By Township Canada
Launching `/parcel/[lld]` — A One-Click Report for Any Canadian Quarter Section
Township Canada's new parcel report bundles LSRS soil productivity, 5-year crop history, area, and Indigenous consultation flags into a single shareable URL — indexable for SEO and built for sharing.
Drop any DLS legal land description into the URL — townshipcanada.com/parcel/SE-14-29-21-W2 — and get a complete report on that quarter section. Server-rendered for sharing and indexability, joined to every shipped data layer, with a soft paywall on the free tier that surfaces an upgrade CTA without blocking crawlers.
This is the One-Click Parcel Report — the first tier-defining Ag Bundle feature and the SEO acquisition wedge for the whole Ag product line.
What the report returns
For any quarter section in Western Canada:
- Legal description, normalized — DLS notation, GPS coordinates, area in acres, township / range / meridian
- LSRS soil productivity — 0-100 score with class label, sourced from AGRASID 4.1 (Alberta v1; Saskatchewan in flight)
- 5-year AAFC crop history — dominant crop across the window, year-by-year rotation array, Shannon diversity index (Alberta and Saskatchewan)
- Indigenous consultation hazard — flag if the parcel sits inside Treaty 4, 6, 7, 8, or 10 boundaries
- PDF export — Ag Farmer and Ag Investor tiers (button shipped, generator next)
- Save to portfolio — Ag Farmer and Investor tiers (with the Land Portfolio Manager when that ships)
The free-tier model
Five reports per calendar month per signed-in user or per hashed-and-salted IP for anonymous visitors. Over quota: the full report still renders (so search engines see complete content), with a soft paywall card at the top routing to upgrade. Rapid refreshes within one minute don't double-count.
The 5/month cap is intentional — enough for the occasional verification or a parcel link someone sent you, not enough for the kind of portfolio-scale workflow that justifies Ag Farmer ($50/mo) or Ag Investor ($100/mo).
Why server-rendered matters
The report URL is built to be the marketing surface, not just an in-app tool. Every page has:
- Full Open Graph meta tags with auto-generated descriptions from the report data
- JSON-LD
Placeschema with coordinates and additional properties - Canonical URL set to the parcel URL itself
- A canonical slug format that's case-insensitive and whitespace-tolerant
A planned phased sitemap rollout will submit ~100K parcel URLs to Google over three phases — 10K, 60K, 120K. Once indexed, search queries like "NE 14-32-21 W3 acres" should resolve to the parcel report at the top of the search results.
Use cases the report enables
Farmer checking a new lease. Two minutes of map work before signing — soil productivity, recent rotation, treaty exposure.
Investor pre-screening a deal sheet. Pull reports on the top quarters in a 60-parcel portfolio. PDF export for the diligence binder.
Crop insurance adjuster onboarding. Send the parcel link to a junior adjuster as part of the claim brief.
Sharing a parcel link to a buyer, tenant, or counterparty. The Open Graph preview shows the area, soil rating, and dominant crop before they click. See Share a Parcel Link for the full pattern.
Carbon project developers evaluating Conservation Cropping protocol baselines — the AAFC rotation history is exactly the data the TIER protocol requires.
What's NOT in the report yet
- PDF generator — button visible, generation coming
- Save-to-portfolio — UI stub; the Land Portfolio Manager ships next
- Ownership info — pending ISC Map Search redistribution rights confirmation
- Land Values panel (Investor only) — pending free-data path research
How to use it now
Try it: SE-14-29-21-W2, NW-22-44-9-W5, NE-31-40-26-W3. Any DLS or NTS legal land description resolves to its report.
If you hit the 5-report monthly cap, Ag Farmer at $50/mo lifts the limit and unlocks the map overlays.