Free beta · Victoria and NSW

Official site data,
ready for your design software.

Pick a site. OpenFetch gathers terrain, buildings, trees and 2D linework from government and council open data, and hands you one tidy, layered file in true MGA coordinates and AHD heights.

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Free, no sign-up, runs in your browser.

Files forRhinoAutoCADRevitArchicadVectorworksSketchUp ProQGIS

OpenFetch showing a site in Melbourne: the layer list on the left, the 3D preview of terrain, buildings and trees on the right

A quick tour

From an address to a site model in four moves

Everything runs in your browser. The data comes straight from the official portals to you.

  1. 01

    Find your site

    Type an address, a lot and plan or coordinates. A 400 m site box drops on the spot. Need another size? Draw your own; the box only moves when you move it.

    Typing an address in OpenFetch; the map flies to the site and a site box appears
  2. 02

    Tick what you need

    Terrain, 3D buildings, trees and survey marks are one tick each. Find 2D layers with plain words like kerb, parcel or zoning. Layers with nothing on your site are greyed out before you ask.

    Ticking terrain, buildings and trees, then searching 2D layers by keyword
  3. 03

    Check it before you save

    Preview every layer on the map, in plan and as a 3D model. The terrain is checked against the survey marks on your site, so you see problems before your model does.

    The preview loading, then the site shown in 3D with terrain, buildings and trees
  4. 04

    Download one tidy file

    A Rhino .3dm, a DXF for AutoCAD, Revit, Archicad, Vectorworks or SketchUp Pro, or GeoJSON for QGIS and ArcGIS. All in MGA metres and AHD heights, with layers named and coloured, and every source and licence written inside.

The problem

Site data is free. Getting it into your design software is not.

The data is all out there, but it is scattered across state portals, council websites and federal services, and every one speaks a different language.

Hunting
Parcels from the state, trees from the council, terrain from a federal service. Each one a new site, a new search, a new download.
Converting
Shapefiles, KML, GeoTIFF, CSV. GDA94 and GDA2020, degrees and metres, ellipsoid and AHD heights. A 1.5 m shift between two grids is easy to miss.
Redrawing
Contours that float above the ground, buildings with no heights, a hundred layers called Layer 01. Then the real design work can start.
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The relief

One box in. One organised file out.

OpenFetch does the fetching and the tidying. It reads government and council data by default, puts every layer in your region's survey grid and checks it before you download.

True position and height
GDA2020 / MGA coordinates in metres and AHD heights. Contours lie on the terrain, and the terrain is checked against published survey marks on every export.
Every source written down
Each file records who publishes each layer, its licence and date, so you can cite it and check it later.
Community data only if you ask
OpenStreetMap can fill gaps, but it is off by default and clearly labelled as not official.

Coverage

Where it works

One engine, one region pack per place. More regions are coming.

Victoria

  • Vicmap and DataVic state data
  • Every council's open data through data.gov.au
  • Geoscience Australia 5 m LiDAR terrain
  • City of Melbourne surveyed building heights

GDA2020 · MGA 54 / 55 · AHD

New South Wales

  • NSW Spatial Services (GDA2020)
  • NSW Planning Portal, incl. height limits
  • 5 m elevation grid
  • City of Sydney trees with height and canopy

GDA2020 · MGA 54 / 55 / 56 · AHD

See every data source and licence

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