Site context data for any area on Earth

Mantle Place is a spatial data platform for real-world site context. You draw any area and get it as files: elevation, imagery, vectors, and more, eight data layers in all, plus CAD drawings and a Site Brief PDF. Every order is built complete, ready for the tools you already use. Public-record layers such as US flood zones come free on top.

Yes. Every order carries editable vector features for buildings, roads, and water, building massing as meshes and a BIM site model, and lots more. The full per layer breakdown lives on the data page.

Anyone doing concept grading, planning, feasibility, design, or visualization: civil engineers, land planners, landscape architects, developers, architects, and visualization teams, and anyone who needs a real site inside their tool.

Use it for planning and concept design. It is public data, not a site survey: confirm grades and boundaries with a licensed surveyor before construction.

You pay by area only: $5 plus $2 per km², rounded up to the whole dollar, and 2 km² / 0.77 mi² and under is free. Above 2 km², the whole area is priced, so 3 km² is $11. Every format and quality level comes with every order. The price you see while drawing is the price you pay. No quote forms, no sales calls.

Yes. After you draw, a free Site Brief shows the area, relief, slope, and land cover, the buildings around it at true scale in 3D, and a sun and shadow study. No account needed. Share it with a link.

Yes. Download a sample site for your workflow, no account needed, or draw your own area, free up to 2 km² / 0.77 mi².

You pay for the processing, not the data: a free site carries the same layers and quality as a paid one.

Your card is authorized when you check out and captured only after your bundle is delivered. If delivery fails, the hold is voided and you pay nothing.

Yes. Add credit to your account by card, in whole dollars from $10 to $10,000. Larger top-ups earn bonus credit: 10% from $100 and 20% from $500. Credit never expires, and unspent purchased credit is refundable if you ask within 14 days.

Yes, including client and commercial work. Every order ships with full license attribution. Rasters, meshes, and extrusions from ODbL-licensed sources are delivered as Produced Works: rasterized, meshed, or baked so the original database structure cannot reasonably be extracted back. Share-alike does not propagate to Produced Works. The structured vector layers are the exception: they are ODbL-licensed database extracts, so share-alike applies if you adapt and redistribute that vector data as a database. Attribution obligations remain binding and are preserved in deliverable metadata.

We use open public data, and pick the best source for your area. Here is the list: Protomaps for the global vector basemap, NAIP for US aerial imagery at 1 m or finer, Sentinel-2 for 10 m satellite imagery everywhere else, USGS 3DEP for continental US terrain, Mapterhorn for terrain everywhere else, and Overture Maps and OpenStreetMap for building footprints and vector layers. Land cover comes from ESA WorldCover and Meta and WRI canopy data, and public records from agencies such as FEMA. Commercial imagery providers are planned.

Rasters as GeoTIFF. CAD as georeferenced DXF linework, contours, and LandXML surfaces, with print-ready plan sheets as PDF and SVG. BIM as an IFC site model. Meshes as OBJ, glTF, and USDZ, and more. Every format comes with every order at no extra cost; download it all, or just the files for your workflow.

A 1.44 km² / 0.56 mi² sample site is 342 MB with every file, or 96 to 204 MB for one workflow. Bigger areas make bigger files.

Metric orders use your site’s UTM zone. Imperial US orders put GIS and CAD files in your State Plane zone, in feet. Unreal content stays metric.

Yes, you can order any area in the world. The vector basemap, elevation, and building footprints are global. Imagery is tiered: aerial imagery at 1 m or finer across the US and 10 m satellite imagery everywhere else, with the best source for your area selected automatically. Imagery at 1 m or finer outside the US is planned.

Yes. The Mantle Place Importer, a free open-source plugin for Unreal 5.8 on Windows, brings your bundle in as a georeferenced, editable Landscape, terrain mesh, or static mesh with the imagery draped. Mantle Place for Revit, an open-source add-in for Revit 2025 to 2027, imports it as a toposolid with the imagery draped, plus buildings, roads, and water. Import from disk, or from your vault inside either editor. Nothing streams.

Yes. They do different jobs: Cesium for Unreal streams the wider world live; Mantle Place gives you one site as files to keep and edit. Use both.

You keep them. Every bundle downloads to your disk, with no subscription, no token, and no streaming. Paid bundles stay in your vault to re-download forever.

Yes. Areas of 2 km² / 0.77 mi² and under are $0 with the same data and quality as paid orders, and no watermark. Free bundles stay in your vault for 30 days, up to 5 at a time. Keep one permanently from your vault by paying its normal price.

No account is needed to explore, draw an area, see its price, or read its Site Brief. Checkout, free or paid, takes a verified account so your vault has an owner.

Checkout shows how long a site your size usually takes, measured from recent orders. Sites run from 0.5 km² / 0.19 mi² to 64 km² / 24.71 mi².