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Every layer in the bundle.

One area, eight layers, 32 files in 15 formats, and CAD drawings. Elevation, imagery, building models, and more, every bundle layer built complete with every order whatever the size. Public-record layers such as parcels, zoning, and US flood zones come free on top.

what you get

Eight data layers

Elevation/

Elevation

The shape of the ground, and the analysis layers computed from it. This is the layer everything else is registered against.

  • Elevation/DEM.tifElevation model in your order’s units, ready for GIS and grading
  • Elevation/Terrain/3D terrain tiles for the web and Cesium
  • Elevation/Heightmap.png16-bit heightmap for game engine landscapes
  • Elevation/Hillshade.tifShaded relief for presentation and context
  • Elevation/Slope.tifSlope in degrees, for buildability and drainage
  • Elevation/Aspect.tifSlope direction, for solar and exposure studies
  • Elevation/SteepSlope.gpkgSteep ground as polygons you can measure

Global. Every order gets the finest native resolution available for its area: down to 1 m across much of the populated United States and Europe, and 30 m elsewhere. US heights are NAVD88 in CAD, BIM, and GIS files.

Public domain in the continental US (USGS 3DEP). CC-BY elsewhere: Copernicus and national elevation models, via Mapterhorn.

Imagery/

Imagery

What the site looks like from above, as web tiles, as a raw georeferenced GeoTIFF, and as a texture aligned to the terrain.

  • Imagery/Imagery.pmtilesImagery as web tiles
  • Imagery/Imagery.tifRaw imagery GeoTIFF at native resolution
  • Imagery/Drape.pngTerrain-aligned drape texture
  • Imagery/NDVI.tifVegetation index, for greenery and health studies

Aerial imagery at 1 m or finer across the United States. Everywhere else falls back automatically to 10 m satellite imagery, and the manifest records which one you got.

Public domain (USDA NAIP) and ESA Free and Open (Sentinel-2).

Basemap/

Basemap

The Stylized map, in the Dark or Light look you chose, rendered from OpenStreetMap roads, water, labels, and more, for context under everything else.

  • Basemap/Basemap.pmtilesStylized map tiles
  • Basemap/Basemap.tifStylized map GeoTIFF, lined up with the imagery
  • Basemap/Drape.pngStylized map drape texture, with no labels

Global.

ODbL. The rendered tiles ship as a Produced Work.

Vector/

Vector features

The real features behind the basemap as editable geometry: building footprints, roads as centrelines and surfaces, water, and more.

  • Vector/All layers as GeoPackage
  • Vector/All layers as GeoJSON
  • Vector/All layers as Shapefile
  • Vector/All layers as FlatGeobuf

Global.

ODbL 1.0. Delivered as a licensed Derivative Database with attribution preserved, so onward sharing carries the same licence.

Mesh/

Meshes

The terrain and the buildings as 3D geometry, ready to drop into a scene without conversion.

  • Mesh/Terrain.glbTextured terrain mesh
  • Mesh/Terrain.objTerrain mesh for older CAD and DCC tools
  • Mesh/Terrain.usdzTerrain mesh for USD pipelines
  • Mesh/Buildings.glbBuilding massing mesh

Global. Buildings are extruded from footprints, so an area with none reports no footprints rather than failing.

Produced Work, baked from ODbL footprints and the elevation model.

Surface/

Surfaces

The ground as CAD and BIM exchange geometry: contours, a triangulated surface, and the points to rebuild it natively.

  • Surface/Contours.dxfContour lines with relief-adaptive intervals
  • Surface/Surface.landxmlCivil 3D surface
  • Surface/Surface.dxf3D surface for the CAD-native route
  • Surface/SurfacePoints.csvPoints Revit triangulates into an editable toposurface

Global, wherever elevation is available.

The same licence as the elevation model it is derived from.

Site/

Site model

The terrain and building massing together as one georeferenced BIM model, openable in Revit natively.

  • Site/Site.ifcIFC4 site model with terrain and massing

Global, with the same footprint rule as the building mesh.

Produced Work, from the same sources as the terrain and building meshes.

Landcover/

Land cover

What is on the ground rather than its shape: surface classes, water, vegetation height, and the material weights that paint a landscape.

  • Landcover/LandCover.tifLand cover classes at 10 m
  • Landcover/WaterMask.tifWater mask for flattening and shorelines
  • Landcover/MaterialWeights.tifSurface material weights for landscape painting
  • Landcover/CanopyHeight.tifTree canopy height
  • Landcover/TreePoints.csvTree positions, heights, crowns, and foliage type for scattering

Global. Canopy height has occasional gaps in the source tiles, and the manifest reports them rather than filling them in.

CC-BY (ESA WorldCover, Meta and WRI canopy), plus Produced Works derived from OpenStreetMap.

also in the bundle

Drawings and a Site Brief

Bundles also carry your site drawn as CAD linework and plan sheets, and a Site Brief: the site’s facts with maps, charts, and the sun path, ready to print. Free or paid, at no extra cost.

Drawings/

Drawings

Buildings, roads, contours, and more, drawn in real projected coordinates in metres or feet. One CAD file on named layers, and a plan sheet at two sizes with a north arrow, scale bar, legend, and title strip.

  • Drawings/Linework.dxfGeoreferenced CAD linework on named layers, with a layout tab for each sheet size
  • Drawings/SitePlan-Small.pdfPlan sheet on A3 or 11×17, ready to print
  • Drawings/SitePlan-Small.svgThe small sheet as clean vectors to edit
  • Drawings/SitePlan-Large.pdfPlan sheet on A0 or ARCH E, ready to print
  • Drawings/SitePlan-Large.svgThe large sheet as clean vectors to edit

Global, drawn from what your area has: a site with no mapped buildings shows none. Each sheet takes the largest standard scale that fits your area: 1:500 to 1:50,000 on a metric order, 1″=50′ to 1″=4000′ on a feet order.

ODbL 1.0, like the vector features they are drawn from, with the attribution on every sheet and in the DXF.

Brief/

Site Brief

The same Site Brief you see before checkout, as a document: the site’s area, relief, slope, and land cover, with maps, charts, and the sun path.

  • Brief/SiteBrief.pdfYour site’s facts, maps, and sun path as a printable brief

Written for your area from the layers in the bundle, wherever they have data.

Each source credited on the page, under its own terms, like the layers it summarises.

sample sites

Open a real bundle before you draw your own

Each sample is a real bundle for a fixed site, built the way every order is built. Pick a site and a workflow, and download it now with no account and no wait.

free on top

Public-record layers

Site constraints from public records, passed through as the record holder published them, free on every order and not part of what an order buys. Where a source covers your area, flood zones, parcels, and zoning come built in.

Records/Flood/

Flood zones

Regulatory flood hazard areas and base flood elevations, for feasibility and due diligence.

  • Records/Flood/FloodZones.gpkgFEMA flood zones

United States only. An area outside FEMA coverage is reported as uncovered, never as an empty result.

Public domain (FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer).

Records/Parcels/

Parcels

Parcel boundaries with their parcel numbers and site addresses, as the state or county publishes them. No owner names, mailing addresses, sales or valuations.

  • Records/Parcels/Parcels.gpkgParcel boundaries and attributes
  • Records/Parcels/Parcels.dxfParcel linework for CAD, in your delivery units

States and counties with an open parcel layer. An area outside every source is reported as uncovered, never as an empty result. Not a survey, not a legal determination.

The record holder’s own terms, named per source in the bundle’s citations. A source that publishes no licence is labelled as public record.

Records/Zoning/

Zoning

Zoning districts with the city’s own codes and names, each linked to the ordinance that governs it. Rules such as height travel only where the city publishes them as data; the ordinance is the authority for the rest.

  • Records/Zoning/Zoning.gpkgZoning districts, codes and ordinance links
  • Records/Zoning/Zoning.dxfDistrict linework for CAD, in your delivery units

Cities and counties that publish zoning districts openly. An area outside every source is reported as uncovered, never as an empty result. Not a survey, not a legal determination.

The record holder’s own terms, named per source in the bundle’s citations. A source that publishes no licence is labelled as public record.

Records/Habitat/

Critical habitat

Critical habitat for threatened and endangered species, as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service publishes it: the species, the unit and the Federal Register citation of the rule.

  • Records/Habitat/Habitat.gpkgCritical habitat units, species and rule citations
  • Records/Habitat/Habitat.dxfHabitat linework for CAD, in your delivery units

The United States and its territories. An area with no designated critical habitat is reported as such, never as an unchecked area.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s own disclaimer travels with every file and is repeated in the bundle’s citations. The service states no licence.

Records/Historic/

Historic

Properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places, from the National Park Service, with the agency’s own reference number, name and certification date. A listing is a record, not a review determination.

  • Records/Historic/Historic.gpkgNational Register listings, points and boundaries
  • Records/Historic/Historic.dxfListing linework and points for CAD, in your delivery units

Every US order, from the National Park Service’s one national source. Only the public listings the agency publishes; an area with none is reported as having none, never as uncovered.

A US government work, passed through with the National Park Service’s own disclaimer, which is named in the bundle’s citations.

Records/Wetlands/

Wetlands

Wetland polygons from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Wetlands Inventory, with each wetland’s type and Cowardin code as the agency publishes them. A biological map of wetlands, not a regulatory one: it is not a jurisdictional determination.

  • Records/Wetlands/Wetlands.gpkgWetland polygons, types and Cowardin codes
  • Records/Wetlands/Wetlands.dxfWetland linework for CAD, in your delivery units

The United States. An area outside the 50 states and DC is reported as uncovered, never as an empty result. The agency’s own disclaimer rides every file.

A U.S. Government work, published with no licence; labelled as public record in the bundle’s citations.

Records/Contamination/

Contamination

Superfund site boundaries and brownfields properties, as the Environmental Protection Agency publishes them, with the agency’s own site identifiers and record links. A listing is a record, not a finding about any property.

  • Records/Contamination/Contamination.gpkgSuperfund site boundaries and brownfields points
  • Records/Contamination/Contamination.dxfSite linework for CAD, in your delivery units

United States only. An area outside EPA coverage is reported as uncovered, never as an empty result. The agency’s own disclaimer travels with every file.

Public domain (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency).

Records/Hydrography/

Hydrography

Rivers, streams, canals and water bodies from the U.S. Geological Survey’s 3D Hydrography Program, with their names and feature types. A site constraint to design around, not a basemap.

  • Records/Hydrography/Hydrography.gpkgFlowlines and water bodies, with attributes
  • Records/Hydrography/Hydrography.dxfWater linework for CAD, in your delivery units

United States only. An area the service cannot answer is reported as uncovered, never as an empty result. Not a survey, not a regulatory determination.

Public domain (U.S. Geological Survey). The agency’s own disclaimer travels with the files.

Records/Soils/

Soils

Soil map unit polygons with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service’s own attributes, such as drainage class and hydrologic group, exactly as it publishes them. Nothing is rated or interpreted for you.

  • Records/Soils/Soils.gpkgSoil map units and NRCS attributes
  • Records/Soils/Soils.dxfMap unit linework for CAD, in your delivery units

Most of the United States, wherever NRCS has published a soil survey. An area with no published survey ships no Soils files, and the bundle says so. For planning, not a substitute for onsite testing.

A US government work (NRCS SSURGO). NRCS’s own use constraints travel with the files.

Records/Protected/

Protected areas

Protected areas and easements from the U.S. Geological Survey’s Protected Areas Database of the United States: parks, forests, refuges, conservation easements, and more, with the manager and designation the record states. The name of an easement is left blank, because it can be a private landowner’s.

  • Records/Protected/Protected.gpkgProtected area and easement boundaries and attributes
  • Records/Protected/Protected.dxfBoundary linework for CAD, in your delivery units

The United States. An area outside the database is reported as uncovered, never as an empty result. Easement boundaries are not a title search.

Public domain (U.S. Geological Survey). Every file carries the data release’s own disclaimer, word for word.

how downloads work

Complete at order, downloaded your way

  • Every order is built complete: every layer in every format, at no extra cost. Public-record layers come built in, free, wherever a source covers your area.
  • Download the set for your tool from your vault: Real-time, BIM, CAD, GIS, or Everything. Meshes, buildings, grids, and trees also come at more than one quality level, so the download fits the tool.
  • Files are organized by layer, one folder per kind of data, with a manifest that records the source, the resolution, and the licence of everything inside.

geotiff dem · imagery cog · png heightmap · hillshade · slope · aspect · steep slope · dxf contours · landxml · surface dxf · surface points · glb · obj · usdz · buildings glb · ifc site model · gpkg · geojson · shapefile · flatgeobuf · pmtiles · stylized map geotiff · stylized map drape · imagery tiles · imagery drape · cesium 3d tiles · ndvi · land cover · water mask · material weights · canopy height · tree points · dxf linework · plan sheets pdf · plan sheets svg · site brief pdf

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questions

Frequently asked

What data comes in a bundle?

Eight layers for the area you draw: elevation, imagery, building models, and more, as 32 files in 15 formats, plus CAD drawings and a printable Site Brief. All of it is built with every order. Flood zones, parcels, and zoning come free on top as public-record layers, wherever a source covers your area.

Do I have to choose which layers I want?

No. There is no picker and no bundle tier. Every order is entitled to every bundle layer in every format, and the size of the area you draw is the only thing that sets the price.

Are flood zones, parcels, and zoning part of what I pay for?

No. They are public-record layers, passed through as the record holder publishes them and free on any order. They arrive with the bundle wherever a source covers your area.

Do I have to download all 32 files?

No. Pick a workflow, such as Real-time, BIM, CAD, or GIS, and the download holds what that tool needs. Everything is one click away.

Do I get 2D drawings for CAD and print?

Yes, at no extra cost. The bundle includes a Drawings folder with Linework.dxf, georeferenced CAD linework on named layers, and a plan sheet at two sizes, each as a PDF to print and an SVG to edit. Each sheet is scaled automatically and carries a north arrow, scale bar, legend, and title strip.

Do you have building footprints for anywhere in the world?

Building coverage follows OpenStreetMap, so dense urban areas are well mapped and rural ones may have few or no footprints. When an area has none, the bundle says so rather than shipping an empty building model.

Can I use the vector features commercially?

Yes, with one condition. The vector features are delivered as a licensed Derivative Database under ODbL 1.0, so you keep attribution and pass the same licence on if you redistribute the data itself. The rasters and meshes have no such condition.

What happens where a layer has no data for my area?

The manifest records the reason explicitly, separating a genuinely empty result from an area the source does not cover. Flood zones outside the United States are reported as uncovered, and nothing is silently dropped or padded.

Draw an area and take the whole catalog.

Every bundle layer on this page comes with every order, and the public-record layers are free on top. Anything 2 km² and under is free.

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