Lay a floorplan over a satellite photo of the property

A floorplan can now be placed on the earth, which gives you two things: a satellite photograph of the property laid under your drawing, and a marker showing a reader roughly where they are standing.

Placing it

On the Location tab, start typing the address and pick it out of the suggestions, or paste a latitude and longitude. Placing a plan on its own changes nothing a renter sees. Take it off the map removes the placement and switches off everything that depended on it.

Lining it up

Fit to the building is worth trying first. It looks up the real outline of the building at the plan coordinate and works out the position, bearing and scale that put your drawing on it, then tells you what it matched against. Two things it cannot know: a rectangle looks the same turned half way round, so a plan can come out backwards, and a new build or a rural property may have no outline to fit to at all. It says so when that happens.

For the rest there is Line it up in the drawing toolbar, which puts the controls beside the plan where you can watch what you are doing. Drag the imagery under the drawing, set which way is up to a tenth of a degree, and nudge the scale. Because geometry is stored in real feet or metres rather than pixels, a plan drawn to scale lands at the right size with no calibration.

Two switches help when you are tracing a real building off imagery: Snap to the grid and Magnets can both be turned off, because the true corners of a building are nowhere near round numbers.

What a renter gets

None of it reaches the public page until you turn it on. Show the satellite view on the public page is the master switch, and under it you decide whether the page opens on the aerial, whether the reader gets a button to switch it off, and how strongly the photograph shows through. Leaving the reader button on is worth it, since aerial imagery is sometimes a few years old and can show a car park where the building now stands.

Offer the you-are-here marker puts a Where am I button on the published plan. Be realistic about what it is good for: phone positioning is typically accurate to a handful of metres outdoors and much worse indoors, so it helps somebody work out which building they are beside on a site plan and will not find a room inside a suite. The page draws the accuracy ring rather than a bare dot, and refuses to place a marker at all when the fix is too rough to mean anything.