Abraham Poorazizi

Township Canada - Explore Canadian legal land descriptions on a map

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🇨🇦 Township Canada is a simple tool that allows for searching, converting, and mapping Canadian legal land descriptions. What is a legal land description? Any parcel of land in Canada can be located by its legal land description. Legal land descriptions are based on survey grid networks that divide the country into equal-sized parcels of land.

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Abraham Poorazizi
Hey Product Hunters! I made a web app called Township Canada (https://townshipcanada.com), it's a simple tool that allows for searching, converting, and mapping Canadian legal land descriptions. What is a legal land description? 😀 Any parcel of land in Canada can be located by its legal land description. Legal land descriptions are based on survey grid networks that divide the country into equal-sized parcels of land. Now, many industries such as oil & gas and agriculture use legal land descriptions to identify their assets like wells, facilities, and land parcels. The problem I had when I first started in the energy industry was how to easily convert the legal land descriptions into geographical coordinates and map them - I couldn't find an easy-to-use tool at the time. So I built a simple web app back in Summer of 2017, as a side-project, and started using it (see the announcement here: https://twitter.com/mepoorazizi/...). I even shared a link with a few friends of mine and I got so much love from them 😊 Then I realized that this tool might be useful to other people who are dealing with legal land descriptions in their daily routine, so I decided to further develop its functionality and release it as a product. So here I'm sharing the product with you guys - I know that only Canadians 🇨🇦 may find this useful 😀 Anyhow, let me know what you think. I'd appreciate your feedback.