Best Satellite Measuring Software for Pressure Washing

It depends on whether you want a measuring tool or a platform that includes measuring. QuoteIQ's MapMeasure Pro is the strongest option if you want everything in one system, and it starts at the $74.99/mo Beginner tier. A dedicated tool like SurfaceMeasure costs $29.99/mo and does only measuring and quoting. Deep Lawn, from $95/mo for 40 property searches, then $1.65 each, is the usual answer for Jobber users, particularly on lawn work. Google Earth Pro is free but produces a number you then have to carry into a quote by hand. Prices checked 4 September 2026.

In practice, yes. Vendors use 'aerial', 'satellite' and 'overhead' interchangeably for the same thing: georeferenced top-down imagery with a polygon tool that turns a traced shape into square footage. Some of the imagery is from satellites and some from aircraft, and for measuring a flat driveway the difference doesn't matter — what matters is that each pixel is tied to a real-world coordinate. The tools on this page are all aerial property measurement software by that definition; the differences are in what sits around the measurement, not in the measurement itself.

For flat outdoor surfaces — concrete driveways, pool decks, patios, and paver areas — polygon measurement from aerial imagery is typically within about 1–3% of a tape measurement. That is comfortably accurate enough to price by the square foot, because a 3% error on a 2,000 sq ft driveway at $0.15/sq ft is about $9. The real limitation is vertical surfaces: house siding, walls, and fences cannot be measured from directly overhead.

You can measure the roof's footprint from above, then apply a pitch factor to get actual roof surface area. The standard multiplier is the square root of one plus the rise over twelve squared — a 6-in-12 roof is about 1.118×, an 8-in-12 about 1.202×. That is accurate enough for soft-wash and roof cleaning quotes. It is not accurate enough for a re-roof material takeoff, which needs exact pitch, waste factor, hips, valleys, and penetrations.

Neither does natively. Jobber's own documentation directs users to the third-party Deep Lawn integration or to measuring manually in Google Maps. Housecall Pro has Measurement-Based Pricing, which calculates a price from dimensions you type in rather than measuring the property, and their docs note it is currently limited to Sherwin-Williams partner Pros. This is a scope boundary rather than a flaw — both serve many trades where aerial measurement would be meaningless.

For an occasional job, yes. Google Earth Pro's polygon tool will give you an area figure at no cost. What free tools don't do is the work either side of the number: no automatic subtract for a pool inside a deck, no export into a quote, no saved history tied to a customer, and no record of what you measured when a scope dispute comes up later. If you quote a few jobs a month that's fine. At a few a week the manual steps become the expensive part.

Anything vertical, anything under cover, and anything the imagery is too old to show. House siding, fences, walls, and multi-storey elevations need measuring on site or estimating from photos and storey counts. Covered patios, carports, and areas under heavy tree canopy are frequently obscured. And imagery refresh varies by area, so a driveway extended last year may not appear yet — worth checking the property against what the customer describes.