drawtonomy vs Easy Street Draw
Easy Street Draw
Section titled “Easy Street Draw”Easy Street Draw by Trancite is a long-established accident diagramming tool, used widely by law enforcement, first responders, and insurance professionals. The product is designed specifically for traffic investigators and insurance adjusters who need to produce accurate diagrams quickly.
What Easy Street Draw covers (per the official product page):
- A large library of pre-built “intelligent” objects (vehicles, road segments, road signs, lanes, markings) that can be drag-and-dropped onto a scene.
- Integration with 60+ RMS (Records Management System) platforms used by police departments.
- Tools tuned for the workflows of traffic investigators, insurance adjusters, and officers writing crash reports.
- Templates and shape libraries that match the conventions expected in police and insurance reports.
- A long-running commercial product with formal customer support, training, and updates.
For US-style police accident diagramming, Easy Street Draw is one of the standard answers.
Where drawtonomy might fit alongside it
Section titled “Where drawtonomy might fit alongside it”drawtonomy isn’t a crash-diagram product and isn’t aimed at law enforcement or insurance professionals. The two tools cover different audiences and very different workflows.
What drawtonomy does that Easy Street Draw doesn’t focus on:
- Lane semantics for autonomous driving and ADAS work — lane direction, next/previous/left/right relationships built in.
- OpenSCENARIO 1.3 / OpenDRIVE 1.8 export for esmini playback.
- Lanelet2 OSM round-trip.
- AI Scene Generator for natural-language scene prompts.
- Free to use in the browser, with no account or RMS integration required.
What Easy Street Draw does that drawtonomy doesn’t:
- Forensic-grade accident diagrams suitable for police reports and courtrooms.
- Direct RMS integration for filing diagrams alongside official crash reports.
- Workflows designed end-to-end for police, first responders, and insurance investigators.
- Long-running commercial support and training.
A reasonable pattern: Easy Street Draw for crash diagrams that feed into official reports; drawtonomy for educational diagrams of accident types (used in driver-education lessons or training material), or for autonomous-driving scene work. The two coexist because the legal / formal layer that Easy Street Draw owns isn’t where drawtonomy plays.
In the same road-diagram community
Section titled “In the same road-diagram community”Easy Street Draw, SmartDraw, AccidentSketch.com, and drawtonomy all share an interest in making top-down road / vehicle diagrams easy to produce. Easy Street Draw covers the formal accident-report side, AccidentSketch.com covers the lightweight personal side, SmartDraw covers the broad cross-domain side, and drawtonomy covers the autonomous-driving and lane-semantics side. They don’t really compete; they cover adjacent slices of the same broad problem.