Comparison · Florida land
Regrid, LandGlide or a Florida-only map: which suits a Florida land buyer?
If you buy land in more than one state, or walk it where there is no signal, Regrid or LandGlide fits better: each covers the whole country for about $100 a year, and each says on its own pages that it works offline. If you buy only Florida land, a Florida-only map puts the state's checks for a lot on one screen: flood, wetlands, soils, contours, zoning and sewer or septic. Map Views does that for $47 a month, and it needs a connection.
The land checks, tool by tool
A land buyer's first questions are about the ground, not the house: will it flood, is part of it wet, what soil is under it, how high is it, what may be built, and will it need a septic system. Here is what each tool's own pages say it shows for those questions.
| Regrid | LandGlide | Map Views | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A year of use | Pro: $100 a year, or $10 a month | $99.99 a year, or $9.99 a month | $564 ($47 a month; no yearly plan) |
| Before you pay | A free Starter account, no card; its help centre says 25 property lookups a day | 7 days free | 7 days free, no card |
| Reach | The whole US | Over 3,200 counties | Florida's 67 counties only |
| Offline in the field | Its app page says yes | Its App Store listing names offline map downloads | No |
| FEMA flood zones | On Pro | A flood zone overlay | In all 67 counties |
| Wetlands | On Pro | Not stated | The national wetlands inventory |
| Soils | Not stated | Not stated | USDA soil survey map units |
| Contours | Elevation contours, on Pro | A contours overlay and a USGS topo base map | 5-foot contours from the state's 2019 LiDAR |
| Zoning | Standardized zoning, an add-on on its data pricing page | Its App Store listing names zoning and land use | 46 of 67 counties, with future land use |
| Septic or sewer | Not stated | Not stated | The state health department's wastewater map, per parcel |
| Export | Spreadsheet or spatial files on Pro; 5,000 spreadsheet rows a month, then priced per parcel | Saved locations to CSV | Up to 1,000 properties a day, no fee |
"Not stated" means the page does not say either way; the tool may still have it.
Four questions that settle it
- Is all your land in Florida? If you also buy in Georgia or Texas, a national tool covers both and ours does not. Stop here and pick Regrid or LandGlide.
- Do you stand on the land without signal? Rural tracts often have none. Both national apps say they work offline; Map Views runs in the phone's browser and needs a connection to draw the map.
- How many lots do you screen before an offer? At $100 a year, the national apps cost less than two months of ours. Ours earns its price only if the Florida layers save you from opening five other sites per lot.
- Which checks decide a deal for you? If flood and contours are enough, the national apps list both. If soils, wetlands, zoning, future land use and sewer decide it, the table shows which pages name them.
One county measured: Highlands
In Highlands County, around Sebring and Lake Placid, close to half the roll is vacant land. Here is what our map holds for those parcels, counted as the ones the 2026 roll codes vacant residential, commercial, industrial or institutional, or acreage.
| Highlands County, measured on 1 November 2026 | Parcels |
|---|---|
| All parcels on the roll | 112,748 |
| Vacant parcels | 52,898 |
| Of those, 10 acres or more | 300 |
| Touching a mapped wetland | 4,829 |
| In a FEMA special flood hazard area | 3,609 |
| With a soil survey map unit | 52,680 |
| With a zoning district | 52,617 |
| Marked known or likely on sewer by the wastewater map | 410 |
The vacant lots add up to 34,913 acres, about two-thirds of an acre each on average, and only 300 reach 10 acres: here the sewer question matters more than the acreage. Only 410 of the 52,898 are marked as on or likely on sewer, so expect to plan for a septic system and read the soil under it; the post on soil maps for septic walks through that.
What Map Views shows on a lot
Tap a parcel and the report lists the owner and mailing address, the sales, the county's values and use code, then the layers under the lot: FEMA zone, storm surge category, evacuation zone, wetland share, soil map unit, sewer or septic, zoning and future land use. Turn on contours, conservation lands or county aerials in the layer panel. The vacant land checklist lists the order to read them in.
Where it stops
- Florida only. No parcel outside the state.
- No offline mode and no app. It is a web page; without signal it cannot load the map.
- Zoning gaps. 21 counties have no zoning on the map, Hernando, Brevard and Hardee among them; their county or city zoning map has it.
- No lists and no contact data. It is for checking one parcel, and exports stop at 1,000 properties a day.
Regrid's and LandGlide's columns are what their own pages say, read on 1 November 2026. Ours were measured that day. The flood zone of record is FEMA's map, and a wetland line from the inventory is not a jurisdictional determination: a permit decision rests on a site visit by the agency.