AutoCAD® Map 3D software provides direct access to data needed for infrastructure planning, design, and management activities. AutoCAD Map 3D helps engineers, planners, surveyors, and GIS professionals working on transportation, land development, water, and power projects to create better designs, enhance productivity, and improve data quality. AutoCAD Map 3D enables users to more easily aggregate cadastral, utility, topographic, environmental, image, LIDAR, and asset data; better visualise and evaluate existing conditions; improve decision making by performing corridor, network, and site analysis; and exchange information with government agencies, utilities, and contractors in both CAD and GIS data formats.