Soil, Land & Earth
Land, Mapping & Field Boundaries
The canonical boundary graph every other module reads from.
Nothing on the platform works without one authoritative answer to the question of where a field is and what it is called. This module reconciles Rural Land Register parcels, Ordnance Survey topography, land registry title extents and the four nations' own land identifiers into a single field-boundary graph, and holds every designation, constraint and overlay against it.
- 12 capabilities
- 4 linked schemes
- Flagship module
- Offline capable
- 12
- Capabilities in this module
- 5
- Interactive tools
- 4
- Linked support schemes
- 7
- Data integrations
- 5
- Measures reported
The ground reality
What is actually happening in land & mapping in the UK
The Rural Land Register holds around 2.4 million registered land parcels digitally in England alone, with separate systems in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Ordnance Survey licensing is a hard commercial constraint for a private platform: the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement is free at the point of use for public sector members but not for private companies, which must operate as an OS Partner with a chargeable allowance. Land Registry INSPIRE Index Polygons are available under open licence but derive from OS geometry, so OS terms and attribution still apply.
Figures are as published at the time of writing. Farm policy and payment rates change frequently — verify against the primary source before relying on any number here.
In the field
Land & mapping, as it actually looks
Photography from working UK holdings alongside the interface that records it. Every frame below is a commissioned slot: the brief is stated until the photograph is taken.
Land & Mapping — a walkthrough
A working pass through land & mapping: entering the record once, and watching it appear in the evidence pack, the calendar and the scheme application without being typed again.
- 0:00 What the module is for
- 0:48 Entering the record
- 2:05 Where it appears next
- 3:20 The evidence pack
Photography slots state their own brief until the shot is commissioned, so the layout never shifts when real images arrive.
Capabilities
What Land & Mapping does
Every capability below is built on the same underlying record, so entering something once is enough for it to appear wherever it is needed.
Record and plan
- Canonical field boundary graph reconciling RLR, OS and land registry geometry
- Parcel identifier reconciliation across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
- Field naming with local names retained alongside official identifiers
Operate and monitor
- Area calculation with eligible, ineligible and gross area distinction
- Designation overlays — SSSI, SAC, SPA, National Landscape, National Park, scheduled monument
- Constraint overlays — flood zone, NVZ, groundwater protection, deep peat, public rights of way
Comply and evidence
- Boundary change management with effective dates and audit history
- Cross-border holding handling where a business farms in more than one nation
- Tenure overlay showing owned, tenanted and contract-farmed land
Analyse and improve
- Common land and shared grazing rights recording
- Split-field and part-parcel management for scheme actions
- Offline map tiles for field use in areas without coverage
Interactive
Tools you actually use, not screens you read
These are working interfaces inside the module — maps, calculators, planners and dashboards that respond to your own holding data.
Full-screen mapping canvas with layer switching and measurement tools
Full-screen mapping canvas with layer switching and measurement tools
MapBoundary editor with snapping, splitting and merging
Boundary editor with snapping, splitting and merging
ToolDesignation and constraint checker returning every overlay on a chosen parcel
Designation and constraint checker returning every overlay on a chosen parcel
WizardArea reconciliation report comparing claimed, mapped and registered areas
Area reconciliation report comparing claimed, mapped and registered areas
MapCross-nation holding view showing all parcels regardless of administration
Cross-nation holding view showing all parcels regardless of administration
ToolEnd to end
How Land & Mapping runs, start to finish
The module is modelled as a state machine, so at any point the business knows exactly which stage every record is at and what has to happen next.
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Import parcels from the relevant national system
This is where the record starts, and getting it right here removes work at every later stage.
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2
Reconcile against OS and registry geometry
The platform prompts only for what this stage genuinely needs, and carries everything forward.
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3
Resolve conflicts and record the decision
Conflicts with scheme rules, regulatory windows and existing commitments are flagged here rather than discovered later.
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4
Apply designations and constraints
Capture works offline, so this stage is completed in the field rather than remembered afterwards.
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5
Assign tenure and management responsibility
Everything recorded at this point becomes evidence automatically, in every format that will later ask for it.
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Publish the canonical graph to every module
This is the stage most businesses currently do twice, once for the operation and once for the paperwork.
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Manage boundary change over time
Results feed the whole-farm view, so the effect of this stage is visible against the rest of the business.
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Reconcile with the paying agency annually
The cycle closes here, and what is learned is carried into next season's plan rather than lost.
Who uses it
Built around four real jobs, not one generic user
Each of these people needs something different from the same record. The module is designed so none of them has to work around the others.
Border farmer
Land in England and Wales
Needs one map, not two portals.
Land agent
Managing multiple client holdings
Needs authoritative area figures for claims and valuations.
Scheme applicant
Preparing an application
Needs eligible area to match the paying agency's figure exactly.
Contractor
Working across client farms
Needs field boundaries offline in the cab.
Schemes and funding
Support schemes this module works with
Agrivencia holds these schemes as data, so eligibility, payment rates, caps and windows update the day they change rather than at the next software release.
Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026
Pay farmers for environmental actions taken alongside food production, as the principal replacement for area-based direct payments in England.
Defra / Rural Payments Agency WalesSustainable Farming Scheme
Replace area-based direct payments in Wales with a scheme rewarding sustainable land management outcomes.
Welsh Government / Rural Payments Wales Northern IrelandFarm Sustainability Payment
Provide an area-based safety-net payment to Northern Ireland farm businesses with sustainability conditionality.
DAERA ScotlandScottish Base and Enhanced Level Direct Payments
Provide base level income support conditional on essential standards, with an enhanced tier for additional climate and nature action.
Scottish Government / Rural Payments and Inspections DivisionRates, caps and windows change frequently and sometimes without notice. Always confirm against the current published scheme rules before applying.
Measurement
How you will know it is working
The module reports against these measures from the day it is switched on, so the value is demonstrable rather than assumed.
- 01Parcels reconciled
- 02Area discrepancy against paying agency
- 03Designations correctly applied
- 04Offline map availability
- 05Boundary dispute incidents
Find
Find surveyors and laboratories
Filter by type, nation, distance and accreditation. Results are ranked by relevance to your holding once your holding record exists, and alphabetically before that.
5 records shown from the platform’s own register
- Module Soil Health & Structure Flagship
- Module Soil Carbon & Organic Matter Core
- Module Land, Mapping & Field Boundaries Flagship
- Module Tenancy, Tenure & Land Markets Core
- Module Peatland & Paludiculture Core
Benchmarking
How this compares with businesses like yours
A cohort is only useful if it is genuinely comparable, so it is built from farm type, soil grade, region and scale rather than from whoever happens to have signed up. Your own figure is never shown to anyone else.
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Parcels reconciled
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 35 Median 61 Upper quartile 80
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Area discrepancy against paying agency
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 35 Median 58 Upper quartile 80
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Designations correctly applied
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 38 Median 45 Upper quartile 73
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Offline map availability
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 39 Median 62 Upper quartile 84
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Boundary dispute incidents
Your figure appears hereLower quartile 29 Median 54 Upper quartile 86
How the cohort is built
- Farm type
- Matched
- Soil grade
- Matched
- Region
- Matched
- Scale band
- Matched
- Cohort size
- Minimum 12 businesses, or no comparison is shown
Questions answered
What people ask about Land & Mapping
Does this replace the software I already use?
Not necessarily. Agrivencia integrates with authoritative sources and mainstream packages rather than insisting on replacing them. Where an incumbent does one job well, the platform connects to it; where the job spans several systems and nobody does it, the platform does it.
Will it work where I have no signal?
Yes. Field capture in Land & Mapping is offline first, storing locally and synchronising when a connection returns. Only around a fifth of UK farms report reliable signal across the whole holding, so this is a design assumption rather than a feature.
What happens when the scheme rules change?
Scheme rules are held as data rather than code, so a rate change, a cap change or a window closure is a content update that takes effect the same day. The platform also alerts you to what the change does to your own position.
Who owns the data I put in?
You do. The Farm Data Charter gives you a complete export in open formats at any time, and every instance of data sharing requires an explicit, revocable consent that is visible in your account.
Does it work if I farm across a border?
Yes, and that is one of the main reasons the platform exists. A business with land in more than one nation sees one reconciled view rather than two portals, with obligations and deadlines from both administrations in a single calendar.
Can my agronomist or land agent use it too?
Yes. You grant scoped, time-limited access per holding and per module, and you can revoke it in one click. Advisers never get a shared password or a blanket view.
What is the biggest limitation of this module?
Ordnance Survey licensing cost. A named critical-path dependency, modelled explicitly. We would rather state that plainly than let you discover it after signing.
Documents
Take it away with you
Everything here is printable and works on a kitchen table with no signal. Where a document asks for an email address, it says so on the button rather than after you press it.
One Map, Four Nations: Building a Canonical Field Boundary Record
The practical handbook for land & mapping: what the rules require, what the evidence has to show, and the mistakes that cost people money.
land & mapping — evidence checklist
Every document an audit or a claim asks for, in the order it is asked for, with the validity period of each.
land & mapping — record template
The record structure the module uses, as a spreadsheet, so a business not yet on the platform can start keeping it correctly today.
Data model reference
Entities, fields and integration points for land & mapping, for advisers and software partners.
See Land & Mapping running on your own holding
Thirty minutes, using your parcels, your schemes and your enterprises rather than a sample farm. No obligation and no sales script — if it does not fit your business we will say so.
- Free tier available
- No card required
- Your data stays yours