Project-based field mapping
Project field mapping without scattered apps.
Created by a professional land surveyor, Surveyor's Edge brings real field priorities into one mobile project workflow—navigation, alignments, photos, tracks, layers, coordinates, offline maps, and shareable deliverables without jumping between scattered apps.
Surveyor's Edge helps organize, transform, display, and document project coordinate data. Final positional accuracy depends on the source data, active coordinate system, localization quality, device GPS accuracy, GPS hardware, and field procedures.
Alignments
Know where you are along the design line.
For corridors, roads, utilities, drainage, construction, inspection, and layout support, Surveyor's Edge keeps design-line context front and center—where station and offset often matter more than raw latitude and longitude.
- Station and offset awarenessReference your position relative to the active alignment, view station/offset context, and display alignment station text at any user-defined interval.
- True alignment geometryCreate and import alignments from LandXML and DXF while preserving real lines and true arcs instead of reducing curves to segmented approximations. KML and KMZ alignment data can also be imported.
- Field-ready map contextView points, photos, tracks, basemaps, and imported CAD/GIS layers around the active alignment.
Photos
Turn field photos into useful project records.
Surveyor's Edge turns field photos into project documentation with descriptions, notes, coordinates, heading, alignment references, KML location sharing, and optional company branding.
- Custom image stampingStamp photos with notes, descriptions, geographic and project coordinates, heading, and alignment references when available.
- Map-ready sharingShare photo locations as KML, package photo records for review, or send individual images by text message or email attachment.
- Logo-branded deliverablesPromote your company by placing your logo directly on stamped photo output.
Tracks
Record where you went and keep working offline.
Track logging and offline map tools help document field movement, site walks, remote routes, and large-area work—even when a reliable data connection is not guaranteed.
- Track capture and cleanupRecord paths, edit and clean them, and convert useful field routes into alignments.
- Targeted offline tilesSave disk space by downloading only the map tiles you need with rectangle, traced polygon, or alignment-buffer selections.
- Useful for more than surveyingA practical fit for survey crews, inspectors, construction teams, hikers, and remote outdoor enthusiasts.
Layers
Bring GIS and CAD context into the field.
Bring CAD, GIS, raster, and map background data into the field, then control exactly how it displays. Layers can represent projected, geographic, or local-coordinate data depending on the source and project setup.
- Common field data formatsBring in SHP, DXF, MBTiles, KML, and KMZ project data for practical field reference.
- Live layer arrangementReorder layers in real time, turn them on or off individually, and quickly see whether each layer is visible, hidden, scale-limited, or waiting on localization.
- Customizable layer stylingGive point, line, and polygon features their own styles with point symbols, colors, palettes, line weights, fills, and transparency controls.
- Coordinate-aware displayProject layers on the fly using coordinate-system metadata, including projected, geographic, and localized site-coordinate sources.
Coordinates
Built for jobs that do not live in simple latitude and longitude.
Many real projects use State Plane, UTM, custom projections, low-distortion projections, or local site grids. Surveyor's Edge keeps those coordinate choices visible and manageable.
- Projected coordinate supportWork with built-in UTM and State Plane projection libraries, many other common projections, or import a projection definition by EPSG code.
- Custom projection builderDefine your own custom projections to support modern low-distortion projections (LDPs) and common projection families including Lambert Conformal Conic, Transverse Mercator, and Oblique Mercator.
- Localization / calibration supportImport or create localizations/calibrations that transform local site coordinates into project-aware projected coordinate values.
Sharing
Move field data into office workflows.
The end of the story is not just collection. Surveyor's Edge is designed to package field information so it can be reviewed, archived, shared, mapped, and used by the broader team.
- Project-centered exportsKeep photos, points, tracks, alignments, and supporting files organized around the active project.
- Photos, points, tracks, and KMLMove field records into practical mapping and office workflows with shareable formats such as KML, CSV-style point exports, and project packages.
- Field-to-office continuityUse collected information to support GIS review, project documentation, quality checks, and team decisions after the field work is complete.