Choosing land and building on it is personal.
On one side you have your dreams. On the other, unless you've done this before, how little you actually know.
You learn quickly that not all land is equal — like most things in life — and that a dream and a piece of ground don't always fit. So you set out to find a way to read land before you commit to it.
I looked at hundreds of plots, if not a thousand, before I chose one.
Back then I had no tools for it. I read the terrain off satellite images by drawing the contour lines myself — slope, aspect, water. A decent property might take a couple of hours to make sense of. A poor one I could rule out in minutes. Most of the search happened before I ever set foot on a site — precious time saved.
Then I bought the land, and spent time with it.
The data had shown me what walking never would — what a once-in-a-decade storm does to that slope, how far the cold really drops. Yet standing on the ground gave me what no dataset could — the feel of where the water runs, how the light moves through the year. Each caught what the other missed.
A design worth building needs both.
I developed Permalogica for the half a tool could handle. The rest is yours to walk.
You've got this.
— Hakan