A Kansas City software company building practical field tools for the people who manage America's roads — from public works departments to a nationwide network of truckers — and the makers of Road Data.
Waypoint Web & Software LLC is an independent software company based in Kansas City, USA. We design and build web and mobile applications for the infrastructure and field-operations sector — software meant to be used in the cab of a truck and at the planning desk alike. Our flagship product, Road Data, brings modern road condition surveying within reach of any agency or contractor, regardless of budget or technical resources.
The company was founded on a simple observation: the organizations responsible for the most road miles often have the least access to current condition data. Large transportation departments can afford specialized survey vans, laser-scanning rigs, and recurring contractor assessments. But the cities, counties, townships, and private contractors who maintain the bulk of the local road network frequently rely on windshield impressions, spreadsheets, and surveys that are years out of date. We built Waypoint to close that gap with software, not expensive hardware.
Road Data is a smartphone-based road condition survey platform. It turns an ordinary phone into a capable data-collection device: mount it on a windshield, drive your routes, and the app records geo-located imagery of the pavement at a regular interval along with precise GPS coordinates and timestamps. There is no proprietary hardware to purchase, no sensor to calibrate, and no vehicle modification required. An agency can sign up and run its first survey the same day. You can explore the product directly at roaddata.tech and follow a complete walkthrough in the Road Data field guide.
Once a drive is complete, the captured data flows into a map-based dashboard where every road segment is plotted at its true geographic position. Engineers and supervisors can scrub through the imagery remotely, review condition ratings segment by segment, and assemble the documented record that maintenance planning, budget requests, and liability defense all depend on. Because each image is geo- and time-referenced, Road Data produces a defensible archive: you can show the exact condition of any road on any survey date, the actions taken, and the reasoning behind them.
Roads deteriorate gradually, and the cost of repair climbs steeply the longer a problem goes unaddressed. A crack sealed early is a fraction of the cost of a reconstruction later. Yet without current data, agencies are forced to react to failures rather than manage decline. Road Data changes the economics of road condition assessment by making frequent, in-house surveying affordable. When a survey costs little more than the time it takes to drive a normal route, an agency can collect data every season instead of every several years. Each repeated drive adds to a growing history for every segment, revealing how a road is changing and enabling earlier, cheaper intervention.
That continuous record also strengthens the case for funding. Grant applications, capital improvement plans, and council presentations are far more persuasive when backed by current, geo-referenced imagery and objective condition scores than by anecdote. And when a claim is made about a road defect, agencies can reference the time-stamped archive to demonstrate the road's condition and the maintenance decisions made around it. Better data is not just an operational convenience — it is a financial and legal asset.
What makes Road Data different is who collects it. Beyond individual agencies and contractors, Road Data is powered by a growing network of long-haul truckers who run the app as they drive. Over a shift that can stretch to 11 hours a day, a single driver passively surveys hundreds of miles of highway. Capture is completely hands-free and safe — there is nothing to tap and nothing to distract from the road — and every mile of road damage data syncs automatically to a secure cloud database in real time. Multiplied across drivers crossing the country daily, the result is a continuously refreshed picture of road conditions coast to coast that no fixed survey fleet could produce.
That network is also a marketplace. The data a driver generates belongs to that driver, and Road Data gives them a way to earn from the miles they already drive. Every dataset a trucker collects appears in their Road Data account dashboard, where they can list it for sale and set a price. On the other side, buyers — transportation agencies, contractors, engineering consultants, and researchers — browse the datasets truckers list, purchase them outright, or make offers on the listings they want. The Road Data app facilitates every transaction end to end: listings, offers, purchases, and driver payouts are all handled inside the platform, with secure payments powered by Stripe. It is a model that rewards the people doing the driving while giving data buyers an affordable, constantly updated source of real-world road condition information.
We build software the way our customers work: practically, and with a bias toward the field. Features earn their place by making a real survey faster, a real report clearer, or a real budget decision better supported. We keep deployment simple because the agencies we serve rarely have dedicated IT staff, and we keep the tools approachable because the people using them are road professionals, not software specialists. As a Kansas City company, we understand the realities of maintaining American roads through hard winters, heavy freight, and tight budgets — and we build for those conditions.
Whether you manage a handful of streets or a county-wide network, our aim is the same: to put accurate, current road condition data in your hands so you can spend maintenance dollars where they matter most. To learn more about the product, visit roaddata.tech. To talk with our team about a pilot, pricing, or deployment, email us any time at support@waypointsoftwareusa.com.
Powerful road data should not require a survey van or a specialist. If you can drive a route, you can collect it.
Every decision is stronger with current, geo-referenced data behind it. We help agencies replace impressions with records.
From Kansas City, we build for real American conditions — freeze-thaw cycles, heavy freight, and tight maintenance budgets.
Explore the app that lets any vehicle survey the road network — built by Waypoint Web & Software USA.