What you can do with your imagery

Most people never read the terms attached to a map. It rarely matters — right up until the afternoon you want to print the thing at four feet wide for a lobby, trace it into CAD for a job you are billing, load it on a kiosk that will never see a network, or train a model on it to count what is out there.

That afternoon, the difference between imagery you own and imagery someone else owns stops being a technicality.

What lands in your hands

Your engagement is packaged as files, not as a login. Depending on what your scope includes, that is:

• Full-resolution aerial map — GeoTIFF (COG), GeoTIFF. The whole property as one sharp, flat, correctly-placed image at 1–3 cm per pixel. Drops straight into GIS, opens in QGIS or ArcGIS, and prints at wall size without going soft.
• Point cloud — COPC LAZ, LAZ, LAS, PLY. Millions of measured points — and, on LiDAR scans, the bare ground under tree cover. Terrain, drainage and volumes — the file your civil engineer actually asks for.
• Photoreal 3D model — GLB, OBJ. The textured model of the property you spin and fly around in the viewer. Open it in Blender, a game engine or a design package, or hand it to a contractor as-is.
• CAD & GIS vectors — DXF, SHP, GeoJSON. Contours and mapped features as drawing and GIS layers, not pictures of layers. Open in AutoCAD or Civil 3D and start drawing on top of real ground.
• Measurement tables — CSV (Acreage Table). The figures behind a mapped layer as a spreadsheet, one row per feature, with the units named in the file. Sort or filter it, or hand it to a contractor who wants the numbers rather than the map.
• KMZ map files — KMZ, KML. Your map and layers as KMZ files, which common map apps open. Send them to anyone on the project, to open on a laptop or a phone.
• Tile archive — ZIP. The streaming tiles behind the online viewer, packaged as files. Host the map yourself, or load it on a kiosk that will never see a network.
• Reports — PDF. The written record for the flight — what was captured, when, and how it checks out. Attach it to a permit packet, a bank submission or a board pack.

They are the full-resolution outputs, downloaded from your dashboard, sitting on your own drive.

What you're allowed to do with them

• You own what we deliver. Once the project is paid in full, the maps, models, point clouds and exports are assigned to you — not licensed to you, not rented.
• Use it however your business needs. Copy it, change it, hand it to your engineer, build something new on top of it. There is no permitted-use list to check first.
• Print as many as you want. Put it in the offering memorandum, the permit packet, the board deck and a four-foot print for the lobby. Nobody is counting exports.
• Digitize it for commercial work. Trace it into CAD or GIS and bill the work. What your engineer draws on top of your imagery is yours as well.
• Use it to improve your other data. Align older imagery to it, colour-match against it, use it as the reference the next flight is checked against.
• Train models on it. Count cattle, trees, pallets or parking spaces with whatever model you like. They are your pixels to learn from.
• Take it offline and hand it out. Load it on a kiosk, a laptop or an SD card and open it in a canyon with no signal. Nothing has to phone home, and nothing expires.

Each of those follows from the Data & Intellectual-Property License you sign with us — ownership of the deliverables is assigned to you on full payment, and your use of them is not restricted to a permitted-use list.

The same questions, asked of free map imagery

Here is the honest comparison. Where the law is the answer, it is quoted word for word, and every line links to a public source you can open.

Who owns it?

Usually someone else. Copyright gives the owner the right to make new work from it, so what you may trace or build on is up to the map's terms.

"to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work" — 17 U.S.C. § 106 — Exclusive rights in copyrighted works (U.S. Copyright Office) — Clauses (1) and (2)

With your own imagery: You do, once the project is paid in full: print it, trace it into CAD, train a model on it.

Can I keep a copy offline?

Only if the map's terms allow it. By default, making copies is the owner's right, not yours.

"to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies" — 17 U.S.C. § 106 — Exclusive rights in copyrighted works (U.S. Copyright Office) — Clauses (1) and (2)

With your own imagery: Yes. The files live on your drive and open with no signal.

Isn't there free public imagery I can just use?

Yes. The public record is public domain and free to download, and for a wide-area map it is the right tool.

With your own imagery: It stops being enough when you have to measure, plan or price something: a stockpile volume, a pad elevation, a drainage line.

The three guarantees

NO COMPETITORS ON YOUR MAP

Your map shows your property, your assets and your brand — no advertised businesses, no third-party listings, no labels for the place next door.

Every layer on your map is one we made for you. Past your ground, the frame fills with plain third-party satellite imagery — credited, with no labels or pins. Prints and exports show your capture alone.

FLAT PRICING, NO PER-VIEW BILLING EVER

You pay for the flight and the hosting, at a price agreed up front. You're never billed by the map load, so a busy season costs what a quiet one does.

Sharing your map is the point of having one, so we never bill you for it.

OFFLINE AND BUNDLED USE PERMITTED

Put your files wherever you need them — a kiosk, a laptop in a truck, an SD card in a ranger's pocket. They open with no signal and nothing expires.

Once the project is paid, the files are yours outright — preload them, bundle them into your own app, or hand them to your people.

Sources

• USGS / USDA National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) — ImageServer service description — read 2026-09-29
• 17 U.S.C. § 106 — Exclusive rights in copyrighted works (U.S. Copyright Office) — Clauses (1) and (2) — read 2026-09-29

We keep the date we read each source, because a claim with no date on it is not checkable.

This data is not a legal survey. Embry Solutions LLC does not perform land surveys. For boundary, subdivision, or title surveys, please consult a licensed Texas surveyor.