About MapTools for Australia

MapTools for Australia is the Australian branch of the MapTools family - free, privacy-first mapping tools, already running at maptools.uk for the UK and at maptools.co for the US. This page is here early, before any AU tools have shipped, so you know it's genuinely in progress rather than parked.

What's being built

The first wave is centred on Australian postcodes and straight-line distance - see the homepage for the current toolset preview. Every tool is built specifically for Australia, using Australian data, not a US or UK tool with the units swapped.

Where the data comes from

Address and postcode data comes from Australian sources built for this purpose: the Geoscape Geocoded National Address File (G-NAF), licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Postal Areas boundaries. Both are used under their respective open-data licences, with proper attribution on the tools that use them once they ship.

Privacy First

Same principle as our US and UK sites: free tools run in your browser, and what you type into them isn't sent to our servers or logged. Full detail is in our Privacy Policy, which currently covers the whole maptools.co domain including this section.

Who's building this

MapTools is built and maintained by Dan. The AU site is a deliberate extension of the existing US and UK sites, not a separate project - same privacy-first principles, same free-forever model, built properly for Australian data rather than rushed out.

Get in touch

Got a tool you'd want to see first, or spotted something off with this page? Our contact page reaches the same inbox as our US and UK sites.