Township Canada Product Update - May 2026

May was the most active shipping month in Township Canada's history. The Agriculture and Energy Bundles launched — putting farmland productivity scores, soil data, crop history, AER wells, pipelines, and Crown tenure on every quarter section in one place. At the same time, one-click Parcel Reports went live, the Territory & Prospecting tool shipped, and a wave of new data layers landed in the ETL pipeline to fuel what comes next.

Here's what changed.

What We Shipped

Data & Reports

One-click Parcel Reports are live. Go to /parcel/[lld] for any legal land description and you get a full data report on that quarter section: soil classification, O&G activity context, crop and land-use history, and location details — all in one view with a PDF export. Type in NW-7-13-21-W4, and instead of a pin on a map, you get everything known about that parcel from official government datasets.

Soil Landscapes of Canada (SLC v3.2) is now in every report. Outside Alberta, where AGRASID 4.1 soil data covers the province at LSD resolution, parcel reports now fall back to the AAFC Soil Landscapes of Canada dataset for soil order classification. If you're looking at a quarter section in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, or BC, the soil context travels with you — colour-coded by order, with a popover for interpretation. This rounds out the agronomic picture for every parcel across the Prairies.

Agriculture Bundle & Energy Bundle

Two new $50/mo bundles shipped. The Agriculture and Energy Bundles give you the data that drives land decisions — on the same search and map you already use. Full details are in the launch post, but here's the short version:

• Agriculture Bundle — LSRS productivity score (0–100, per quarter section), AGRASID soil subgroup and drainage class, AAFC Annual Crop Inventory (five-year rotation, dominant crop, diversity index), current drought index, and the one factor capping the productivity score. Alberta at LSD resolution; crop and drought layers cover the Prairies and BC.
• Energy Bundle — AER wells (operator, licence status, abandoned/orphan flags), AER pipelines (licence, substance, diameter), Petrinex 12-month production summary (oil, gas, water volumes), and Crown tenure zones. All plotted on the DLS grid with satellite imagery.

Both bundles include the Parcel Report overview tab with a plain-English headline summarizing agronomic and energy context for the parcel, and a PDF export you can hand to a client or attach to a regulatory file.

Both are available as add-ons from your account dashboard at the standard $50/mo rate.

Territory & Prospecting

Territory & Prospecting Tool is live. The new Territory tool lets you analyze parcels across a defined area — prospecting for farmland or O&G opportunities at scale rather than one quarter section at a time. Draw a polygon, get every quarter section inside with crop history and soil productivity, and export to CSV. Available with the Agriculture Bundle. If you're evaluating land packages across a township or range, this is the right tool.

New Data

Six new data layers loaded into the ETL pipeline in May. They power the bundle features above and will appear on the map in upcoming releases:

• AER Pipelines — Every AER-licensed pipeline in Alberta: licence number, substance, diameter, and operator. Rendered as PMTiles on the DLS grid.
• AER Facilities (ST102) — The full AER facility list, including facility type, operator, and location. Plotted on the DLS grid.
• Treaty Boundaries — Federal First Nations treaty overlay, covering all numbered treaties across Western Canada.
• LSRS Productivity Score — Per-quarter-section land productivity ratings (Alberta v1), built on AGRASID 4.1 and AAFC's Land Suitability Rating System. The foundation of the Ag Bundle productivity score.
• AAFC Annual Crop Inventory — National raster crop data (AAFC v5) plus a per-quarter-section rollup of dominant crop, five-year rotation, and diversity index. Covers the Prairies and BC.
• Petrinex Well Production — Facility-level volumetrics and per-well 12-month production rollup (oil, gas, water). The foundation of the Energy Bundle production summary.

Platform Updates

The ETL pipeline that feeds these data layers was overhauled in May. Twenty-seven scheduled ingest and transform workflows are now active — previously only four were running. That means the well, soil, crop, and tenure data in the app stays current on its published schedule rather than going stale between manual refreshes.

What's Coming

Land Portfolio Manager. The spec is done. The Portfolio Manager lets you track owned or watched parcels with running data updates — productivity score changes, well activity, tenure status — rather than running one-off lookups. Build starts next.

Alberta Crown dispositions overlay. Crown surface and mineral disposition boundaries are the next data layer. The spec is written; ETL build and map integration follow.

iOS app. Development is ongoing. Android is live on Google Play today.

We ship new features based on what users ask for. If something's missing from your workflow, email us at hello@townshipcanada.com — we read every note.