DirtFlight is not a drone photography service. To get aerial photos of land in Massachusetts, enter the county and the APN, or draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. The pack renders in about ten minutes: an outlined top down, four cardinal 3D views, an 18 second orbit video, a hosted listing page and a parcel info sheet, with full resolution files of every view. Nobody flies out, so there is no travel charge, and it works anywhere in Massachusetts. Dirt is $29 a parcel and Paydirt $79, or $199 a month for PayDirt Pro (20 Paydirt packs a month). Paydirt adds a contour map, the road frontage hero, the infrared land health view, the full social kit with platform captions, a posting plan and silent reels, pop-out photos from nine directions, the interactive 3D explorer and the measured diligence layers.
- Coverage
- All of Massachusetts
- Turnaround
- About 10 minutes
- Travel charge
- None, ever
- Imagery age
- One to three years
Small lots where the neighbors are the context.
Most Massachusetts land trades in single lots, and what matters is the surroundings: what abuts, where the wetland sits, how the frontage meets the road, whether the buildable part is the front or the back. A photo of a stone wall and some oaks does not answer any of it. Buildable: ground outside mapped slope, flood and wetland areas. A screen, not a zoning, septic or permit approval.
A lot in Berkshire County renders in the same ten minutes as one in Bristol County, and wetland, stone wall lines and cleared area read clearly from above.
Boundaries are approximate and are not a survey.
One parcel. Everything below.
One parcel. Oak and pine across most of it, wetland in the back corner, and town road frontage along the south line.
Everything in the pack
This is the whole Massachusetts delivery.
Every view below came back from one parcel, in about ten minutes, with no pilot and no site visit.
Where Massachusetts land actually trades.
These are the counties land buyers ask about most.
Any Massachusetts county works: type the parcel number, draw the boundary on the map, or upload a KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or zipped shapefile. Try your APN free, and if a parcel will not come up from its number you hear that before anything is charged.
What to know before you order a Massachusetts parcel.
- Coverage
- Any Massachusetts county works: type the APN, draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. See coverage.
- Common land
- Wooded lots, wetlands and swamp, old fields and small farms, hillside in the west, and land on the Cape and Islands.
- Typical uses
- Building lots, woodland and conservation land, small farms, and land held for later division.
- Reads well from above
- Wetland and its edge, ledge and slope, stone walls and old field lines, and the frontage a lot has on its road.
- Your parcel number
- The number to look for is the map and lot or the parcel ID on the town record.
- Boundary and imagery
- The boundary is approximate and is not a survey. Imagery is the most recent aerial available for that county, usually one to three years old.
Rules for splitting a Massachusetts tract differ by county, so start with the county planning office. How to subdivide land walks through the steps, subdivide land photos renders a pack for every lot from a plat or a drawn split, and land home packages screens where a home can go on a lot.
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Asked by people selling Massachusetts ground.
Which Massachusetts counties can you do?
Any Massachusetts county works. Send the county and the APN and DirtFlight renders the pack. If a parcel will not come up from its number, you hear that before anything is charged, and you can draw the boundary on the map or upload a KML, KMZ, GeoJSON or zipped shapefile instead. The pack comes back the same.
Which Massachusetts lots make sense for a pack?
Wooded lots, wetlands and swamp, old fields and small farms, hillside in the west, and land on the Cape and Islands. Typical uses there: building lots, woodland and conservation land, small farms, and land held for later division.
Will wetland show up on the imagery?
Usually yes. Wetland vegetation, sitting water and the wet dark ground read from above, and the contour map shows the low end. This is a visual read from imagery, not a wetland delineation, and buyers here should expect to order one.
Is a single wooded lot worth an aerial at all?
That is the case where it helps most. One outlined top down shows the shape, the frontage and what abuts, which is what buyers of small New England lots spend a site visit figuring out.
In Massachusetts, what is the lot number called, and what do I enter?
In Massachusetts, the number to look for is the map and lot or the parcel ID on the town record. Enter the town and the map and lot as it appears on the town tax record, or a street address, and DirtFlight draws the boundary. If a parcel will not come up from its number, you are told before anything is charged, and you can draw the boundary on the map or upload a boundary file instead.
What does a Massachusetts lot show from above?
Wetland and its edge, ledge and slope, stone walls and old field lines, and the frontage a lot has on its road. The boundary is drawn on every view, and the imagery is the most recent aerial available for that county, usually one to three years old, with the date on the pack.
List your Massachusetts parcel today.
Send the county and the APN, or draw the boundary on the map or upload a file. Free for a limited time.