[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-\u002Fblog\u002Fsearch-source-toggles-locations-fps-independent":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":321,"cover":322,"date":323,"description":324,"extension":325,"meta":326,"navigation":328,"path":329,"seo":330,"stem":331,"tags":332,"__hash__":337},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fsearch-source-toggles-locations-fps-independent.md","Search Source Toggles: Turn Locations and FPS On or Off Independently in Township Canada","Township Canada",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":311},"minimark",[10,23,31,36,39,45,49,56,72,75,130,133,142,149,153,162,168,177,188,195,218,236,260,264,272,291,304],[11,12,13,14,18,19,22],"p",{},"A landman working a Nunavut exploration file types ",[15,16,17],"code",{},"F 48 60-20 N 100-30 W"," into the search bar and gets back a clean Federal Permit System unit result. Then they type ",[15,20,21],{},"60-20 N 100-30 W"," to check a grid cell — and the autocomplete dropdown serves up four DLS quarter sections from Alberta that happen to share the same digits. None of them are relevant. The cursor has to scroll past Alberta before reaching the Federal Permit System grid result the user was after.",[11,24,25,26,30],{},"That noise is gone now. Township Canada's unified search panel treats Locations and the Federal Permit System as fully independent source toggles. Frontier and offshore professionals can run the search in ",[27,28,29],"strong",{},"FPS-only mode"," — Locations off, Federal Permit System on — and get back nothing but Federal Permit System grids, sections, and units.",[32,33,35],"h2",{"id":34},"why-the-previous-toggle-wasnt-enough","Why the previous toggle wasn't enough",[11,37,38],{},"The earlier release made Federal Permit System a toggleable opt-in source, but Locations (DLS, NTS, Ontario Township, River Lot) was always on. That was the right default for a user in Calgary checking an LSD against a UWI. It was the wrong default for a regulatory coordinator in Yellowknife who never works south of 60 and does not want DLS results competing with frontier permit grids.",[11,40,41,42,44],{},"The result was that frontier oil and gas professionals — exactly the audience the Federal Permit System matters most to — had to mentally filter every result. A grid like ",[15,43,21],{}," overlaps numerically with DLS coordinates in the southern prairies. An NTS reference can look like a Federal Permit System grid identifier at first glance. Suggestions came back mixed, and the badge tags introduced in the earlier release helped, but they did not stop the noise from arriving in the first place.",[32,46,48],{"id":47},"how-the-independent-toggles-work","How the independent toggles work",[11,50,51,52,55],{},"Open the search panel in the Township Canada app and look at the ",[27,53,54],{},"Sources"," section. There are now two switches that matter for legal-location work:",[57,58,59,66],"ul",{},[60,61,62,65],"li",{},[27,63,64],{},"Locations"," — DLS, LSD, NTS, Ontario Township, River Lot, GPS, address",[60,67,68,71],{},[27,69,70],{},"Federal Permit System"," — offshore and frontier permit grid",[11,73,74],{},"Both toggles operate independently. You can run any combination:",[76,77,78,92],"table",{},[79,80,81],"thead",{},[82,83,84,87,89],"tr",{},[85,86,64],"th",{},[85,88,70],{},[85,90,91],{},"What you get",[93,94,95,107,119],"tbody",{},[82,96,97,101,104],{},[98,99,100],"td",{},"On",[98,102,103],{},"Off",[98,105,106],{},"Default workflow — every legal-location result in Canada south of 60, no Federal Permit System results",[82,108,109,111,113],{},[98,110,100],{},[98,112,100],{},[98,114,115,116],{},"Cross-system mode — every survey grid the platform supports, badged by ",[15,117,118],{},"system_type",[82,120,121,123,125],{},[98,122,103],{},[98,124,100],{},[98,126,127,129],{},[27,128,29],{}," — Federal Permit System grids, sections, and units only",[11,131,132],{},"A Yellowknife user can flip Locations off, leave the Federal Permit System on, and have the search panel behave as a dedicated frontier-grid lookup tool for the rest of the session.",[134,135,136],"blockquote",{},[11,137,138,141],{},[27,139,140],{},"📸 Screenshot placeholder:"," Sources panel inside the unified search panel, expanded to show the Locations and Federal Permit System toggles side by side. Locations should be off (unchecked), Federal Permit System on (checked, highlighted with the brand accent). Capture from app.townshipcanada.com on a desktop viewport.",[11,143,144],{},[145,146],"img",{"alt":147,"src":148},"Unified search panel with source toggles","\u002Fimages\u002Fguides\u002Fsearch.webp",[32,150,152],{"id":151},"a-real-nunavut-example","A real Nunavut example",[11,154,155,156,158,159,161],{},"A regulatory coordinator at a frontier exploration company is reviewing a Significant Discovery Licence application on the western edge of the Kivalliq region, near the Manitoba–Nunavut boundary. The permit document references Federal Permit System grids — references like ",[15,157,21],{}," and the unit identifier ",[15,160,17],{},".",[11,163,164,165,167],{},"In the old workflow, typing ",[15,166,21],{}," returned a mix: the actual Federal Permit System grid result, plus a half-dozen DLS-looking numerical matches the search engine couldn't fully rule out. The coordinator had to read every result card before reaching the right one.",[11,169,170,171,173,174,176],{},"In FPS-only mode, the same query returns the Federal Permit System grid cell, the section subdivisions inside it, and nothing else. Coordinates resolve to the northeast corner of the grid. The map jumps north of the 60th parallel without a detour through Alberta. The badge on every result reads ",[15,172,70],{}," and no other ",[15,175,118],{}," appears.",[134,178,179],{},[11,180,181,184,185,187],{},[27,182,183],{},"🗺️ Diagram placeholder:"," Two side-by-side autocomplete dropdowns showing the same query ",[15,186,21],{},". Left dropdown labeled \"Locations on, FPS on\" shows mixed results — DLS quarter sections (e.g. NW-36-50-20-W4) above the actual FPS grid result. Right dropdown labeled \"FPS-only mode\" shows three clean FPS results: grid, section, and unit, each badged \"Federal Permit System\".",[32,189,191,192,194],{"id":190},"the-system_type-field-on-every-result","The ",[15,193,118],{}," field on every result",[11,196,197,198,200,201,204,205,204,208,204,211,214,215,217],{},"Every legal-location result the API returns now carries a ",[15,199,118],{}," field. The values are exactly what surveyors and landmen already say out loud: ",[15,202,203],{},"DLS",", ",[15,206,207],{},"NTS",[15,209,210],{},"River Lot",[15,212,213],{},"Geographic Township",", or ",[15,216,70],{},". The field shows up in three places:",[57,219,220,223,233],{},[60,221,222],{},"The badge on each result card and autocomplete row in the web app",[60,224,225,226,229,230],{},"The JSON payload of ",[15,227,228],{},"\u002Fapi\u002Fsearch"," and ",[15,231,232],{},"\u002Fapi\u002Fsearch\u002Fsuggestions",[60,234,235],{},"The mobile autocomplete endpoint used by the Android app",[11,237,238,239,241,242,245,246,248,249,254,255,259],{},"For cross-system work, ",[15,240,118],{}," is the answer to the question \"which grid did the converter actually match?\" An NW-36-50-20-W4 result in a coordinate lookup near Drayton Valley is unambiguous — but a point near Fort St. John inside NTS map sheet ",[15,243,244],{},"094A\u002F03"," returns both a DLS quarter section and an NTS reference in the same lookup. The ",[15,247,118],{}," tag is how a downstream script routes each result to the right column in its output. The ",[250,251,253],"a",{"href":252},"\u002Flearn\u002Fhow-to\u002Ffps-grid-converter","FPS grid converter explainer"," and the ",[250,256,258],{"href":257},"\u002Flearn\u002Fsystems\u002Ffps","Federal Permit System system page"," both cover the underlying grids in more detail.",[32,261,263],{"id":262},"what-this-means-for-your-workflow","What this means for your workflow",[11,265,266,267,271],{},"For frontier and offshore oil and gas professionals, the practical effect is one less filter to apply mentally. The search panel becomes a Federal Permit System lookup tool when the work is north of 60 or offshore, a Locations lookup tool when the work is in the prairies, and a both-at-once tool when a single project crosses the boundary — for example, a pipeline planning study that runs from northeast British Columbia into the Northwest Territories. The ",[250,268,270],{"href":269},"\u002Fblog\u002Ffederal-permit-system-search-offshore-frontier-grids","previous FPS search announcement"," covers the underlying grid hierarchy if you have not seen it.",[11,273,274,275,277,278,229,281,284,285,287,288,290],{},"For developers integrating the Township Canada API, the ",[15,276,118],{}," field plus the new source flags (",[15,279,280],{},"locations=0",[15,282,283],{},"fps=1"," on the ",[15,286,228],{}," query string) make it easy to build a frontier-region tool that talks only to the federal grid backend. No code changes are needed to get the new field on existing results — ",[15,289,118],{}," is populated for every legal-location row.",[11,292,293,294,298,299,303],{},"The source toggles are available on ",[250,295,297],{"href":296},"\u002Fpricing","every plan",". Open the search panel and try FPS-only mode the next time a permit reference lands on your desk. If you build on the Township Canada API and want to test the new flags, the ",[250,300,302],{"href":301},"\u002Fdevelopers","developer documentation"," covers the updated search endpoint.",[134,305,306],{},[11,307,308,310],{},[27,309,140],{}," Map view in the Township Canada web app centered on a Nunavut Federal Permit System grid cell, with the search panel open in the sidebar in FPS-only mode (Locations off, Federal Permit System on). Show a single FPS result selected and pinned on the map. Capture at 1200x630 from app.townshipcanada.com.",{"title":312,"searchDepth":313,"depth":313,"links":314},"",2,[315,316,317,318,320],{"id":34,"depth":313,"text":35},{"id":47,"depth":313,"text":48},{"id":151,"depth":313,"text":152},{"id":190,"depth":313,"text":319},"The system_type field on every result",{"id":262,"depth":313,"text":263},"product","\u002Fimages\u002Fblog\u002Fsearch-source-toggles-locations-fps-independent\u002Fcover.webp","2026-06-13","Independent Locations and Federal Permit System search source toggles for frontier oil and gas work — run FPS-only mode and skip DLS noise in NWT, Nunavut, and offshore files.","md",{"hero_image":327},"https:\u002F\u002Fb9bukyyl5yuyveqq.public.blob.vercel-storage.com\u002Fimages\u002Fblog\u002F2026-06\u002F987f77b0-8c3f-4db0-9098-c3dd5193528d.jpeg",true,"\u002Fblog\u002Fsearch-source-toggles-locations-fps-independent",{"title":5,"description":324},"blog\u002Fsearch-source-toggles-locations-fps-independent",[333,334,335,336],"Product Update","Search","FPS","Oil and Gas","3_9tEB5SytEn5ZwY7P5qjBX1pOdDzay5NuvuoRmVYxs"]