Civil Tips & Tools

Knowledge base + forum for the ESPO Engineering CAD team. Tips, tricks, and gotchas for the third-party tools we use to do civil/utility design work.

Sidwell Maps

Parcel data, plat maps, ownership boundaries.

Open docs

Google Earth Pro

Quick visual context, KML/KMZ exchange, historical imagery.

Open docs

Nearmaps

High-resolution aerial, oblique views, AI feature extraction.

Open docs

County GIS / ArcGIS / QGIS

Authoritative parcels, zoning, easements, floodplain. Portals + desktop GIS.

Open docs

Forum & contribution

Half-formed ideas, questions, and “this burned me” reports go in the forum. Polished tips graduate into the markdown docs via a PR. The forum runs on Forgejo issues — in-app surface here so you don’t need to leave the team app.

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Source & full docs: https://forgejo.espodev.com/espo-engineering/civil-tips-tools

Civil Tips & Tools

Knowledge base + forum for the ESPO Engineering CAD team. Tips, tricks, and gotchas for the third-party tools we use to do civil/utility design work.

Sidwell Maps

Parcel data, plat maps, ownership boundaries.

Open docs

Google Earth Pro

Quick visual context, KML/KMZ exchange, historical imagery.

Open docs

Nearmaps

High-resolution aerial, oblique views, AI feature extraction.

Open docs

County GIS / ArcGIS / QGIS

Authoritative parcels, zoning, easements, floodplain. Portals + desktop GIS.

Open docs

Forum & contribution

Open a thread Browse the forum How the forum works

Source & full docs: https://forgejo.espodev.com/espo-engineering/civil-tips-tools