Land, Mapping & Field Boundaries
Land & Mapping: For Advisers & Agents
What Land & Mapping changes for agronomists, agents, vets and consultants.
Advisers need scoped access, defensible records and a way to work across a client base without re-keying. Nothing on the platform works without one authoritative answer to the question of where a field is and what it is called. This module reconciles Rural Land Register parcels, Ordnance Survey topography, land registry title extents and the four nations' own land identifiers into a single field-boundary graph, and holds every designation, constraint and overlay against it.
In their words
What the job actually looks like
These are not marketing personas. Each one is a distinct job with a distinct constraint, and the module is designed so that solving one does not create work for the others.
Contractor
Working across client farms
Needs field boundaries offline in the cab.
- Import parcels from the relevant national system
- Reconcile against OS and registry geometry
- Resolve conflicts and record the decision
- Apply designations and constraints
Scheme applicant
Preparing an application
Needs eligible area to match the paying agency's figure exactly.
- Reconcile against OS and registry geometry
- Resolve conflicts and record the decision
- Apply designations and constraints
- Assign tenure and management responsibility
Land agent
Managing multiple client holdings
Needs authoritative area figures for claims and valuations.
- Resolve conflicts and record the decision
- Apply designations and constraints
- Assign tenure and management responsibility
- Publish the canonical graph to every module
End to end
How Land & Mapping runs, start to finish
The module is modelled as a state machine, so at any point the business knows exactly which stage every record is at and what has to happen next.
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Import parcels from the relevant national system
This is where the record starts, and getting it right here removes work at every later stage.
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Reconcile against OS and registry geometry
The platform prompts only for what this stage genuinely needs, and carries everything forward.
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Resolve conflicts and record the decision
Conflicts with scheme rules, regulatory windows and existing commitments are flagged here rather than discovered later.
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Apply designations and constraints
Capture works offline, so this stage is completed in the field rather than remembered afterwards.
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Assign tenure and management responsibility
Everything recorded at this point becomes evidence automatically, in every format that will later ask for it.
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Publish the canonical graph to every module
This is the stage most businesses currently do twice, once for the operation and once for the paperwork.
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Manage boundary change over time
Results feed the whole-farm view, so the effect of this stage is visible against the rest of the business.
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Reconcile with the paying agency annually
The cycle closes here, and what is learned is carried into next season's plan rather than lost.
Capabilities
What Land & Mapping does
Every capability below is built on the same underlying record, so entering something once is enough for it to appear wherever it is needed.
Record and plan
- Canonical field boundary graph reconciling RLR, OS and land registry geometry
- Parcel identifier reconciliation across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
- Field naming with local names retained alongside official identifiers
Operate and monitor
- Area calculation with eligible, ineligible and gross area distinction
- Designation overlays — SSSI, SAC, SPA, National Landscape, National Park, scheduled monument
- Constraint overlays — flood zone, NVZ, groundwater protection, deep peat, public rights of way
Comply and evidence
- Boundary change management with effective dates and audit history
- Cross-border holding handling where a business farms in more than one nation
- Tenure overlay showing owned, tenanted and contract-farmed land
Analyse and improve
- Common land and shared grazing rights recording
- Split-field and part-parcel management for scheme actions
- Offline map tiles for field use in areas without coverage
Find
Find surveyors and laboratories
Filter by type, nation, distance and accreditation. Results are ranked by relevance to your holding once your holding record exists, and alphabetically before that.
5 records shown from the platform’s own register
- Module Soil Health & Structure Flagship
- Module Soil Carbon & Organic Matter Core
- Module Land, Mapping & Field Boundaries Flagship
- Module Tenancy, Tenure & Land Markets Core
- Module Peatland & Paludiculture Core
Worked example
How a business like yours would use Land & Mapping
The problem: Needs one map, not two portals.
What they do
- Import parcels from the relevant national system
- Reconcile against OS and registry geometry
- Resolve conflicts and record the decision
- Apply designations and constraints
What changes
- Parcels reconciled
- Area discrepancy against paying agency
- Designations correctly applied
This is an illustrative worked example built from the module design, not a customer reference. Named case studies are published only with the business's written consent.
What we are hearing
The problems people describe to us
These are composite statements drawn from user research conversations, not attributed customer quotes. We publish named references only with written consent.
I am not short of software. I am short of one place where the same field means the same thing in all of it.
The scheme closed on a Tuesday evening. I had the application half built. Nobody told me the budget was nearly gone.
We farm on both sides of the border. Everything takes twice as long and I still cannot see the whole position on one screen.
Audit week costs me three days. Every single record they ask for is already written down somewhere on this farm.
Measurement
How you will know it is working
The module reports against these measures from the day it is switched on, so the value is demonstrable rather than assumed.
- 01Parcels reconciled
- 02Area discrepancy against paying agency
- 03Designations correctly applied
- 04Offline map availability
- 05Boundary dispute incidents
See it working
Book a demonstration on your own holding data
Thirty minutes, using your parcels and your schemes rather than a sample farm, so you can judge it on your own numbers.