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Measure any parcel of land, right on the map.

Draw a boundary on the map and get its area in m², hectares, ares, sq ft or acres. Polygon, rectangle, circle and n-gon tools.

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A residential lot traced with the polygon tool, the panel reading its area in square metres.

Four ways to draw

Pick a tool, draw on the map, read the area. Every shape stays editable afterwards.

Poly

Click each corner. Click the white first corner, or press Enter, to close the shape.

Rect

Press and drag between two corners. Hold Shift for a perfect square.

Circle

Press at the centre and drag out to the radius.

N-gon

Press at the centre and drag out. Drag direction sets rotation. 3 to 12 sides.

Nothing is final

Every corner stays draggable after you draw.

Drag a corner to move it. Drag an edge midpoint to insert a new one. Right-click a corner to delete it. The area updates live as you drag, and Esc cancels.

Shapes are stored as coordinates, not pixels — so they stay pinned to the ground while you pan and zoom the map.

Units that make sense

Click the unit label to cycle. Perimeter is shown alongside.

hectares ares ft² acres
A circular area drawn from a centre point, with the readout panel showing area and perimeter.

Honest about accuracy

The maths is careful. The clicking is where error actually comes from.

Areas are computed on the WGS 84 ellipsoid, using the local meridional and prime-vertical radii of curvature at your parcel's mean latitude — not a spherical approximation, which overstates area by around 0.6% at tropical latitudes. Residual maths error is well under 0.01%.

Click precision dominates. At zoom 19, one screen pixel is about 0.29 m on the ground. Zoom in as far as the imagery allows before placing corners.
Satellite view estimates scale from the camera altitude in the URL, and a scale error is squared into the area. Plain map view is exact. The panel warns you when it is estimating.
3D tilt breaks the projection entirely. The panel warns you to flatten back to 2D before you trust a number.

Lot Trace measures horizontal projected area — which is what land titles quote.

It genuinely doesn't phone home

Lot Trace requests no Chrome permissions, makes no network requests, and has no servers, accounts, or analytics. Boundaries you draw exist only in the current tab and are discarded when you close it.

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