Official aerial imagery, parcel boundaries, contour lines, wet-dry analysis and climate maps in one map. Search your address, switch layers on, measure and draw. When it fits, take everything into the app.
Permaplans is an app for planning gardens, food forests and permaculture sites. This map is the open entrance: everything you need to get to know a plot, right in the browser.
10–30 cm ground resolution from the surveying authorities of 15 German states, Austria and Switzerland. Mostly flown out of leaf — paths, bed edges and fences are visible. The map picks the service for your location automatically.
Boundaries and parcel numbers overlaid on the imagery. Click a parcel to see district, field, number and official area — and turn the boundary into a drawing with one click.
For every German state the boundary distances for trees, shrubs and hedges under neighbour law — shown right next to the parcel, with the legal source.
Computed from a worldwide terrain model, with spacing by zoom (1, 3, 5 or 10 m). Shows slopes, hollows and crests.
Where does water collect, where does it drain? Computed from relief position and a flow model. Blue = hollows and valley floors, orange = crests and ridges.
Rainfall, water balance, temperature, hardiness zone, Köppen climate zone, growing season, heat sum, frost change, snow days, soil texture, pH, stone content and more. Germany at 1 km, worldwide at 5–20 km resolution. With a pipette for the value at any point.
Distances and areas — metres, kilometres, square metres, hectares.
Plot, areas, buildings, water, paths, walls, points and labels. Stays saved in your browser, even after closing.
Read GeoJSON, KML, KMZ and GPX — from QGIS, Google Earth or a hiking app. Download everything again as GeoJSON.
One click on "Save in the app" turns your drawing into a garden in Permaplans — with boundary, areas and paths. From there you continue with over 1,100 plant species, yield projections and the 2.5D view.
No. Search, layers, measuring, drawing and import work without signing in. You only need an account when you want to save the drawing as a garden in the app.
No. They stay in your browser's storage and are back on your next visit — on the same device and browser.
Official imagery exists for 15 German states (not Saarland), Austria and Switzerland. Elsewhere the map switches to the worldwide satellite image.
The terrain model has roughly 30 m resolution. It shows the landscape — slope, hollow, crest — not a 20 cm dip in a bed.
No, they are guide values with the legal source. The statute text of your state and any municipal tree protection bylaw are decisive.
Base map: OpenStreetMap contributors. Satellite: Esri World Imagery. Official aerial imagery and cadastral maps: the respective state survey (attribution on the map). Terrain: Mapzen/AWS Terrain Tiles (SRTM, EU-DEM and others). Climate: CHELSA V2.1 (CC0), German Weather Service. Soil: BGR, ISRIC SoilGrids (CC BY 4.0). Address search: Nominatim/OpenStreetMap. This page sets no cookies and loads no trackers; drawings stay in your browser only until you move them into the app yourself.