
3D spot heights on a regular grid (5 m on a house lot, wider on large areas), interpolated from the state DEM.
Float32 DEM in metres AHD, clipped to the extent.
Delaunay triangulated surface over the DEM: DXF 3DFACE entities for CAD, and OBJ/COLLADA meshes shifted to a local origin for SketchUp, Blender and Rhino.
Mapped streams, creeks and drainage lines.
Surface geology polygons with unit name, lithology and age.
Australian Soil Classification orders and soil landscape units.
Acid sulphate soil risk and occurrence mapping.
Flood planning areas, AEP extents, overland flow paths, storm tide and mapped historic flood events.
Bushfire prone areas, bushfire management overlays and hazard buffers.
Landslide risk, mine subsidence, underground coal mining, erosion management and salinity.
Planning scheme zones and region scheme zones.
State and local heritage places, heritage overlays and registers.
Current aerial photography as a georeferenced JPG, plus a KMZ overlay.
South Australia: South Australian aerial imagery is licensed and cannot be redistributed in exports. Victoria: Victorian aerial imagery is licensed and cannot be redistributed in exports.
Stereographic sun path chart for the site, with solstice and equinox sunrise, solar noon and sunset times and azimuths, plus sun position through every daylight hour of the 21st of each month as CSV.
3859 published flood-model grids - depth, flood level, velocity and hazard for each modelled event and climate scenario - clipped to the property as GeoTIFF, with 0.5 m or 1.0 m contours in DXF, GeoPackage, Shapefile or KMZ.
Held for ACT Government, Albury City Council, Camden Council, Central Coast Council, Central Darling Shire Council, City of Coffs Harbour, Coonamble Shire Council, Dungog Shire Council, Edward River Council, Fairfield City Council, Hawkesbury City Council, Hilltops Council, Inner West Council, Lake Macquarie City Council, Lockhart Shire Council, MidCoast Council, City of Newcastle, NSW Reconstruction Authority, City of Parramatta Council, Snowy Valleys Council, Temora Shire Council, Wagga Wagga City Council, Wollongong City Council, Banana Shire Council, Brisbane City Council, City of Moreton Bay, Queensland Government (QSpatial) / GHD, Tasmania State Emergency Service (via the LIST), Baw Baw Shire Council, Benalla Rural City Council, City of Ballarat; Corangamite Catchment Management Authority, City of Greater Geelong, Corangamite Catchment Management Authority, Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Glenelg Hopkins Catchment Management Authority, Glenelg Hopkins Catchment Management Authority; Corangamite Shire, Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority, Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority; Berrigan and Moira Shire, Goulburn Catchment Eildon-Seymour Flood Warning Group, Greater Shepparton City Council; Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority, Mansfield Shire Council, Murrindindi Shire Council, Murrindindi Shire Council; Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority, North Central Catchment Management Authority, Strathbogie Shire Council; Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority, West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority, Wimmera Catchment Management Authority, Wimmera Catchment Management Authority; Hindmarsh Shire Council, North Central Catchment Management Authority. One export credit per order, up to 6 models. Check which models cover an address.
10 of the 18 datasets are ground conditions and statutory planning layers. Plenty of tools will hand you a site plan in DXF. What takes the work out of a desktop study is having geology, soils, acid sulfate, easements, watercourses and the overlays arrive as attributed vectors in the same clipped, projected package. The source data is public, and most of it is free if you collect it yourself: the last column shows what that involves.
Scroll the table sideways to see the alternatives.
| What you need on the site plan | LayeredGeo exportFrom $15 a site | Global CAD site-plan toolsBuilt from OpenStreetMap and SRTM | Imagery-led site analysis packsHigh-resolution imagery and climate | Planning and feasibility platformsMonthly subscription | Free government portalsELVIS and the state data portals, collected yourself |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cadastre and easements2 datasets | Parcel boundary and easement polygons from the state cadastre | No cadastre; building footprints only | Parcel outline supplied as DXF | Parcel in the map; CAD export on the upper tiers | Free from each state's data portal, in that portal's format and extent |
| Terrain4 datasets | Contours, elevation points, GeoTIFF raster, a DXF TIN and OBJ/COLLADA terrain meshes from the best government elevation model for the site, LiDAR where it has been captured | Global SRTM mesh, roughly 30 m | Not the focus of the pack | Contours and massing surfaces on the upper tiers | ELVIS supplies LiDAR elevation grids and point clouds free, down to 1 m where captured, which is finer than the 5 m grid we use outside Queensland and South Australia. In South Australia we serve a 1 m LiDAR grid where a capture we hold covers the whole site (most of metropolitan Adelaide, Mount Barker and a number of regional areas), and the 5 m grid elsewhere, including sites ELVIS has captured that we do not yet hold. Delivered as unclipped tiles; contours, DXF and TIN are yours to make |
| Roads and watercourses2 datasets | State road centrelines and mapped watercourses | OpenStreetMap roads and waterways where they have been mapped | Not supplied | Not supplied | Free from the state portals, as separate downloads |
| Geology1 dataset | Mapped geological units with their attributes, as polygons | Not supplied | Not supplied | Not supplied | Free from the state geological survey, as a separate download |
| Soils and acid sulfate2 datasets | Australian Soil Classification polygons and acid sulfate soil risk classes | Not supplied | Not supplied | Not supplied | Free from state soil and environment portals, as separate downloads |
| Planning and hazard overlays5 datasets | Zoning, flood, bushfire, geohazard and heritage as attributed vectors you can edit and plot | Not supplied | Not supplied | Drawn on the platform map; the CAD export is the site, contours and massing | Council by council. Many councils publish a web map only, with no download |
| Aerial imagery | NSW and QLD only, as JPG with a world file. Licensing keeps the other states off. | Not supplied | Their headline: 5 to 7 cm imagery as GeoTIFF | High-resolution imagery included | Viewable on state web maps; download rights vary by state |
| Sun path, solar and climate analysis | Sun path chart with solstice and equinox times as PDF, hourly sun positions as CSV; no irradiance, wind or rainfall | Shadow studies in some tools | Sun sweeps, irradiance, wind and rainfall analysis | Not supplied | Not supplied |
| Output formats | DXF, Shapefile, GeoPackage, KMZ, GeoTIFF, DXF TIN and OBJ/COLLADA meshes, in the CRS you pick | DWG, DXF, SKP and OBJ | DXF and GeoTIFF | CAD export on the upper tiers | Whatever each portal publishes: GeoTIFF, LAZ, Shapefile or geodatabase, each in its own coordinate system |
Comparison of publicly published feature lists, desk review 28 August 2026 (free-portal column added 10 October 2026), grouped by the kind of product rather than by vendor. If terrain is all you need and you are set up to process LiDAR tiles, ELVIS is the right tool and it is free. Competitors change what they offer; check their current pack before you rely on this. Our own coverage varies by dataset and address, which is why the address check above confirms availability for the exact site.
├── Cadastre.dxf ├── Contours.dxf ├── ElevationRaster.tif ├── site-data.gpkg ├── shp/ │ ├── PropertyBoundary.shp │ └── PlanningZones.shp ├── kmz/ │ └── selected-layers.kmz └── COPYRIGHT.txt
Selected source layers are fetched, clipped to the site extent, reprojected, and packaged for the software you already use.
Use an address, draw an area, or upload a boundary for the area you actually need.
Vector layers can be supplied in DXF, Shapefile, GeoPackage, and KMZ. Dataset-specific outputs such as GeoTIFF, TIN, and imagery are included where selected and available.
Use the files in Civil 3D, AutoCAD, QGIS, ArcGIS, Google Earth, or your normal desktop review process.
All prices include GST. Start with one site, or reduce the per-export cost when this becomes a regular workflow.
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Working from a consultant's 12d Model file instead? The free 12d to DXF converter turns .12da and .12daz archives into layered DXF, surfaces and LandXML.
LayeredGeo's GIS and CAD Site Export delivers the property boundary, easements, contours, elevation, geology, soils and planning overlays for a site as DXF, Shapefile, GeoPackage and KMZ in one ZIP. It costs $15 for a property, or $15 per square kilometre for an area you draw or upload, and covers Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT.
Start with an address, or draw or upload the area you need, then choose the exact datasets and output formats.
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