Oil and Gas
Convert well licence locations, plan pipeline routes, and file regulatory submissions — all from legal land descriptions.
Free account for individual lookups. Contact sales for Business tier pricing and API access.
The Problems
Well licence locations are LSDs, not GPS
Every AER, SER, and BCOGC filing records well locations as DLS notation. A well licence reads 06-32-048-07W5, not 54.2341, -114.8823. Field crews navigate by GPS. Before anyone drives to a wellsite, someone converts the LSD to coordinates — and if that conversion is wrong, the crew drives to an empty quarter section eight kilometres away.
A transposed range number moves a destination by a full township width. A wrong meridian can put you in a different province. These aren't edge cases; they happen when conversions are done manually under time pressure.
Batch processing thousands of wells is a manual job
Regulatory filings, asset inventories, and production databases list well locations as legal descriptions — sometimes hundreds, sometimes thousands of rows. There is no bulk conversion built into the AER submission portal, ArcGIS's basemap, or most production database exports. The standard workaround is a land technician converting rows one at a time, or writing one-off scripts that break when the input format changes.
Field dispatch lacks routing
A wellsite inspector with 12 stops across Township 48, Range 5-7, W5M doesn't need just coordinates — they need an efficient driving order across township roads and range roads. Without a route, they rely on memory or a paper section map. Either way, they're making unnecessary backtracking decisions in the field.
Internal systems need programmatic access
SCADA platforms, production databases, and custom GIS applications all store well locations as legal descriptions because that's what regulators require. Every time those locations need to appear on a map, feed a field app, or populate a coordinates schedule, someone manually converts them. Automating that step requires an API — one that understands DLS notation natively.
What Township Canada Does
Single-location conversion
Enter any LSD or DLS location into the search bar — 06-32-048-07W5, NE-14-050-07W5, or 100/06-32-048-07W5/0 — and get back GPS coordinates, a map view showing the survey grid boundary, and the parcel centroid you can copy directly into field equipment or a navigation app.
The map overlays township, section, quarter section, and LSD grid lines so you can visually verify the location against adjacent parcels before sending coordinates to the field.
Search guide · DLS to GPS converter
Batch conversion for well inventories
Upload a CSV with any number of well locations. Map columns to LSD, section, township, range, and meridian — whether your source data stores the full description in one column or splits it across five. The converter runs in seconds regardless of row count and flags any descriptions that didn't resolve so data errors surface before they reach a regulator or a field crew.
Download results as CSV, KML, Shapefile, DXF, or GeoJSON — covering the ArcGIS analyst, the AutoCAD engineer, and the land technician working in Excel.
A pipeline company uploading 2,000 well locations from an AER filing gets GPS coordinates for every row in under 30 seconds. The same job done manually takes days.
Batch conversion guide · Export formats
Route planner for field crews
Add wellsite LSDs as stops in any order. The route planner converts each one to GPS coordinates, calculates the most efficient driving sequence, and generates turn-by-turn directions on rural range roads and township roads. Hand off to Google Maps on mobile for real-time navigation.
An inspector planning 12 stops across three townships in Range 5-7, W5M can cut 45 minutes of driving compared to an unoptimized order — and spend that time on the sites instead of the roads.
Route planner guide · Directions guide
API for internal systems
RESTful API with Search, Autocomplete, Batch, and Maps endpoints. Connect directly to production databases, SCADA systems, or custom GIS applications and automate conversions instead of doing them by hand.
The Search endpoint accepts a legal land description string and returns GPS coordinates and parcel geometry. The Batch endpoint accepts arrays of descriptions and processes them in parallel. The Maps endpoint serves vector tiles for the DLS survey grid — township, section, quarter section, and LSD layers — so you can overlay the grid on any map built with Mapbox, MapLibre, Leaflet, or OpenLayers.
API documentation · API integration guide
Recommended Plan
Business plan with API access covers the full oil and gas workflow:
- Unlimited searches and batch conversions
- CSV upload with no row limit
- All export formats including Shapefile and DXF
- Team management with role-based access
- API access with unlimited keys
- Survey grid map layers — township, section, quarter section, LSD — for visual verification
Single users doing occasional well lookups can start on the free plan. Teams processing regulatory filings, running field operations, or integrating with internal systems need Business.
Start Converting Well Locations
Free account for individual LSD lookups. Business plan for batch processing, all export formats, team management, and API access.
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