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.
Google Earth Pro
Quick visual context, KML/KMZ exchange, historical imagery.
Nearmaps
High-resolution aerial, oblique views, AI feature extraction.
County GIS / ArcGIS / QGIS
Authoritative parcels, zoning, easements, floodplain. Portals + desktop GIS.
Forum & contribution
Half-formed ideas, questions, and “this burned me” reports go in the issue tracker with one of four templates. Polished tips graduate into the markdown docs via a PR.