Township Canada Product Update - June 2026

June was a coverage month. We expanded the Energy Bundle to three new provinces, consolidated the layer panel, added Federal Permit System search to the unified search panel, and unified three provincial soil surveys into a single agriculture layer. Here's what shipped.

What We Shipped

Search & Navigation

Federal Permit System grid search is live. The unified search panel now accepts FPS permit grid references alongside DLS, LSD, and NTS. Type a grid, section, or unit reference and get a result with a map pin. A new FPS toggle in the search source controls lets you search FPS-only when you're working northern files, which removes the DLS noise on NWT and Nunavut lookups. Every search and autocomplete result now carries a survey_system field so you always know which grid system a result came from.

Search source toggles for Locations and FPS are independent. Locations (the full legal-land-description database) and the FPS dataset can each be turned on or off separately in the search panel. If you're working a frontier or offshore file and don't want parcel matches from the DLS, turn Locations off. Every legal-location result now includes a system_type field identifying DLS, NTS, or FPS. The API returns this field too, so it's available for apps built on the Township Canada search endpoint.

Data & Maps

Energy layers are now live in Saskatchewan, BC, and Manitoba. Wells, Pipelines, Facilities, and Fields & Pools for all three provinces are now on the map as part of the Energy Bundle. Previously the Energy Bundle covered Alberta. If you're running a multi-province project, you can now see and cross-reference energy infrastructure across the full Western Canada DLS and NTS grid.

The energy layer panel is consolidated to 12 entries. The four energy layer types (Wells, Pipelines, Facilities, Fields & Pools) previously had a separate toggle per province, totalling 20 checkboxes. They're now unified into 12 entries covering AB, SK, BC, and MB, with Province, Substance, Type, and Status filter chips. One panel for four provinces. Blog post: One energy layer panel across four provinces.

Western Canada Soil Survey is one layer. Alberta AGRASID, Saskatchewan provincial soils, and the BC Soil Survey are now a single agriculture-catalog toggle rendered from one tile source. Switch between provinces using the province checkboxes, and filter by drainage class, slope class, and salinity class. Each filter group includes honest "unreported" buckets where a province doesn't publish that attribute. Blog post: Western Canada Soil Survey in One Layer.

New Data

June's coverage additions:

• Saskatchewan: Oil and gas wells, pipelines, and facilities (Energy Bundle). Provincial soil survey (Agriculture Bundle).
• British Columbia: Energy wells, pipelines, and facilities. BC Soil Survey, now merged into the unified Western Canada layer.
• Manitoba: Energy wells, pipelines, and facilities.

The SK pSEO guide (Saskatchewan Oil Well DLS Map Layer) walks through how SK's DLS grid (W1M-W3M) differs from Alberta's and covers a worked Weyburn-area LSD lookup using the new SK Wells layer.

Platform Updates

Data source documentation is live. Nineteen new pages under /learn/data-sources document every layer in the Energy Bundle (12 layers) and Agriculture Bundle (7 layers): the originating government dataset, the refresh cadence, what fields are included, and how each layer is processed before it appears on the map. If you've ever wanted to cite the source of a well location or soil classification in a client deliverable, the documentation pages are the reference to link to.

What's Coming

iOS app. The Android field app has been live since May. iOS is in development.

BC parcel boundaries. A frequently requested addition for real estate and surveying work in BC. On the roadmap.

Offline field mode. The ability to cache a region and work without a data connection is one of the most common requests from field crews and surveyors. We're working on it.

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