G2 Vendor Directory

OpenRoads Designer vs. Carlson Survey

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricOpenRoads Designer

by Bentley Systems

Carlson Survey

by Carlson Software

Overall rating4.13.9
Review count13911
Ease of use7.38.9
Ease of setup6.910.0
Quality of support7.99.0
Meets requirements8.68.6
NPS37.536.363636
Small Business22.1%50.0%
Mid-Market34.6%30.0%
Enterprise43.4%20.0%
Total page views47162
Total LLM citations3,508124

OpenRoads Designer

OpenRoads Designer CONNECT Edition, the successor to Bentley’s industry leading civil engineering brands InRoads, GEOPAK, MX, and PowerCivil, is a truly innovative design application, built to address the demands of today’s evolving infrastructure industry. By blending traditional engineering workflows for plan, profile, and cross-sections with 3D parametric modeling, OpenRoads Designer enables the model-centric creation of all your design deliverables.

Pros

    Carlson Survey

    Carlson Survey is a Windows software application for the Surveyor’s office to manage the complete job cycle from field data collection to drafting a final plan with several CAD options. With minimum effort and time, Carlson Survey allows users to design and produce a 2D drawing, an enhanced 3D surface model and construction layout data sets, for increasing their efficiency and profitability.

    Pros