A home is the largest purchase most people ever make, and the information that decides whether it is a good one is scattered across a dozen government sites — if you know which dozen. FloodLens puts the mapped hazard and planning picture for a Queensland address in one place, in about ten seconds.
We found a house we loved. Right photos, right price, right suburb. It was a long drive away, and we had the weekend blocked out to go and see it.
Before we left, we ran the address through the tool we had been building for ourselves. It wasn't suitable — and we could see exactly why, on a map, from the state's own data.
We crossed it off and never made the drive. That is the whole idea: not to talk anyone out of a house, but to find out before you have spent the weekend, the fuel and the emotional energy falling in love with it.
We are a husband and wife, both scientists, and we were doing exactly what you are probably doing now: trying to find a family home, with a young daughter, and trying to make a sensible decision with the evidence available.
What we found was that the evidence was available — Queensland publishes an enormous amount of it — but no single place would give it to us for one address. We were reading flood overlays on one site, bushfire mapping on another, planning zones on a third, and trying to hold it all in our heads while a contract clock ran down.
So we built the thing we wanted to exist. We are not a property company and we do not sell leads to anyone. We built it because we needed it.
For a specific address — not a suburb average — FloodLens shows you:
Every layer is from an official source with a licence that permits this use: the Queensland Government, individual councils, the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Geoscience Australia and the national address file. We keep a public register of every dataset, its custodian, its currency date and its licence.
Nothing in a FloodLens report is our opinion of a property. It is what the mapping says, attributed to whoever published it.
We would rather tell you this now than have you find out later.
Search any Queensland address and see the mapped picture for yourself.