For students and design professionals

Stop collecting
Start designing

Every layer for any US address, assembled and dated. Choose what belongs in your drawing, take it out to CAD or Rhino, and spend the afternoon on the work that's actually yours.

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7export formats
…curated towns
170+data layers
…features curated

What you can do

Four things, done properly.

Pull a titled sheet for a crit, a clean figure ground for a board, a CAD package that matches the office standard, or a Rhino model to build on. Not a general purpose GIS with a hundred buttons: four deliverables that match what a site analysis actually needs, each one already set up so you are not choosing a DPI before you have seen anything.

Site plan sheet

A titled, scaled PDF with north arrow, legend and source note. Set to a real drawing scale, not "fit to page".

PDF

Figure–ground

Footprints solid on white. The Nolli drawing, clean enough to drop straight onto a board without redrawing it.

PNG · SVG

CAD package

Layered DXF, organised by discipline: parcels, buildings, roads, contours, so it arrives in AutoCAD already sorted.

DXF

Rhino site model

Terrain and extruded massing as real geometry on named layers, in declared units. Model on top of it, don't rebuild it.

3DM

Where it comes from

Sourced, dated, and yours to cite.

Every layer carries its origin and the date it was pulled. Nothing here is modelled, weighted or scored. If a number appears on your screen, it was counted, and you can say where it came from in a review.

  • Parcels & assessingState and municipal open data
  • Buildings & streetsOverture + OpenStreetMap
  • Wetlands & floodUSFWS NWI · FEMA NFHL
  • DemographicsCensus ACS · LODES
  • TerrainUSGS 3DEP LiDAR
  • ZoningAdopted municipal ordinances
Layers stack in the order a drawing needs them: context underneath, constraints on top.

Questions

Before you sign in.

Do I need a GIS background to use this?

No. Search a town, draw the area you care about, and export. The curation and the export presets are the GIS knowledge, already done, so you don't have to bring it.

What towns do you cover?

The whole US, on request. The live count above is what's built out in depth right now; if your town isn't in it, create a free account and request it from inside the app and we'll add it.

What can I actually export?

A titled PDF site plan sheet, a figure-ground image (PNG or SVG), a layered DXF for CAD, and a Rhino .3dm site model with real terrain and massing geometry. See "What you can do" above.

Do I have to pay?

Looking around costs nothing and never needs a card. An account is only required to pull a file out. See our Pricing page for where that stands today.

Is this just for students?

No. Built for design professionals as much as students: studios and practices of any size use the same tool. Read why we built it if you're curious where that started.

What happens to my data?

Signing in creates one Synthetic Schematics account. The same login works across every tool we build, not just this one. We don't sell it. See our privacy policy for the specifics.