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What It Is

Li.PAD Mobile Mapping is a municipal public-asset surveying and asset-management tool from Leonardo Web, delivered as a mobile app + WebGIS + Li.PAD Platform. It was originally designed for collecting data on public lighting points, electrical cabinets, and power-grid elements, and has since expanded to cover many types of “spatial point assets,” including storm drains, manholes, road signs, house numbers, greenery, waste bins, and tourist points of interest.

Core Features

At its core, the product combines field GPS data collection with cloud-based WebGIS management. The app supports point, line, and polygon collection; photos, audio, video, and attachments; custom fields, tabs, subforms, parent-child relationships, filters, and thematic maps. In poor-network environments, image uploads can be delayed, and users can also work fully offline and sync later. The WebGIS allows authorized users to view, query, edit, and export data in formats such as xlsx, csv, dxf, shp, and kml, with compatibility for AutoCAD, QGIS, and ArcGIS. On the mapping side, it supports Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, WMS, and KML/GPX, and can connect to external Bluetooth GPS devices for improved accuracy. The platform also provides user, role, and feature permissions, API access, bulk Excel import, and QR code labels.

Pricing and Trial

Pricing is relatively transparent: it is sold as a one-time purchase per device license, plus an annual cloud maintenance and support fee. 1 license costs €855 + €250 per year; 20 licenses cost €7,600 + €2,500 per year. As the number of licenses increases, cloud storage scales from 30GB to 800GB. Licenses appear to be based on concurrent device use, with no limits on geographic area or number of points. The official free trial includes 100 points, full functionality, and data export.

Pros and Cons

Its strengths are that it is closely aligned with municipal field surveys, supports a wide range of asset types, and offers solid offline capabilities, GIS format support, API access, and role-based permissions, making it well suited to project-based data collection. The drawbacks are limited publicly available security and compliance information, and no clear self-hosting option. Documentation is mainly in Italian; although English is supported, service, payment, and localization for non-European users remain unclear.

Best Fit and Access from China

Li.PAD Mobile Mapping is suitable for municipal departments, ESCos, multi-service companies, technical consulting firms, and public-facility operations teams. Access from China should be considered “partially restricted”: there is no clear indication that the official website itself is blocked, but Google Maps, Google Play, the Apple App Store, overseas cloud-based WebGIS, and WMS services may be affected by network conditions. For deployment in mainland China, teams should evaluate basemap replacement, data compliance, and local alternatives such as ArcGIS Field Maps, QField/QGIS, SuperMap, or domestic government GIS platforms.