Contour Clips was built for small and mid-sized survey, engineering, and environmental consulting firms that don't have a dedicated GIS team.
At a large firm, a GIS department pulls the base data for a new project. At a smaller one, it's our experience that it lands on whoever can spare an afternoon: usually a project engineer, a survey tech, or a staff scientist, and sometimes the principal. The work isn't hard, exactly. It's slow, it's easy to get subtly wrong, and it takes that person away from the survey, the design, or the report.
That's the part we do. We pull the same public data, clip it to your boundary, check it, and deliver it ready for CAD. Your team gets the afternoon back.
Keeping that data current is a job of its own. New LiDAR gets flown, NAIP imagery is updated every two to four years, and parcel and flood maps get revised. We keep up with the sources so your team doesn't have to: each order is built from them when you place it, new LiDAR and imagery years appear on the order page as agencies publish them, and the summary sheet dates every layer.
Contour Clips started inside a Washington environmental consulting practice, pulling this same data for engineering and survey clients.
