📋 Before you start
What the map is for.
The Farm Map draws your actual paddock shapes onto satellite imagery, so the paddock records stop being a list of names and become a picture of your block. It's the difference between "Front flat, rested 34 days" and seeing where Front flat is, how big it is, and what's next to it.
It's genuinely useful for planning a rotation, for showing someone else round the place without walking it, and for working out roughly how big a paddock is when you never measured it.
🔌 Turning it on
Farm Map is off by default for new accounts and lives in Settings → What do you track?. If you can't see it in the menu, that's why. Tick it there and it appears.
Set your paddocks up first. The map draws boundaries and attaches them to paddock records — so having the paddocks already created in the Paddocks section makes this much smoother.
1️⃣ Getting your bearings
Finding your block on the map.
Open Farm Map from the menu. Controls across the top:
- 📍 Find my location — jumps the map to where you are. Easily the fastest way to find your block the first time, especially if you're standing on it.
- 🛰 Satellite — toggles between satellite imagery and a plain map. Satellite is what you want for drawing; fence lines, tracks and tree lines are usually visible.
- Fullscreen — worth using while drawing.
2️⃣ Drawing a paddock
Tap the corners, finish, link it.
Tap ✏️ Draw paddock. The draw bar appears and you tap each corner of the paddock in turn. As you go:
- The point count shows how many corners you've placed.
- ↶ Undo removes the last point — use it freely, misplaced taps are normal.
- ✓ Finish closes the shape when you're back to the start.
- Cancel abandons it.
On finishing you're asked to link the boundary to a paddock — choose an existing one from the list, or type a name to create a new paddock there and then.
📐 It works out the size for you
The drawn shape gives an area, and if that paddock has no size recorded the app fills it in. A size you entered yourself is never overwritten — if you've measured it properly, your number stands. For most people who've never measured, this is the easiest way to get real paddock sizes into the app, which then unlocks kg DM figures in pasture cover.
3️⃣ Fixing a boundary
Redrawing one you got wrong.
Draw the new shape as normal, then pick that paddock from the list — every paddock is offered, with already-mapped ones marked "replace existing boundary". Because replacing is destructive, the app asks you to confirm before it overwrites.
There's no need to delete anything first, and no way to end up with a paddock you can't re-map.
4️⃣ Using it day to day
Once your block is drawn.
The map lists your mapped paddocks alongside it, and paddocks link through to the map so you can jump from a record to its position. Combined with paddock statuses, it turns "which one's ready?" into something you can see rather than read.
You don't have to map everything at once. Do the ones you rotate through first; the odd corner block can wait.
✅ What the app does vs what you do
The honest split.
My Block Hand handles: satellite and plain map views; locating you; boundary drawing with undo; linking a boundary to a new or existing paddock; area calculation into empty size fields; and safe replacement of a boundary you want to redraw.
You still have to: draw the shapes — nobody can do that for you; keep your own measured sizes if you have them; and remember the areas are as accurate as your tapping, which is fine for management and not a substitute for a survey.
This guide describes My Block Hand as at July 2026. Mapped areas are calculated from the shape you draw and are for farm management use — they are not a legal or surveyed boundary.