Built from the field, not the boardroom.

As the toolbox has grown past 30 apps, "your files never leave your browser" stopped being true for all of them, so instead of one blanket promise, each tool below is tagged for exactly how it handles your data: processed locally on your device, assisted by a server we control, or live and networked by design. No guessing, no fine print — just an honest label before you click.

🔒 Local — stays on your device ☁️ Server-Assisted 🌐 Live / Networked
🪟 Windows 🍎 iOS / macOS 🤖 Android

Photo & Image Processing

USA 250
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Virtual Camera

Activates your camera and slaps a GPS text overlay over your photos. Enhanced to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of USA!

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Magnifier

Turn your phone's rear camera into a magnifying glass — pinch to zoom, torch, freeze frame. Nothing uploaded.

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Pictures to Excel Report

Quickly take all of the JPG or HEIC pictures uploaded and place them onto a map to be exported into an Excel spreadsheet.

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Bulk Photo Compressor (JS or Python)

Shrink file sizes while preserving original GPS and EXIF metadata.

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HEIC, PNG, JPG, SVG, PDF. Come one, come all.

Batch convert various photo formats into other photo formats.

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GPS meta data editor.

For those times when manual tweaks to the EXIF data are needed.

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EXIF Batch Extractor

Drop a photo folder, read GPS EXIF from each file, and export photos_gps.json — all local, no upload.

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GPS watermark reader.

Automatically read the GPS on the face of image and inject the EXIF data in a new downloaded file.

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Watermark Geotagged photos

Enables comments and imprints meta data on the face of photo. Version 2.9 now supports HEIC photos.

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GIF Parsing tool.

Takes a GIF file and parse it into component frames.

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Ultra light weight photo editor.

Almost as useful as the Microsoft Paint program.

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Video Compression tool.

Server-Assisted: upload MP4/MOV, compress with native FFmpeg on chisheu tools, download. Legacy browser WASM still available.

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Velez Especial!

Custom built for one of our most prized Collagues.

Geospatial & Field Data

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🌊 King Tides 3D

Visualizing King Tides graphically — an interactive 3D Sun-Earth-Moon model showing why the highest tides happen when the Moon is closest and everything lines up.

Also: Earth–Moon view
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Amazon Cargo CSB7598

Flight-track map of the 2026-09-06 Amazon Cargo approach / RWY 30 excursion at MIA — GeoJSON preloaded.

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Mappy v7.5

Lite: Fast tile loading for quick site JPEG batch reviews.

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Pushbutton

Field observation for crews — photos, GPS, projects. Early beta; recruiting coworkers to poke for kinks.

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Excel table with GPS to Map.

This application will read an excel table with GPS (X-Y values) and plot them to a map.

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Excel GPS Table to Google Earth (KMZ)

Plot an Excel table with lat/long, filter it, and export to Google Earth KMZ/KML or GeoJSON.

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Photos to KMZ

Export geotagged photos to Google Earth format instantly.

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KMZ Asset Extractor

Unpack KMZ archives to recover KML text and binary image assets into local folders.

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Shapefile, GeoJSON and GeoPackage Reader/editor

Unpacks a Shapefile, GeoPackage or GeoJSON files and puts it on a Map without expensive software.

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Mile Markered State Roads.

Quickly list all roadway section numbers and mile posts of roads in FDOT's District 4.

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A Clone of Drop a Pin function.

A Drop a pin. Talk some trash. Share. A blackboard markup function has also been added for your story session.

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GIS Lite.

Load and perform rudimentary GIS editing functions to GeoJSON and KML files.

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FDOT Sign inspection report.

Automagically fill out a rather tedious, old-fashioned form.

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Construction Project Chat board.

A prototype roadway construction communication platform that's devolved into chaos.

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State Plane Coordinate system visualizer

A visualizing tool for the State Plane Coordinate system interposed with the Global Positioning System.

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Downloadable roadway information for Florida and Texas.

The infrastructure vascular system of the free State of Florida and the Lone Star Republic. The ground transportation network of United States truly is a wonder of the world that we take for granted everyday. God bless America!

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Station Number and GPS correlator

<------ Download a Geojson line file from "Downloadable roadway information for Florida and Texas" placard and visualize Project Network Control survey and stationing to GPS.

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FDOT RCI inspection tool

Automagically fill out yet another rather tedious, old-fashioned form.

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FDOT Guardrail verification tool

We developed an automated AI verification tool to validate guardrail data captured via computer vision from roadway videos. This innovation eliminates the need for manual review, streamlining our data quality assurance workflow.

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Generalized GeoJSON GIS comparison tool.

This will load various GeoJSON files into discrete layers and allow for a cursory analysis of these GIS layers.

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Plan view image georeferencing tool.

Takes a plan view of an image and reference it to a map.

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GeoJSON line files to populate the reference layer.

May be necessary for many of the web map apps on this site.

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GeoJSON to Spreadsheet tool.

A quick markup language translator into a tabular format.

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Spreadsheet to GeoJSON tool.

A quick translation of normalized tabular data into a JSON markup language.

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Points to Heatmap.

Enables a heatmap overlay for a smattering of points.

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Storm Sewer Cleaning estimator.

Draw a box over assets and auto-compute quantities involved.

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Sweeping progress Visualizer.

Visually see where we are with our sweeping cycle.

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Edging progress Visualizer.

Visually see where we are with our sidewalk edging cycle.

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🚦 MUTCD Sign Browser.

All 1,054 FHWA 11th Edition standard highway signs — searchable, filterable, CDN-ready SVG library.

Desktop File Management

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Voided page remover

If your As-Built plan set has a lot of "VOID" pages in it, this utility will strip them out for your convenience.

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PDF size reducer

Take an existing PDF document and put it on a diet.

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PDF page to svg

Take an existing PDF document and converts it to vector graphics format.

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Light Vector Graphics Editor (SVG)

Another light-weight SVG editor.

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Doddle and flatten annotation onto PDF page.

Opens a PDF document and allows for superficial markup over the document. Exports annotated page to PNG.

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PDF Screengrab only.

Allows for selection of a portion of your document to be immediately downloaded as image.

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PDF Yourself.

Allows for selection of a portion of a PDF document to generate an abbreviated version of a PDF document.

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PDF OCR machine.

Take a static PDF and extracts it into usable text. With multi-language codex support.

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PDF → Excel

Pull tables out of a PDF into a spreadsheet in your browser. Preview before download — no upload.

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PDF to PNG converter

Take an existing PDF document and turn it into a picture.

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Stitch PDF plansheets.

Take a bunch of roadway sheets and turn it into one picture. This one is a bit wonky still, don't lean too hard on it.

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Excerpt PDF sheets.

Quick-and-dirty way to manipulate pdf pages without using the print to pdf hack.

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TIFF file Utility

This will read and convert an antiquated TIFF file format to either PDF or JPEG.

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File Zip and Unzip utility

Browser-based compression when OS functions fail.

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Batch Folder Creator

Convert lists to Windows .bat scripts with safety logic.

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Folder Indexer v1.3

Generate recursive, time-stamped plain-text file lists.

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Screen Recorder

This utility will create a recording of a specified area on your screen.

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RDBMS Node Chart Maker

Quick-and-dirty node chart maker for relational database schemas.

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Email Backup Reader

Open standalone .eml, .msg, or .mbox email backups in your browser. Search, preview, and download attachments — nothing leaves your machine.

Random Projects

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Random number generator

Secure, browser-based randomized number generation.

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Meta data X-Ray

Open a photo and examine its hidden EXIF meta data.

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AI Cost Estimator

See how much it costs LLMs to process your documents.

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GPS Guard Diagnostic

Verify satellite lock accuracy before starting field work.

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Reduce photo size nostalgically

For the super detail-oriented few who wants to compress photos one at a time.

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Homemade classic games.

Games before they were ruined by Multi-layered authentication log ins with recurring subscription accounts.

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Math

What tattered remains of the methematics I was once taught.

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Engineering Mechanics

Physics don't care about feelings.

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❄️ AC Superheat & Subcooling 3D

See how the amount of refrigerant in an air conditioner shows up in two key readings, superheat and subcooling, and how running low can freeze the coil and the line back to the compressor.

Also: pipe close-up
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Ray casting science.

Why Wolfenstein 3D was so revolutionary in influencing our world in so many serendipitous ways, and being super fun while doing it.

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Sprite Octant Cutter

A JPG cutting tool for creating 2D Sprites for game development.

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Work-related Trivia.

Collection of random information involved in Civil Engineering.

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Thermoplastic Mapping tool.

You'll need the Excel file generated from the PMMS pdf report translated before the thermoplastic reflectivity lines can be rendered. Work in progress... Ask Chi how to use this tool.

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Storm Sewer Visualization tool.

Takes the cross-sectional slides portion of a set of drainage plans and layout the circuit in 3D for visualization.

📺 DIY Documentaries & Site Reports