"Eartworks" is Cockney for "I hear it works"...
Has anyone checked out that Civil package? The Roads part looks similar to Carlson's, but it's a bit hard to tell how easy it is to use for the weird situations that always crop up in real-world projects. I also didn't really see anything for working with parcels and doing plats, or support for site grading or construction calcs or anything like that. But the demos seem limited - for example, they list a "Survey" package, but have no demo or mention of what the package does (at least as far as I could find).