Everything in the Left-Hand Menu, Regrouped.

‍Here’s what’s changed:

• ‍Planning Layers is now Map Layers - Every layer sits in the one panel under five categories: Planning, Hazards, Heritage & Environment, Boundaries and Base Map - making it easier and faster to visualise the layers you use daily. Read our help article to find out more about the new map layers.
• ‍Common Layers is now Base Map (A category inside Map Layers) - Activate Roads, Footpaths, Places (street numbers), Parcel Labels and Properties (property boundaries) on the map are all in there, along with the stroke weight control for the boundary line. ‍Find out how to set which Base Map layers display by default in this help article.‍
• Points of Interest has its own icon - moved from Common Layers and into its own icon in the toolbar. Activate and identify the amenities around a property, grouped into categories including public transport, education, shopping and healthcare. ‍
• Site Finder has a new icon - A folded map with a magnifying glass. It hasn't moved in the toolbar. 

Click here to see what sits behind every icon in the left-hand menu.

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Projects Update: Introducing Comments 

Notes in Projects are now Comments.

All your existing notes attached to project properties are still there, they're just called comments now. What's new is where a comment can live.

• Pin a comment to a point on the map, so a note about a setback sits on the setback rather than in a list nobody reads back.
• Replies thread underneath the comment that started them, which keeps a site decision and its reasoning together.
• @-mention a colleague and they're notified, so the person who needs to look at something knows you need them.
• Toggle the pins off whenever you want a clean map. Hiding them doesn't delete anything.

Available on all paid plans. Click here to read our help article on how to add, reply to and mention someone in a comment.

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Everything That's Changed in Map Types

The map types sit in the bottom left corner of the map. Take a look at the video above to see everything that's new.

• Set your default map type. Want to make High-Res Imagery your default map layer when accessing the platform? Click here to learn how to change the map type and save a default.
• Satellite and Coloured-Infrared are now in the list. Satellite covers regional and rural sites that aerial imagery doesn't reach, and Coloured-Infrared, the map type we used to call Lidar, shows you how healthy the tree cover is. Compare what each map type shows here.‍
• Base Map is now Street Map. Same map type, new name in the list.‍
• Standard aerial imagery has moved to our paid plans. Free plan accounts now use Street Map. Standard aerial imagery sits alongside high-resolution imagery, Satellite and Coloured-Infrared on the paid plans. Your layers, searches and saved settings are unaffected. See which plans include each map type here.

All five map types are available on all paid plans.

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Drawing Tools: Add a Point Anywhere Along a Line You've Drawn

Another update to the drawing tools, and like the last few, it's here to save you a redraw. Need one more point on a line you've already drawn? 

Drop it anywhere along the line. Pick the corner you're measuring from and the distance updates as you drag, so you can fix one measurement without starting the shape again. That's on top of snapping to parcel boundaries and locking shapes, which landed earlier this month.

‍Click here to learn how to edit and adjust lines and shapes.

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Parcels, Grouped the Way Each State Records Them

Parcels now have their own collapsible section. Victoria splits by Crown Description and Lot/Plan, each with a count, and consolidated sites carry their state's identifier: 

• Plan/Parcel in South Australia
• Division/Section/Block in the Australian Capital Territory
• Lot/Town in the Northern Territory

Missing identifiers show as a clean double dash in property reports.