Township Canada Product Update — April 2026

Here's what shipped in April 2026. This month was focused on Alberta energy data — specifically the two datasets that O&G professionals most often need to cross-reference against a DLS quarter section: licensed wells and CCS pore space tenure. We also extended the BC parcel API with NTS-based lookup.

Data & Maps

AER Wells Layer

Township Canada now displays 672,880+ Alberta Energy Regulator licensed wells as an interactive map layer on the DLS grid.

You can search by UWI (e.g., 100/06-32-048-07W5/00) or by LSD and the well appears as a pin against satellite imagery and the DLS survey grid. If you're doing surface lease review, field planning ahead of a site visit, or preparing an AER Directive 056 filing, this replaces the back-and-forth between OneStop and the converter.

An API endpoint is available for programmatic well lookup by UWI or LSD — useful for data teams enriching permit tables or building field planning tools.

Available on Business tier. Toggle the AER Wells layer from the map layers panel at app.townshipcanada.com. See /pricing for plan details.

Alberta CCS / Pore Space Tenure Layer

AER-licensed subsurface pore space tenure zone boundaries are now on the DLS grid map.

You can identify which quarter sections fall within or adjacent to a licensed CCS tenure area without cross-referencing the AER registry separately. An API endpoint returns GeoJSON boundaries for tenure zones by LSD or quarter section — useful for generating the shapefiles required in AER CCS submission packages.

If you're preparing a tenure proposal ahead of the AER CCS pore space tenure deadline on June 30, 2026, this layer gives you DLS-indexed tenure boundaries in the same view as your parcel data.

Available on Business tier. Toggle the CCS Tenure layer from the map layers panel. API users can query the pore space tenure endpoint with an existing API key.

Search & API

NTS Parcel Lookup

The ParcelMap BC layer now supports lookup by NTS grid reference in addition to GPS coordinates, PID, and PIN.

The new GET /api/parcels/nts endpoint returns all registered BC parcels whose centroids fall within a given NTS cell — with PID, plan number, area, centroid, and full boundary polygon (GeoJSON). It accepts standard NTS formats: 092G14, 092G/14, and 092G 14 are treated as equivalent.

This is useful in northeast BC, where resource permits and environmental reports often reference both an NTS grid cell and registered parcel boundaries. All three BC parcel endpoints (/nts, /lookup, /search) are now available on Pro plan and above.

What's Coming

• Offline mode — Field crews working in areas with intermittent connectivity have asked for offline grid map access. This is on the roadmap for mobile.
• Pipeline ROW layer — Pipeline right-of-way boundaries are on the data layer roadmap, following wells and CCS tenure.

Industry Pulse

Esri ArcGIS Pro 3.7, expected this quarter, adds NATRF2022 coordinate systems but still has no native DLS/NTS locator. The Township Canada ArcGIS Pro toolbox remains the only way to resolve legal land descriptions inside ArcGIS Pro without switching applications.

The AER CCS pore space tenure proposal window closes June 30, 2026. If you're working on a tenure application, the CCS layer and its API endpoint are available now.

Questions or feedback? Write to hello@townshipcanada.com.