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Auto‑Detect has been completely rebuilt, sending every scan result straight to your map and letting you fine‑tune objects with intuitive sliders and toggles—no more endless queues of decisions. The editor is now rock‑solid after sleep, with selectable objects inside large areas, perfectly aligned water highlights, and a fresh tangerine selection colour that matches the new detection highlight.

Imagine scanning an entire map in a single click and watching trees, buildings, water features and dense vegetation appear instantly, each grouped by confidence level. With a simple slider you control how much the AI auto‑places versus holds for review, then effortlessly accept or reject suggestions before committing the design. This fast, visual workflow lets you turn raw aerial images into a complete, editable site plan in minutes, freeing you to focus on the creative design work.

Fieldwalker lets you download maps, contours, and elevation data to your phone so every tool—Contour Walker, Field Walker, pin‑dropping, and notes—works flawlessly even where there’s no signal. Drop pins offline, watch them queue, and have them sync automatically when you reconnect, ensuring no critical observations are ever lost.

Imagine walking your property with a live aerial map that follows your every step, letting you drop observation pins instantly and offline—no signal needed. Each pin records notes, photos, and exact GPS coordinates, syncing automatically when you’re back online, so every insight stays tied to its exact spot on the land.

Fieldwalker's Contour Walker lets you guide your phone along a true‑ground contour line using GPS and a compass, turning a map line into a real‑world path without any extra equipment. Record the walk offline, see instant visual and audio cues, and save an editable line that bridges your design straight to the soil.

Fieldwalker’s mobile interface lets you drop GPS‑tagged observation pins, capture notes and photos on the spot, and instantly see your design layers in real time—so the “observe” step of permaculture happens right on the land. Each pin builds a living, timestamped record that stays linked to the map, turning scattered field notes into actionable design insights.

Fieldwalker instantly draws your property boundary by pulling official cadastral data across Australia and New Zealand, then lets you fine‑tune it with GPS or file imports when needed. No more wrestling with fragmented government APIs—just one click to lock in an accurate, permanent frame for every design decision.

Fieldwalker’s export system turns your screen designs into professional permaculture documents—complete with title block, legend, north arrow, and scale bar—available in PDF, SVG, and PNG. Preview exactly what you’ll download, adjust layers and styling, and get crisp, printable files that contractors and clients can rely on.

In just nine weeks, a solo founder turned a bare‑bones project folder into a full‑featured permaculture design app—thanks to disciplined, AI‑assisted development. By breaking work into tight, self‑contained briefs and pairing clear human vision with an AI coding partner, the build stayed fast, focused, and surprisingly robust. This approach shows how precise specifications can turn months of effort into weeks without sacrificing quality.

Fieldwalker automatically pulls the best available elevation data for any site, from high‑resolution LiDAR in places like Australia to broader 30‑metre datasets elsewhere, and clearly shows the source and resolution of each contour line. When you need finer detail, you can request sourced data or even a drone‑captured survey for centimetric accuracy, instantly upgrading your contours and design confidence.

Fieldwalker’s design editor puts the tools you need—trees, swales, fences, zones, and more—right at your fingertips with keyboard shortcuts and a floating toolbar, so you never have to hunt for a button. Full undo/redo and context menus let you experiment freely, instantly correcting or tweaking any element without leaving the canvas. This speed‑focused, iterative workflow lets your ideas flow as fast as your thinking, turning complex permaculture designs into a smooth, hands‑free experience.

Designing a quarter‑acre backyard can be just as rigorous and rewarding as planning a farm, especially with tools that automatically adapt to the site’s scale. Fieldwalker fine‑tunes contour lines, symbol sizes, and rendering detail so every square metre works harder, letting you place gardens, swales, and trees with real‑world precision. This makes the small‑scale practice ground feel as legitimate—and as inspiring—as any large‑scale permaculture project.

Fieldwalker's symbol library brings permaculture designs to life with purpose‑built icons—trees with organic canopies, swales that instantly show water flow, and dense vegetation rendered as single, recognizable blobs. By scaling automatically to any site, these symbols let you read and communicate a whole system at a glance, turning sketches into clear, professional design documents.

Fieldwalker and the Mistwood ecosystem bridge the gap between completing a Permaculture Design Certificate and actually producing professional designs, handling the mechanical workflow so you can focus on creative thinking. Imagine turning raw elevation data into instant contour lines and generating base maps in seconds—no GIS degree required. This tool empowers PDC graduates to move from theory to real‑world projects, letting the knowledge in your head finally shape the landscape you’ve been dreaming of.

Fieldwalker’s AI instantly spots trees, buildings, water and dense vegetation on aerial images, turning hours of manual tracing into seconds. With those features already mapped and stylized, you jump straight into the creative design work—deciding where swales go, how zones relate, and which patches to preserve or reshape.

Fieldwalker turns weeks of tedious elevation data hunting into seconds, delivering high‑resolution contour lines that let you see exactly how water will flow across your land. With sub‑metre accuracy and adjustable contour intervals, you can design swales, dams, and access routes confidently—no GIS expertise required.

Imagine typing any address and instantly getting a high‑resolution aerial map, perfectly scaled and ready for design—no screenshots, no stitching, no hassle. Fieldwalker turns that vision into reality, letting you dive straight into permaculture planning with accurate contours, AI‑detected features, and intuitive drawing tools, so you can focus on shaping the landscape instead of wrestling with data.

Fieldwalker turns the messy mechanics of permaculture design into a fast, intuitive workflow—auto‑generating base maps, contour lines, and feature detection in seconds—so you can spend your energy on observing, reflecting, and iterating. Imagine typing an address and instantly getting a detailed, editable site map that evolves with your ideas, letting you experiment with swales, zones, and orchards without the endless redraws. This tool bridges the gap between deep design knowledge and professional‑grade documentation, keeping the process fluid and the output polished.

Discover how contour lines reveal exactly where water wants to flow, letting you place swales that capture runoff instead of creating unwanted dams. By reading the lines perpendicular to the slopes and spotting natural drainage paths, you can design level trenches that hold water across the entire length, boosting soil moisture and supporting thriving plantings.