Parcel Data

Property boundaries. Instant, export ready. No tracing required.

Equator gives civil engineers, land developers, and site planners instant access to million of parcel boundaries with ownership records, zoning, and legal metadata. No GIS team required.

Clip parcels in Equator

Used by 400+ civil, survey & consulting teams across North America

Why Equator

Stop digging through county GIS portals. Start designing.

Parcel data is scattered across thousands of county databases, in different formats, with inconsistent accuracy. Equator indexes it all and delivers it clipped, cleaned, and export-ready.

National US Coverage

156+ million parcel boundaries across the United States, accessible from a single search. No portal-hopping, no county-by-county requests.

CAD & GIS-ready outputs

Export boundaries as DWG, DXF, or SHP. Pre-formatted to open directly in Civil 3D, AutoCAD, ArcGIS, or QGIS without conversion.

Rich property metadata

Every parcel includes ownership records, parcel IDs, legal addresses, zoning, acreage, and census data. All in a single export.

What you can access

Every parcel product your project needs.

Pull the right data for each phase, from early site feasibility through final permitting deliverables.

Parcel Boundaries

Add all parcel boundaries within your site limits, in vector format ready for design and calculations.

✓ DWG, DXF, SHP download
✓ Clipped to your exact site
✓ US & Canada coverage

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Combine with other GIS Layers 

In addition to parcels, add other GIS data layers of interest to gain full understanding of the site and generate a CAD ready base plan.


✓ Contours, LiDAR Point Cloud and Digital Elevation Models
✓ Building Outlines, Roads, and Transportation Layers
✓ Trees, Wetlands, Soils and Environmental Layers

 

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Who it’s built for

Built for the work that happens before the design starts.

From proposals to early feasibility studies to final permitting, Equator’s parcel data fits the way land and civil teams actually work.

🏗️ Site feasibility & assembly

Identify all parcel boundaries and associated metadata in a study area before committing to a project. No GIS team or county request forms.

📐 Civil engineering & land development

Export DWG-ready parcel boundaries to seed your Civil 3D site plan. Skip manual digitizing and costly boundary surveys in the early phase.

🏘️ Real estate & due diligence

Quickly validate legal addresses, acreage, and ownership records for acquisition underwriting. Takes minutes, not days of public records research.

🌿 Environmental & permitting

Produce accurate parcel exhibits for permit submissions, environmental assessments, or easement documentation right from your existing workflow.

🔭 Surveying & field prep

Use parcel boundary data as a baseline before field crews go out , or to cross-check legal descriptions against deed records.

📋 Proposal-stage site mapping

Drop a parcel context map into your proposal in seconds , show clients you’ve already mapped the ownership picture before the kickoff call.

How it works

From site boundary to CAD-ready parcels in three steps.

1

Draw your site boundary 

Search an address, then draw your project area or drop a pin. No files to upload, no data to find. Just draw and go.

2

Preview parcel coverage

Parcels load instantly within your boundary. Click any parcel to inspect ownership records, acreage, zoning, and parcel ID before downloading.

3

Export in your format

Download as DWG, DXF, or SHP. Opens directly in Civil 3D, AutoCAD, ArcGIS, or QGIS. No conversion step required.

How it compares

There are other ways to get parcel data.

Here’s why teams switch to Equator.

Getting parcel data sounds simple, until you try.

🌐 County GIS portals
Data.gov, state portals, open data

PROS

  • Free to use

  • Wide coverage

  • Government-sourced data

PROS

  • Scattered across thousands of portals

  • No DWG or CAD export

  • Inconsistent accuracy county to county

  • No clipping to your site

  • Hours of manual work

🖥️ GIS & CAD software
ArcGIS, QGIS, Global Mapper

PROS

  • Powerful analysis tools

  • Flexible — many data types

  • Can export to DWG

PROS

  • Requires GIS expertise

  • Data still sourced separately

  • Expensive licences ($1,500+/yr)

  • Download → process → clip → export

  • Slow for feasibility or proposals

EQ Equator
Parcels, ownership & metadata in one place

WHY TEAMS CHOOSE EQUATOR

  • Data, clipping & export in one workflow

  • DWG, DXF, SHP — opens in Civil 3D

  • Clipped to your exact site

  • 156M+ US parcel boundaries

  • No GIS background required

  • Search to export in under 5 minutes

  • Free to start

What our clients say

Used by engineers doing real site work.

“I have been making basemaps for over 15 years and Equator cuts down work time like crazy… can’t quite comprehend yet how much time and frustration this saves.”

J   Jim, Architect

“I’ve got a better design and cut the project costs nearly in half — and that was all from right here at my desk.”

J Tom, Director of Real Estate

Integrations

Exports that open in the tools you already use.

No plugins. No conversion step. Formatted for your existing CAD and GIS environment.

Civil 3D
Microstation
HEC-RAS
QGIS
Infraworks
SketchUp
ArcGIS
Rhino
Revit
AutoCAD
Sketchuo
Blender

Learn how to integrate site data from Equator into your existing workflow

Click on an icon to select your software and learn how Equator fits in.  Equator is helping civil engineers, architects, land developers and designers get CAD and modelling deliverables done 10x faster, with high-resolution site maps.

Get Started

Your next site map is 30 seconds away.

No data vendor. No GIS team. No waiting. Try Equator free and pull your first contour map before your next meeting.

Frequently Asked Questions

A parcel map depicts the legal boundaries of different properties, based on information from deeds and surveys. Each parcel includes metadata like acreage, ownership records, land classification, and parcel IDs.

Equator provides access to over 156 million parcel boundaries and records across the United States. Coverage varies by county. Turn on the Parcels coverage layer in the Data tab to check availability for your project area.

Equator sources parcel data from authoritative county and state GIS databases. Accuracy reflects the source agency’s records, which are the same data used for tax assessment and legal transactions. You can view individual parcel metadata before downloading to verify records.

Yes. In Equator, click on any parcel on the map and a metadata panel will appear with the parcel ID, legal address, owner information, longitude/latitude, and zoning classification.