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Paste anything
A clean description, a messy lease clause, or a whole list. We pull out every legal land description in the text.
Free · No signup · Canada + US
Paste any land description. We map it and explain it.
Deeds, leases, or a single quarter section, Canadian or American. Every survey system, decoded into a map and plain English in seconds.
Legal Land Description
North America
Service · normal·6 systems · CA + US
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01 - How it works
No jargon, no setup.
Paste text and get an answer you can actually read, on either side of the border.
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We detect the system
DLS, NTS, Ontario lots and concessions, Manitoba river & parish lots, and US PLSS, automatically on both sides of the border. Texas GLO coming soon.
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Map + plain English
See the parcel on a map and read what it means. Open the interactive version in Township Canada or America to measure and export.
02 - Every survey system
One decoder for the whole continent.
Each system links to a full plain-English explainer.
DLS🇨🇦 AB · SK · MB · BC
Dominion Land Survey
The quarter-section township grid used across the Prairies and the BC Peace.
NTS🇨🇦 British Columbia
National Topographic System
The map-sheet grid used to describe land throughout British Columbia.
LOT/CON🇨🇦 Ontario
Geographic Townships
Ontario's lot-and-concession system within named geographic townships.
RIVER🇨🇦 Manitoba
River & Parish Lots
Historic riverfront and parish lots along Manitoba's Red and Assiniboine rivers (RL-, PL- coded forms).
PLSS🇺🇸 30+ states
Public Land Survey System
Township, range and section across 30+ states and 37 principal meridians.
TXSoon
Texas GLO Survey
GLO abstract and Panhandle block/section grid. Coming soon to the decoder.
03 - Built on two specialist tools
This decoder is the front door.
For interactive maps, batch processing, navigation and export, you go to the product for your country.
001 / Canada
Township Canada
DLS · NTS · Ontario · River & Parish Lots
DLS, NTS, Ontario lots and concessions, and Manitoba river & parish lots — mapped to coordinates where the survey fields allow, with interactive maps, batch tools, mobile apps and an API.
Visit townshipcanada.com002 / United States
Township America
PLSS · 30+ states
US PLSS across 30+ states and 37 principal meridians, with coordinates, interactive maps, batch processing and a developer API. Texas GLO coming soon.
Visit townshipamerica.com