Who We Are
We come from farming, so we know what works on the ground. Maplands delivers high-quality farm-scale maps, certified farm plans, drone mapping and on-farm communication tools across New Zealand — Farm Assurance Programmes, regulatory compliance and nutrient management included.
Better maps, faster, that look better — we handle the technical, so you can focus on farming.
What We Do
Practical, high-quality mapping and farm planning solutions for New Zealand farmers
High-resolution drone imagery and photogrammetry terrain modelling for farm planning, waterway mapping, compliance — or just a damn fine map on your wall.
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Base NZFAP and NZFAP+ (Silver & Gold) farm plans — the full built report, maps and a tailored environmental plan, done with you.
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Certified, audit-ready freshwater farm plans built on real farm-scale mapping — for Horizons, Waikato and Greater Wellington farmers.
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Farm-scale Land Use Capability (LUC), Land Resource Inventory (LRI) and soil mapping — at the right intensity for your farm or orchard plan.
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Certified, Overseer-based nutrient management plans for NZ farms. Soil tests to a paddock-by-paddock fertiliser plan that saves money, cuts N and P loss, and keeps you compliant.
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Clean, accurate farm maps you can hang on the wall or plan straight onto — printed wall maps, write-on whiteboard paddock maps, and a planning session to build them with you.
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Whiteboards, tear-off pads and boards — all made from your farm's real map, built for the office wall, the woolshed and the ute
Your farm as a wipe-clean whiteboard — plan grazing, spray and mating straight on the map, wipe it off and go again next round.
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Tear-off paper pads where every sheet is your farm's paddock map — scribble the plan, hand it over, tear off a fresh one next time.
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Your farm's hazards, no-go zones and assembly points on one printed board — the map you point contractors and visitors at before they head out.
Learn MoreYour farm's actual hills and gullies, 3D-printed solid from real LiDAR terrain data — a farm you can hold, coming soon.
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Our services and products bundled around the jobs farms actually need done — from a map on the wall to a full compliance-ready farm plan
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The first proper map of the place — a write-on whiteboard map of the whole operation, built with you and put on your wall.
THE FULL JOB
Field-verified LUC and soil mapping, an NZFAP+ farm plan built on that foundation, and the whiteboard map and tear-off pads that put it to work every day.
AUDIT-READY
The audit-ready bundle — a full NZFAP+ farm plan for the auditor, a health and safety hazard board on the wall for the team, contractors and visitors, and a write-on paddock map for the day-to-day.
Our Difference
We're farmers ourselves — we develop plans that work for you and your farm, not just for regulators.
NZFAP+ certified, certified freshwater farm plan provider, and Certified Nutrient Management Advisor.
Our maps are built to be genuinely useful beyond their regulatory purpose — accurate, clear, and farm-scale.
We work efficiently to deliver your plans and maps quickly, without compromising on quality.
Talk to us about your farm. We handle the technical so you can focus on farming. Fast turnaround, high-quality maps, and practical plans built for New Zealand conditions.
From the field
Practical notes on farm mapping, soils and compliance — no fluff.
A drone photo shows the grass. LiDAR measures the ground underneath it. On hill country that's the difference between a farm map you can plan from and one that quietly gets your slope, your water and your LUC class wrong — here's why we fly both.
Say 'LUC' and most farmers think environmental paperwork. They're missing the point: Land Use Capability was built to answer a profit question — what will this land actually repay?
A farm plan is only as good as the map under it. The strongest footing is a field-verified, farm-scale Land Use Capability base — and it goes well beyond what NZFAP+ and the rules actually require.
Getting a fence line in the right place used to mean a surveyor, a day rate and a wait. We've got a faster, cheaper way that hits the accuracy farm fencing actually needs — posts marked to 20 cm, ready for the fencer.
A drone map makes a flashy photo — but that's the by-product, not the point. The actual practical reasons a farmer gets their place flown: a current map without the wait, accurate areas, real terrain, wall-worthy aerials, and compliance off the same flight.
