Tree care work is spatial. Where on the property is the dead oak? Which strip of lawn gets the spring fertilization? How do you tell the crew exactly which three hemlocks need spraying without making them guess from a paragraph in the work order? ArborDash solves this with a built-in satellite map editor that turns every customer property into an interactive bird's-eye view your office and your field teams can both work from.
The Property Mapping system has a three-layer architecture that no other tree care platform offers. The master property map is the long-lived, authoritative record of everything on a property — every tree pinned with species and condition, every lawn area drawn out, every driveway, garden bed, and structure. Estimate maps are scoped overlays on top of the master: when a customer calls for spring cleanup, you sketch the work zones for that estimate without disturbing the master record. The bridge between them keeps everything in sync — trees you map on an estimate flow into the master, and updates to the master propagate to every active estimate and job.
It's not just trees. The Property Catalog supports any feature you need to track and bill against: trees, bushes, shrubs, lawns, garden beds, driveways, walkways, fences, retaining walls. Each one carries its own metadata — species for plants, square footage for lawns, linear feet for fences — so when you build an estimate or invoice, the line items can pull straight from the map. Draw a 4,200 sq ft lawn polygon and the fertilization estimate populates automatically.
Crews see the map on their phones. When a job is dispatched, the assigned tree pins, lawn zones, and any safety hazards (overhead lines, septic locations, irrigation heads marked by the homeowner) show up in the field app under your white-label branding. No more 'the second oak from the back fence' — the crew taps the pin, sees the species and DBH, marks the work complete, and the service history is auto-logged against that specific tree on the master map.
What you can map
- Individual trees with species, DBH, height, condition, and risk rating
- Lawn zones as drawn polygons with auto-calculated square footage
- Bushes, shrubs, and hedges with linear or area measurements
- Driveways, walkways, and patios for snow plowing or treatment work
- Garden beds, mulch zones, and seasonal planting areas
- Hazards and notes — overhead lines, septic, irrigation, pet areas
- Service history pins auto-logged against each feature when work is completed
- Estimate-scoped overlays so each quote has its own work zones without touching the master
How It Works
- Open a property in the CRM and switch to the map view — pulls satellite imagery centered on the address.
- Drop pins for trees, draw polygons for lawns and beds, drop hazards. Each feature gets metadata (species, area, notes).
- Build estimates from the map: select features and ArborDash auto-fills line items with species and measurements.
- Dispatch the job to a crew — their phone shows the same map with the assigned features highlighted under your branding.
- When work is marked complete, service history auto-logs against the specific tree, zone, or feature on the master map.
A real spatial system, not a screenshot field
Most tree care platforms let you attach a photo of a satellite screenshot to a customer record. That isn't a map — it's an image. ArborDash's Property Mapping is a real interactive system: features have geometry, measurements, and identity. They flow into estimates, invoices, scheduling, and service history automatically. As far as we know, no other tree care software has this depth of property-level mapping built in.