Planning For Nature

Planning for Nature is a Crosschecker application that makes compliance uncomplicated by providing users with ecological information on their chosen areas within the state of Queensland, Australia. You can query areas by your current location, address, lot plan or utilise the custom drawing tools to specify an area! For each project you need to assess, you are able to select multiple areas and view the relevant data. This data is compiled from multiple Queensland Government data sets, which cannot currently be accessed in one central place. Some of the data sets which are interrogated by making a query include:

- Wetland Protection Areas
- Protected and Endangered Plants
- Koala Habitat Zones
- Endangered and Threatened species

As well as that, Crosschecker takes it a step further and gives you compliance information about these results as well as links to Queensland Government sites which layout the rules and regulations that may apply about doing work when within these specific areas.

Crosschecker - Planning for Nature also provides ways of maintaining this information inside projects. You can return to these projects at a later date to edit and review.

Crosschecker - Planning for Nature has the following features:
- Create a project
- View and update previous projects
- add areas to a project by the users current location, by searching for an address or lot plan, or by using the drawing tools provided
- these areas that are placed on the map return information segmented by themes. These results display information on that area such as the species found in that area, and if that area is of concern due to koala habitation, wetland protection or protected plants.
- By clicking see more information on a result it will display the information related to that theme, which gives the user compliance information as well as links to Queensland Government websites which give the user more information about the regulations regarding work on those such areas.
- If the result is a species, the user can select the external link icon in the result to link to the Queensland Government webpage on that specific species to learn more information.
- Help Page for user to learn to use the application
- Terms and Conditions page, informing the user of the terms and conditions of using Crosschecker - Planning for Nature
- link to the Crosschecker support page so that the user can lodge any issues they encounter with the application