Crown Land API for Canada
Crown land boundaries for Canada — public land with designation and classification, in English and French, with pre-computed GeoJSON for fast viewport queries.
Public land, mapped and classified.
- Crown land boundaries with pre-computed GeoJSON
- Designation and classification in English and French
- Pre-joined location hierarchy arrays
- Viewport queries served from cached geometry
Query by
- By coordinate
- By address
- By bounding box
What the Crown Land dataset gives your team.
Know what's public
Resolve whether land is crown/public, and how it's designated.
Bilingual by default
English and French names, designations and categories on every record.
Map-ready & fast
Pre-computed GeoJSON and pre-joined hierarchy keep queries quick.
Use cases.
A few of the things teams build on Crown Land data.
Outdoor & recreation
Show accessible public land near a location.
Land-use & planning
Overlay crown land with other spatial layers.
Real estate context
Flag adjacent or nearby public land on listings.
Conservation
Analyze designations and classifications by area.
See it in a request.
curl -H "Api-Key: $NEIGHBOURLY_KEY" \ "https://api.neighbourly.io/api/v1/locations/crown_land?viewport=%7B...%7D&includes_boundaries=true"
[
{
"id": 3390,
"name_eng": "Crown Reserve",
"desig_eng": "General Use Area",
"category_e": "Public",
"boundary_geojson": { "type": "MultiPolygon", "coordinates": [ ... ] }
}
]Crown Land API — common questions
What is crown land?
Crown land is public land owned by the government. The API provides crown land boundaries with designation and classification across Canada.
Is the crown land data bilingual?
Yes — names, designations and categories are provided in both English and French.
What format are crown land boundaries in?
Geometry with pre-computed GeoJSON, ready to render as a map overlay.
Can I query crown land by map viewport?
Yes — /crown_land takes a viewport and can return boundary geometry for the area in view.
Is crown land data Canada-wide?
Yes — coverage is Canada-wide, hosted in Canadian data centres.
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Build with the Crown Land API.
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